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The Evolution of Security Council Innovations in Sanctions

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Published date01 March 2010
DOI10.1177/002070201006500103
AuthorJoanna Weschler
Date01 March 2010
Subject MatterArticle
| International Journal | Winter 2009-10 | 31 |
Joanna Weschler is director of research for Security Council Report.
Joanna Weschler
The evolution of
security council
innovations in
sanctions
The attitude of security council members toward sanctions has been fraught
with contradictions mixed, at times, with a strong dose of reluctance.
Looking at the employment of UN sanctions over the years and across cases,
however, one is struck by how much has been achieved, both in terms of
their impact and in terms of the development of council working methods
despite the undercurrent of political uneasiness and discord that has almost
always accompanied this issue within the council. This article outlines the
signif‌icant changes made to the design of sanctions regimes by the council
over the years and the processes and methods associated with the regimes
in order to present a clearer and more accurate assessment of the council’s
efforts to improve its working methods and procedures vis-à-vis sanctions.
EVOLUTION IN SANCTIONS REGIMES DESIGN
The security council has changed, fundamentally, its construction of sanctions
regimes since the early 1990s. After years of Cold War paralysis the council

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