Résumé
Unilateral sanctions have become part of life in international relations. But there is no comprehensive treaty regulating the activities of states in this area. That said, there is an assortment of hard and soft law instruments in international law as well as the extant and emerging rules of customary international law, all seeking to fill this legal vacuum. However, no focused and comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of unilateral sanctions and of the principles of international law that would be applicable to such sanctions has yet been conducted. It is in this context that this chapter seeks to examine the nature and scope of unilateral sanctions, contemporary practice of states in this area and the provisions of both soft and hard law instruments as well as the rules of customary international law concerning unilateral sanctions, with a view to deducing and identifying the rules of...