The Evolution of UN Sanctions

Includes discussions on the often forgotten but essential humanitarian intentions of today's coercive, but non-violent regimes adopted regularly by the UN Security Council
Highlights the historic undercurrents that helped to displace some armed aggression and economic warfare with UN sanctions
Covers the misconceptions and pretenses that confuse so many in today's policy decision making circles and academia who seem unaware of past trials and errors, and who measure the performance of UN sanctions only against the most advanced Western concepts of humanitarianism rather than against sustainable and truly multilateral approaches

Auteur

Enrico Carisch is a partner in Compliance and Capacity Skills International, LLC. He served as a member of several United Nations groups of experts, was engaged by African and European States and organizations to assist in the strengthening of the management of conflict-sensitive natural resource revenues, and frequently collaborates with international companies, international organizations and academic institutions on improved sanctions compliance measures, services and technologies.

Loraine Rickard-Martin is a partner in Compliance and Capacity Skills International, LLC. She was a sanctions committee secretary and a senior political affairs officer in the Security Council Affairs Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs from 1995 to 2009, a lecturer in United Nations sanctions at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 2010 to 2013, and Secretary of the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change from 2003 to 2004.

Shawna Meister is an independent researcher and analyst of international peace and security issues. She has written publications on various subjects including analyses of the effectiveness of sanctions, UN and regional peacekeeping missions, and the UN Peacebuilding Commission. Her research interests have recently broadened to the impact of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the UN system. As a Research Associate for a non-profit organization in Ottawa, Canada, she manages projects, conducts qualitative and quantitative analyses, and works with practitioners and the public to help them transform research into practical applications.

Contenu
Introduction.- Part I: Evolution of UN Sanctions Policies.- Sanctions Reinvented.- Creating the UN Security Council & its Sanctions System.- Designing and Applying Chapter VII of the UN Charter.- Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).- Part II: Smarter Sanctions Against Asymmetric Threats.- From Comprehensive to Smart and Fairer Sanctions.- Backlash Against the Backlash.- UN Sanctions Measures.- Commodity Sanctions.- Emerging Threats and Sanctions.- Part III: Summaries of UN Sanctions Regimes.- Comprehensive Sanctions - Southern Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa.- Humanitarian Collateral Costs: From Iraq to Yugoslavia to Haiti.- Asymmetric Forces in Africa.- The Spread of Terrorism: Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan/Taliban, Al-Quaeda, and ISIL.- Back to the Future: Libya and the non-proliferation cases of Iran and North Korea.- Conclusion.