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This report provides an up-to-date, coercive sanctions strategy that the next US president might use to further the country’s national security interests. More specifically, the report recommends that the new administration should 1) labor to sustain a unified European position on applying sanctions against Russia; 2) support the Iranian nuclear deal while not letting the country’s recent provocations go unpunished; 3) launch a renewed multilateral effort to enforce North Korean sanctions; and 4) announce plans to overhaul the US sanctions system, to include improving multinational cooperation, working more closely with the private sector and more. The text’s authors also highlight the difficulties the next US administration will face in enforcing existing sanctions against Russia, the so-called Islamic State, Cuba, and North Korea.