Following the findings in our research on the impacts of sanctions on Iran and given that over one-third of the countries around the world are under some kind of U.S. economic sanctions, we began to broaden the scope of our inquiry. Economic sanctions are rarely studied in a systematic way with attention to their everyday lived realities. With support from the Wenner Gren Foundation and Open Society Foundation, Professor Narges Bajoghli (JHU SAIS and Rethinking Iran co-Director) and Professor Arzoo Osanloo (Princeton University), convened scholars from around the world to research the impact of sanctions across different locations. Through a series of conferences and workshops, this work has now led to the forthcoming book Besieged: Everyday Encounters with Economic Sanctions (Manchester University Press). Ethnographers take a deep dive into the impact of sanctions as quotidian reality in Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Nicaragua, North Korea, Palestine, South Africa, Sudan, and Venezuela.