Targeted Sanctions
The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action

Systematically analyzes the impacts and the effectiveness of UN targeted sanctions over the past quarter century.

Thomas J. Biersteker (Edited by), Sue E. Eckert (Edited by), Marcos Tourinho (Edited by)

9781107134218, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 March 2016

422 pages, 4 b/w illus. 47 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.73 kg

'The book Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action constitutes essential reading for scholars and policymakers interested in understanding why the United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions, the factors affecting their success, and the myriad of externalities with which they are associated … Both scholars and policymakers who work on sanctions-related issues should read this book, as there is a lot to learn from the book and potentially a whole lot more to be learned from the data set it introduces.' Bryan R. Early, H-Diplo

International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of all the targeted sanctions regimes imposed by the United Nations since the end of the Cold War. Drawing on the collaboration of more than fifty scholars and policy practitioners from across the globe (the Targeted Sanctions Consortium), the book analyzes two new databases, one qualitative and one quantitative, to assess the different purposes of UN targeted sanctions, the Security Council dynamics behind their design, the relationship of sanctions with other policy instruments, implementation challenges, diverse impacts, unintended consequences, policy effectiveness, and institutional learning within the UN. The book is organized around comparisons across cases, rather than country case studies, and introduces two analytical innovations: case episodes within country sanctions regimes and systematic differentiation among different purposes of sanctions.

Introduction Sue Eckert, Thomas J. Biersteker and Marcos Tourinho
1. Thinking about United Nations targeted sanctions Thomas J. Biersteker, Marcos Tourinho and Sue Eckert
2. The purposes of targeted sanctions Francesco Giumelli
3. Security council dynamics and sanctions design Michael Brzoska and George A. Lopez
4. United Nations targeted sanctions and other policy tools: diplomacy, legal, use of force Paul Bentall
5. The relationship between United Nations sanctions and regional sanctions regimes Andrea Charron and Clara Portela
6. Coordination of United Nations sanctions with other actors and instruments Alix Boucher and Caty Clement
7. Implementation of United Nations targeted sanctions Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin
8. The impacts of United Nations targeted sanctions Kimberly Ann Elliott
9. The unintended consequences of United Nations targeted sanctions Mikael Eriksson
10. The effectiveness of United Nations targeted sanctions Thomas J. Biersteker, Marcos Tourinho and Sue Eckert
11. Institutional learning in targeting sanctions Peter Wallensteen
12. Conclusion Thomas J. Biersteker, Marcos Tourinho and Sue Eckert
Appendix I. List of cases and episodes
Appendix II. Sanctions effectiveness
Appendix III. TSC database codebook
Appendix IV. Targeted sanctions consortium (TSC) participants.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS]