Author : Matt Herbert
Release : 2023
Genre : Economic sanctions
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Convergence Zone by : Matt Herbert

Download or read book Convergence Zone written by Matt Herbert. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite this growing use, there has been limited tracing of why and how different international actors have converged in their use of targeted sanctions, how they have developed processes to issue and implement sanctions regimes and their impact and effectiveness. This report addresses the first two issues. The report begins by briefly detailing what targeted sanctions are and how they link to the longer history of sanctions as a foreign policy tool. The second section looks at the evolution of the US’s unilateral sanctions programmes and processes, which are rooted in a national security rationale. The third describes the evolution of the UN’s approaches to sanctioning criminal actors, which derive from concerns about the nexus between conflict and crime and the complicated political process of designation. The fourth section sets out how the EU and the UK are shifting their use of sanctions to target organized criminal actors, primarily based on thematic concerns around human rights, corruption and peace and conflict, and the process challenges these new sanctions regimes face. The report ends with a brief conclusion and recommendations.