Full Description
Global Perspectives on Sanctions explores why sanctions are contested by so many countries around the world. While most countries have declared their opposition to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, relatively few have taken any action to apply restrictive measures on Moscow. Is it because they do not share norms of non-intervention and opposition to the use of force, is it because they are protecting their self-interests, or is it because they oppose the self-appointed group of countries enacting sanctions, or do they object to the use of sanctions in general?
This edited collection investigates these issues by undertaking a multi-perspectivist, empirical and historically grounded set of analyses from Europe, North America, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Resistance to the use of sanctions is typically not based on opposition to global norms themselves, but how they are interpreted, by whom, and on the instruments themselves.
Contents
Introduction
Roberto Belloni, Thomas Biersteker, and Francesco Giumelli
1. Sanctions and Practices of Norm Contestation
Phil Orchard and Antje Wiener
2. The Delegitimation of International Sanctions
Stefano Palestini
3. Sanctions and International Order. Contestation in UNGA Debates 1946-2023
Elin Hellquist
4. Contesting Unilateral Sanctions through International Law
Alexandra Hofer
5. Blowing Hot against Sanctions: How African Leaders Seek to Redefine International Politics
John Agbonifo
6. Investigating the Grounds for Iran's Narrative Contestation of International Sanctions
Fariba Alikarami and Nasser Hadian Jazy
7. Unilateral Sanctions: China's Contestations and (De)legitimation Orientations
Wenjie Yu
8. BRICS Stand on Sanctions: An Evident Contestation
Rishika Chauhan
9. Contesting Sanctions: Mexican Foreign Policy in American Shadow
Maria-Cristina Rosas
10. Russia under Sanctions: The Case of a "Complex Contestation"
Intigam Mamedov and Piotr Dutkiewicz
11. Serbia and the Contestation of Sanctions Against Russia
Roberto Belloni and Jasmin Ramović
12. Why are ASEAN States not Sanctioning Russia? Sovereignty, Dependence or Vulnerability?
Matteo Dian
Conclusions: Global Perspectives on Sanctions: "Norm Contestation and its Impact on International Politics
Roberto Belloni, Thomas Biersteker, and Francesco Giumelli
