Publication Type
Report
Version
Publisher’s Version
Publication Date
11-2014
Abstract
The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has notbeen accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which hasled to the formulation of suboptimal sanctions regimes. This paper argues for establishing apre-assessment and contingency planning of sanctions, departing from the ‘ad hoc-ism’ ofcurrent decision-making on sanctions. To this end, it proposes the development of a‘checklist’ composed of key questions that need to be tackled to optimise the design ofsanctions. These questions include the identification of resources linked to the objectionablepolicies; the leverage of the EU; the costs to the EU; the legality of the measures; theirunintended effects; the expected contribution towards EU goals; their coherence with overallEU external relations; and the communication of these policies.
Discipline
Eastern European Studies | European History
Research Areas
Political Science
Issue
95
First Page
1
Last Page
15
ISBN
9789461384263
Publisher
Centre for European Policy Studies
City or Country
Brussels
Citation
DE VRIES, Anthonius W.; PORTELA, Clara; and GUIJARRO-USOBIAGA, Borja.
Improving the effectiveness of sanctions: A checklist for the EU. (2014). 1-15.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research_all/12
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Additional URL
https://www.ceps.eu/publications/improving-effectiveness-sanctions-checklist-eu