Publications
Wei, Pei-Yu. "You’re the one I want: Substitutability, policy preference divergence, and the cost of multilateral sanctions." International Interactions (2025): 1-32.
Under Review
Power in the Middle: Alliance, History, and Diplomat Perceptions of International Agreements (with R. Dudley and D. Dulay) [Invited to Revise and Resubmit, Foreign Policy Analysis; previously circulated as: Trusty Friends? Alliance, History, and Diplomat Perceptions of International Agreements]
More Harm Than Good? The Effects of Sanctions on Different Aspects of Women's Rights (with K. Hunter)
Give and Take: The Impact of Foreign Aid Withdrawal on Women's Societal and Health Rights (with K. Hunter)
The Perceived Effectiveness of Diplomatic Foreign Policy Tools: Evidence from Diplomats in the Philippines (with R. Dudley and D. Dulay)
Gendered Perceptions and Preferences in Diplomatic Negotiations [Previously circulated as: Who Walks the Last Three Feet? Perceptions of Diplomats' Background and Their Desirability as Negotiation Partners] (with R. Dudley and D. Dulay)
Book Projects
The Price of Friendship: Third-Party States and the Costs of US Sanction Coalition Formation [Previously circulated as: Sanctions Without Intention: The Logic of Non-Enforcement in US Sanctions]
Geopolitics and the Critical Minerals Supply Chain (with K. Beardsley and C. Park) [Under contract with Cambridge University Press - Elements in Globalization and Supply Chains; see it as DCID working paper here]
Working Papers
Opening New Doors: The Geopolitical Cost of Third-Party States in Sanction Imposition
Evasive Maneuvers: Understanding the Cost of Sanction Evasion Using Nightlight Data
How Aid Sanctions Affect Funding for Local Actors in Aid-Recipient Countries (with K. Hunter and L. Right)
The Get Out of Jail Free Card: Third-Party States and the Non-Enforcement of Economic Sanctions
Check in the Dark: An Audit Experiment on Reward, Deterrence, and Duty in Corporate Sanction Risk Perceptions (with Z. Lu)
Brinkmanship in the Public Eye (with A. bin Oslan)
Works-in-Progress
Theory-Based Measurements for Varieties of Power Using a Novel Semi-Supervised Approach (with D. Siegel)
Strategic Ambivalence? An Exploratory Analysis of US Sanction Waivers
Firm-Level Experiment on Sanction Compliance and Supply Chain Partner Choice (with Z. Lu)
Domestic Support for Economic Sanctions: Legitimacy vs. Efficacy (with S.J. Lee)