German Institute for Global and Area Studies | Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Cecilia Natalie Strom

Doctoral Researcher

Short CV

Since 05/2024: Doctoral Researcher at the GIGA
Since 10/2023: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
08/2022 – 09/2023 Intern and Research Assistant with the Violence and Impact Early Warning System (VIEWS) at Uppsala University
Education: MSc Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; BA Political Science, University of Leipzig and Tampereen Yliopisto

Current Research

Targeted Sanctions
Conflict Studies
Conflict and Public Health

Countries and Regions

Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Programmes

Peace and Security

Dissertation

Individual Targeted Sanctions Reconsidered: The Impact of Individual Sanctions on Elite Networks and Conflict Intensity

Cecilia Natalie Strom

Doctoral Researcher

T. +49 40 42825 515 cecilia-natalie.strom@giga-hamburg.de

Research Project | 01/06/2023 - 30/11/2025

Targeting: How the USA and EU Use Individual Sanctions

Individual sanctions have become a go-to instrument with which Western powers confront challenges to international peace and security. Shaping the trend of individualizing accountability, the USA and the EU as the main bilateral global sanction senders target individuals and entities to hold them accountable for the instigation of armed conflict, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, or the violation of human rights. INSA seeks to systematically analyze and compare the listing decisions of the USA and the EU.
Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF), 2023-2025

Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Peace and Security"

Cecilia Natalie Strom

Doctoral Researcher

Research Project | 01/06/2023 - 30/11/2025

Targeting: How the USA and EU Use Individual Sanctions

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Targeting - How the US and EU Use Individual Sanctions

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest (Speaker), Cecilia Natalie Strom (Speaker)

This paper analyzes the question: What conditions make it likely that particular individuals and/or entities are being listed by the US and the EU? We introduce a novel dataset on listings by the EU and US from 2021 to 2023 that are aggregated at the monthly level.