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Assessing UN Sanctions after the Cold War

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Date01 March 2010
AuthorKimberly Ann Elliott
Published date01 March 2010
DOI10.1177/002070201006500106
Subject MatterArticle
| International Journal | Winter 2009-10 | 85 |
Kimberly Ann Elliott is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
During the Cold War, the United Nations’ role in defending international
norms was constrained by US-Soviet rivalry. On the few occasions when
economic sanctions were invoked, they were usually hortatory and relatively
weak. With the end of the Cold War, UN sanctions initially became more
frequent, more likely to be mandated by the security council, and more
likely to be broad and painful. After a f‌lurry of comprehensive sanctions,
however, concerns were raised about the impact on vulnerable populations
within target countries, as well as on neighbouring countries and other
trading partners. UN sanctions since the mid-1990s have become both
less frequent and narrower, often targeting individuals, and have had more
limited economic, and perhaps political, impact.
What has been the impact of these shifts on the effectiveness of UN
economic sanctions? How is effectiveness measured and how have those
assessments changed? The starting point for measuring the effectiveness of
sanctions must be the nature of the goal sought, but the analysis must also
take into account the fact that there are usually secondary objectives and that
Kimberly Ann Elliott
Assessing UN
sanctions after the
Cold War
New and evolving standards of measurement

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