Criminalisation of sanctions violation

Jacob Öberg

Chapter 51 in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions, 2025, pp 173-176 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry examines the criminalisation of sanctions violations, which can be defined as the process of establishing breaches of international sanctions as criminal offences under domestic law. One of the key ideas behind criminalisation in this field is to deter individuals and companies from violating the relevant international sanctioning regime. Nonetheless, states around the world adopt very divergent approaches in relation to the extent to which they criminalise breaches of restrictive measures, thus potentially undermining the overall effectiveness of the sanctioning regime. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union (EU) has adopted a very comprehensive sanctioning regime against Russia, including a directive that criminalises the violation of EU restrictive measures. If viewed in terms of its communicative dimension, the criminalisation of sanctions violations can be considered an effective tool in achieving the specific foreign policy objectives of states and international organisations.

Keywords: International sanctions; Criminalisation; Russian invasion; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339525
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