The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness

This study analyses the use by the European Union of the novel concept of ‘targeted sanctions’ in the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It examines two sets of sanctions regimes featuring different degrees of efficacy: in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, the EU wielded measures in support of...

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Main Author: PORTELA, Clara
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-29292017-08-22T06:32:50Z The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness PORTELA, Clara This study analyses the use by the European Union of the novel concept of ‘targeted sanctions’ in the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It examines two sets of sanctions regimes featuring different degrees of efficacy: in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, the EU wielded measures in support of human rights and democracy objectives in the absence of a United Nations mandate, while it supplemented UN sanctions to stop nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea. The study highlights a number of facilitators of, or hindrances to, the efficacy of sanctions, such as the degree of support by regional powers or the presence of UN legitimation. It concludes that the EU sanctions regimes could be optimised by using more robust measures, designing them on the basis of ex ante assessments, enabling faster upgrades, monitoring their impact and adjusting them regularly and improving outreach efforts. 2014-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1672 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2929/viewcontent/EU_Targeted_Sanctions_Evaluating_effecti.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Political Science
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PORTELA, Clara
The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
description This study analyses the use by the European Union of the novel concept of ‘targeted sanctions’ in the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It examines two sets of sanctions regimes featuring different degrees of efficacy: in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, the EU wielded measures in support of human rights and democracy objectives in the absence of a United Nations mandate, while it supplemented UN sanctions to stop nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea. The study highlights a number of facilitators of, or hindrances to, the efficacy of sanctions, such as the degree of support by regional powers or the presence of UN legitimation. It concludes that the EU sanctions regimes could be optimised by using more robust measures, designing them on the basis of ex ante assessments, enabling faster upgrades, monitoring their impact and adjusting them regularly and improving outreach efforts.
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author PORTELA, Clara
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title The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
title_short The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
title_full The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
title_fullStr The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
title_full_unstemmed The EU's Use of Targeted Sanctions: Evaluating Effectiveness
title_sort eu's use of targeted sanctions: evaluating effectiveness
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2014
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1672
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2929/viewcontent/EU_Targeted_Sanctions_Evaluating_effecti.pdf
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