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Reaching Diplomatic Agreement with Iran
The Success of Sanctions: Lessons Learned from the EU Experience
Falling Short: UN Security Council Delisting Procedural Reforms Before European Courts
March 2013 - European courts are challenging the domestic implementation of individually targeted UN anti-terrorism sanctions established by Security Council Resolution 1267. The Office of the Ombudsperson created by the Council in 2009 provides some legal rights for petitioners seeking to be delisted, but it does not meet the standard of ‘effective judicial protection’ established in European court rulings. This report examines the legal issues surrounding this issue and the implications for European compliance with UN targeted sanctions.
Getting Smarter About Sanctions
April 2012 - Faced with a global outcry against the cost in human suffering caused by comprehensive sanctions in the early 1900s, the UN Security Council began discussion of the potential of 'targeted' or 'smart' sanctions in 1993. After 1994, every case of Security Council sanctions fit this new format, aimed at applying pressure directly to decision-makers and political leaders while minimizing their impact on the global population. These sanctions were largely coercive in nature, and were perceived by a number of states as being cumbersome and punitive.
Friend not Foe: Opening Spaces for Civil Society Engagement to Prevent Violent Extremism
Integrating UN Sanctions for Peace and Security
Human Rights Standards for Targeted Sanctions
Putting Teeth in the Tiger: Improving the Effectiveness of Arms Embargoes
Oversight or Overlooked? Civil Society’s Role in Monitoring and Reforming Security Systems and the Practice of Counterterrorism
Enhancing the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Sanctions
The Smarter U.S. Option: A Full Summit with Iran
An Action Agenda for Enhancing the United Nations Program on Counter-Terrorism
The End Game: Removing Sanctions in Iraq
Contested Case: Do the Facts Justify the Case for War in Iraq?
Grading Iraqi Compliance
The Progress of UN Disarmament in Iraq: An Assessment Report
Sanctions, Inspections and Containment: Viable Policy Options in Iraq
Sanctions Sans Commitment: An Assessment of UN Arms Embargoes
April 2002 – Arms embargoes are the most frequently employed form of economic sanction and a potentially powerful instrument of UN peace- and security-building. By denying aggressors and human rights abusers the implements of war and repression, arms embargoes contribute…