United Nations Sanctions Regimes and Selective Security

Name: United Nations Sanctions Regimes and Selective Security
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781032601335
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Author: Thomas Kruiper
ISBN: 9781032601335

By Thomas Kruiper

Routledge September 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781032601335
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: September 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book investigates the selective nature of UN sanctions regimes with a specific focus on the post-Cold War era. Legally binding on all members UN sanctions are the most effective and legitimate non-violent multilateral tools to respond to international security threats, symbolically more powerful than unilateral or multilateral sanctions because they enjoy global support. However, since 1990, dozens of threats to international peace were met with sanctions, but many others were not. How can we explain this incoherent approach? With a focus on the selectiveness, rather than effectiveness of UN sanctions the author reflects on the shifting geopolitical tensions between Security Council members and uses a variety of widely used academic datasets to provide a unique overview of what determines sanctions and sanctionable events. The primary audience will be scholars and students of international relations, international organization, security studies and political economy.

Acknowledgments; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 – Introduction: United Nations Sanctions and Selective Security; The Selective Nature of UN Sanctions; After After Hegemony; Chapter 2 – A History of Sanctions and Selectivity; Sanctions and the League of Nations; UN Sanctions and the Cold War (1945-1989); UN Sanctions Since 1990 – The Sanctions Decades; Contemporary UN Sanctions – More Targeted, Less Regimes; Chapter 3 – Presenting the Sanctionable Events Dataset: 1990 – 2022; Sanctions and Datasets; Sanctions and Norms; Sanctionable Events: 1990 – 2022; Proxies for Selectivity; Chapter 4 – Nuclear Proliferation and Selective UN Sanctions; Defining the Event; Nuclear proliferators before 1990; Nuclear Proliferators after 1990; Conclusions; Chapter 5 – Interstate Wars and Selective UN Sanctions; Defining the Event; A History of Interstate War and UN Responses; Interstate Wars and UN Sanctions Since 1990; Conclusions; Chapter 6 - Civil War and Selective UN Sanctions; Defining the Event; Selectivity in Time; Selectivity in Space; Governments vs. non-State Armed Groups; 4.
Hypotheses for Selectivity: Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis; A Shift in Selectivity: From Libya to Syria; Conclusions; Chapter 7 – Terrorism and Selective UN Sanctions; Defining the Event; State-Sponsored Terrorism and UN Sanctions since 1990; Al-Qaida and the War on Terror; UN Sanctions and on the War on Terror; Terrorism and Selective UN Sanctions; Conclusions; Chapter 8 – Coups d’état and Selective UN Sanctions; Defining the Event; A history of the offence - Coups d’état since 1946; Coups d’état and Selective UN Sanctions; Six Short Case Studies; Conclusions; Chapter 9 – Conclusions: United Nations Sanctions and Selective Security; United Nations Sanctions and Selective Security; Index