Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2016
Abstract
The emergence of targeted sanctions in the mid-1990s was due to the humanitarian impact of embargoes, which were deemed unacceptable and compelled senders to shift to measures designed to affect only wrongdoers. Twenty years on, the present paper considers the extent to which autonomous sanctions are designed to affect those individuals and elites responsible for the behaviour the EU aims to condemn. How faithful has the EU remained to this concept in its sanctions policy? The enquiry scrutinizes diverse practices in three established sanctions strands of the EU, development aid suspensions, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) sanctions and Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) withdrawals. It shows that it has been more faithfully implemented in some strands of EU sanctions than in others. Specifically in the flagship CFSP sanctions practice, the due process motivated court challenges of its blacklists have led the EU to modify selection criteria in a way that renders them potentially less targeted.
Discipline
Eastern European Studies | International Relations | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Volume
29
Issue
3
First Page
912
Last Page
929
ISSN
0955-7571
Identifier
10.1080/09557571.2016.1231660
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Citation
PORTELA, Clara.(2016). Are European Union sanctions “targeted”?. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29(3), 912-929.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2123
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2016.1231660