UN Sanctions and Conflict

This book examines the UN Security Council's experience with sanctions since the Cold War, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for particular types of conflict.From the Cold War, with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, to the post-9/11 era, with Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, and Eritrea, sanctions have been a key tool of the UN Security Council's efforts to deal with conflict. The focus of this study is the UN Security Council and the sanctions regimes they adopt given a particular type of conflict. The goal of the book is twofold: first, to track and establish the wide-ranging sanctions measures applied by the UN Security Council, and second, to explicate and examine the objectives sought, the targets chosen and the measures applied given a particular type of conflict. The rationale for publishing such a book is that the number of sanctions regimes warrants an analysis in toto.The question of sanctions application is approached by classifying all 29 mandatory Security Council sanctions regimes into four conflict types: (1) interstate; (2) intrastate; (3) international norm-breaking states; and (4) nonstate support to terrorism. All of the sanctions regimes within each conflict type are analysed for: i) the objectives sought by the Council through the application of sanctions measures; ii) the targets chosen, and iii) what measures are applied and in what sequence compared to other Security Council tools (such as peacekeeping missions or peace negotiations). This analysis sheds new light on how the Security Council approaches international peace and security beyond the application of force.This book will be of much interest to students of international organisations, peace and conflict studies, conflict resolution, security studies and IR/politics in general.