ملخص
This article uses the Targeted Sanctions Consortium data set to examine negative externalities of UN sanctions. The authors characterized negative externalities (or unintended consequences) as focusing on five dimensions: (1) increases in corruption and/or criminality, (2) strengthened authoritarian rule, (3) increases in human rights violations, (4) humanitarian consequences, and (5) erosion of local institutional capacities.
Across all UN sanctions episodes included in the TSC data, unintended consequences are a significant phenomenon. In total, 94 percent of sanctions episodes entail unintended consequences of one form or another.