Surveys short public struggle with introduction of sanctions (9)
I believe the answer is:
overviews
'surveys' is the definition.
(an overview is a survey or outline)
'short public struggle with introduction of sanctions' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'public' becomes 'overt' (both can mean well-known or unconcealed).
'struggle' becomes 'view' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'introduction of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'sanctions' is 's'.
'overt' with its final letter taken away is 'over'.
'over'+'view'+'s'='OVERVIEWS'
Can you help me to learn more?