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International organisations often lack operational capacity, but may command significant normative power over states. By contrast, states have organs with significant ope[...]

Aid sanctions are a type of financial punishment imposed on a country by other countries or international organisations in response to a political coup, armed conflict, o[...]

This article examines the biases the two most important senders of economic sanctions, the European Union and the United States, frequently introduce into their coercive [...]

While economic sanctions may be attractive policy tools for governments wanting to express discontent with a country's behaviour, it is arguable if from an economic persp[...]

This article seeks to explore the reasons why sanctions for international humanitarian law (IHL) violations are so difficult to put into effect. Beyond the lack of willin[...]

In the light of geopolitical conflicts and instability, sanctions play an important role in the international economic policy debate - especially against countries such a[...]

For more than 30 years the codification of state responsibility has been the main task of the International Law Commission, which has placed greater emphasis on financial[...]