The most notorious question raised in the literature on coercive international sanctions is: "Do sanctions work?" Unsurprisingly, answers to such a sweeping question remain inconclusive. However, even coercive sanctions' widely presumed logic of economic impact translating into political pressure is not the primary driver of conflict developments. Furthermore, existing literature widely neglects one of the most striking differences across sanctions conflicts: the increasing occurrence of positive sanctions or their combination with negative sanctions, implicitly taking them as logically...