Multilateral Sanctions Revisited: Lessons Learned from Margaret Doxey

by Andrea Charron (Editor), Clara Portela (Editor), Louise Fréchette (Foreword by)

Overview

Sanctions are back with a vengeance with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian visionary Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues, making now the time to rediscover her seminal lessons and apply them to emerging sanctions practices that are taking shape in an increasingly geopolitically contested environment.

Written by an international team of women, Multilateral Sanctions Revisited explores UN measures, regional sanctions, autonomous measures, and their interrelations. Informed by Doxey’s insights, the authors trace the evolution of scholarship surrounding multilateral sanctions. The first section analyzes how different actors, such as great powers and regional organizations, employ multilateral sanctions. Turning to contemporary issues, the book’s second section addresses the application and consequences of multilateral sanctions including the norms they enforce, the pernicious problem of evasion, and future challenges, such as sanctioning cryptocurrencies.

Multilateral Sanctions Revisited is both a source for academics and a guidebook for practitioners written by leading and emerging sanctions scholars from three continents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780228012610
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2022
Series:	McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Andrea Charron is associate professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba. Clara Portela is professor of political science at the University of Valencia.
Andrea Charron is associate professor of political studies and director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Clara Portela is professor of political science at the University of Valencia, Spain.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables vii

Foreword Louise Fréchette ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: Multilateral Sanctions Revisited - Lessons Learned from Margaret Doxey Andrea Charron Clara Portela 3

Part 1 Multilateral Sanctions in a Contested World

1 Multilateral Sanctions: An Overview Andrea Charron Clara Portela Sue Eckert 15

2 US Approaches to Multilateral Sanctions: Cooperation and Coercion Intertwined Kimberly Ann Elliott 34

3 Russia's Approaches to Multilateral Sanctions Anna Miromanova 51

4 China's Approach to Multilateral Sanctions Angela Poh 65

5 The European Approach to Multilateral Sanctions: Are EU Sanctions "Replacing" UN Sanctions? Clara Portela Katharina Meissner 81

6 The African Union in a World of Sanctions Elin Hellquist 99

Part 2 Key Contemporary Issues

7 Norms and Sanctions Jane Boulden 117

8 The Evolution of UN Arms Embargoes in Conflict Settings: Stumbling Blocks to Effective Implementation Judith Vorrath 133

9 Targeting Individuals: Weighing the "Economic Damage" and "Political Utility" of Sanctions Zuzana Hudáková 148

10 United Nations Sanctions: Through a Gender Lens Loraine Richard-Martin 163

11 More Civilian Pain than Political Gain (Again?): The Demise of Targeted Sanctions and Associated Humanitarian Impacts Erica Moret 177

12 The Art of Evasion in the Cyber Economy: Cyber-Hacking, Money Laundering, and North Korea's Evasion of Sanctions June Park 193

13 Mitigating Evasion of UN Sanctions: Africa as a Testing Ground Alix J. Boucher 207

14 UN Sanctions, the Ombudsperson, and Continuing Legal Challenges Larissa van den Herik 224

Conclusion: Multilateral Sanctions - Growing Complexity in a Contested World Andrea Charron Sue Eckert Clara Portela 239

Appendix: UN Security Council Sanctions (1990-2021) 247

Publications by Margaret Doxey on Multilateral Sanctions 253

Contributors 257

Index 261

Editorial Reviews

... expertly and comprehensively explained ... [this] book provides an authoritative guide to the use of multilateral sanctions and the UN’s central role in it. While the future of the UN and multilateral sanctions looks uncertain, this book provides an excellent guide to all aspects of its past and present.” International Affairs


"Cutting-edge considerations and scholarly insight … de facto make Multilateral Sanctions Revisited the new reference point in multilateral sanctions studies. Furthermore, as all the contributions(and even reviews) are made by female-only sanctions experts, this volume is … tangible proof of the successful path a once-solitary female voice helped shape for many subsequent female scholars in the discipline.” International Spectator


“Margaret Doxey (1975) wrote much of her influential work on sanctions in an era characterized by young international institutions, against the backdrop of the geopolitical tensions of the Cold War. The 16 women who contribute to [this book] honor Doxey's scholarship in a time of re-emerging global tensions. Contemporary sanctions are smarter than ever, but they fail to make up for the eroding moral legitimacy of measures imposed outside of the framework of the UN. Regardless of the reader's stand in the debate between respecting the consensus below the ceiling or pursuing higher norms above and beyond it, the inevitable consequence is that multiple unilateral sanctions can never be as effective as truly multilateral ones.” World Affairs


“This book utilizes and builds upon Margaret Doxey’s multilateral framework of analysis to provide a fresh and incisive overview of sanctions policy and the issues that will likely dominate the field in the years ahead. A thorough critical analysis of a wide range of sanctions-related issues.” David Cortright, University of Notre Dame and co-author of The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s


“This remarkably comprehensive volume distinguishes itself by not only focusing on multilateral sanctions but also addressing the topic with an issue-specific approach. The range and quality of this book, along with the necessary work it does in recognizing women scholars of sanctions, are first-rate.” George A. Lopez, University of Notre Dame and co-author of Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action

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