Understanding United Nations targeted sanctions: an empirical analysis

Giumelli, Francesco

doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12448

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“…Existing literatures have also analysed (the lack of) effectiveness of sanctions in reaching their stated goals (e.g. Giumelli, 2015).…”

Section: Transatlantic Payment Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finance/security infrastructures

Goede

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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This article starts from the premise that International Political Economy (IPE) literaturewith some notable exceptionshas a blind spot for the colonial and contested histories of financial infrastructures. Often considered to be the mere 'plumbing' of international finance, financial infrastructures instead are profoundly political and rooted in long-term colonial histories. To start addressing these blind spots, the article draws on literatures in critical infrastructure studies, that offer understandings of infrastructure as lively, contested and profoundly political. The argument is that attending to infrastructure inevitably brings into view the postcolonial nature of contemporary capitalism and finance. The article draws a parallel between the ways in which inequities and dis/connectivities became hard-wired into early modern financial infrastructures, and the ways in which new inequities and disconnections are hard-wired into present-day financial infrastructures through security sanctions. It uses the case of the contemporary payment infrastructure wars, whereby the SWIFT infrastructure is used to enforce sanctions policies, as example to develop the arguments.

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“…Existing literatures have also analysed (the lack of) effectiveness of sanctions in reaching their stated goals (e.g. Giumelli, 2015).…”

Section: Transatlantic Payment Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finance/security infrastructures

Goede

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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“…67 Since then, the UN has adopted a targeted approach to sanctions 68 with a special emphasis on individuals and non-state actors. 69 Targeting individuals created a new set of problems that had not been anticipated. Especially in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, but even more as a general principle, names were added to the 1267 list without special care for human rights and due process considerations.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Sanctions: From Comprehensive To Targetedmentioning

confidence: 99%

When states and individuals meet: The UN Ombudsperson as a ‘contact point’ between international and world society

Giumelli

Buranelli

2019

International Relations

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Interaction between individuals and states is considered a distinctive character of domestic politics, while international politics is the ‘realm of states’. However, it is becoming more common to encounter loci where both states and individuals interact at the international level, such as in the cases of the Special Tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Former Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the International Relations (IR) theory panorama, one would expect the English School of International Relations (ES) to have the theoretical and analytical tools to conceptualize synergies between states and individuals, but this is not evident. This article asks, how does the interaction between individuals and states take place in the ES? We argue that this interaction takes place via ‘contact points’, defined as those international bodies that bring together states and non-state actors, be they individuals or groups, interacting on equal grounds in terms of rights and responsibilities towards each other. The notion of ‘contact point’ is developed inductively by focusing on the Office of the Ombudsperson to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. This research has theoretical implications. We aim to refine, sharpen and advance both the ES’s theoretical and analytical architecture. The contribution we seek to make is one that will better equip ES scholars to conceptualize and analyse those secondary institutions that allow states and individuals to enjoy rights and duties equally. By so doing, we will make possible for the ES to provide a more fine-grained account for these synergies than other IR theories. The notion of ‘contact point’ does set a new agenda for the ES, since interactions between individuals and states are likely to become a constitutive essence of world politics.

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“…Thanks to the evolution of international norms-now allowing for individuals to be accountable before the international communitythe Security Council of the UN began to impose sanctions on individuals and non-state entities. 40 The practice of 'targeted sanctions' has also been widely adopted by the EU. 41 The EU imposes sanctions under three different legal regimes.…”

Section: Eu Sanctions In a Nutshellmentioning

confidence: 99%