United Nations

Andrea Charron and Lindsay Speirs

Chapter 15 in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions, 2025, pp 53-57 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mandatory United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions are the coercive tool of choice to deal with conflicts and other threats to international peace in the world. The UNSC has applied 31 mandatory sanctions regimes since 1966 according to the UN. The rate of application peaked in the 1990s largely to deal with civil wars in Africa which continue to be the most likely scenario to be sanctioned. The UNSC has been inventive in the types of measures applied and the methods for monitoring and verifying sanctions, but the unintended humanitarian consequences continue to be a challenge. National and international legal processes question the overreach of the UNSC in its sanctioning practices. To date, however, the legitimacy of mandatory UNSC sanctions as the apex of sanctions measures holds. The effectiveness of sanctions continues to seize the academic world, but an incipient agenda is taking shape, focusing on the rationale for UNSC selectivity, the replacement of multilateral sanctions with G7 coordinated measures in cases for which there is no agreement to sanction at the UNSC and the effects of overlapping multilateral and autonomous sanctions regimes.

Keywords: UNSC; Article 41; Targeted sanctions; Comprehensive sanctions; Sanctions; Decade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339525
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