The UN, Regional Sanctions and Africa

• Main Authors: CHARRON, Andrea, PORTELA, Clara
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: United Nations; sanctions; foreign relations; Africa; African Studies; International Relations; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1869; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3126/viewcontent/UNRegionalSanctionsAfrica_2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Africa is the continent most targeted by sanctions. During the Cold War, when the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was all but paralysed, the only sanctions regimes that the UN imposed were directed at countries located on the African continent: Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, penalized fo...