The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in implementation. Also there are now sanctions by new actors (regional bodies, international organizations). These all put new strains on international bodies in carrying out sanctions or getting member states to work together in these efforts. These challenges are analyzed in this volume, with some examples, but mostly from a generalist perspective. A completely novel aspect is that this volume also includes studies of the difficulties that are met by targeting actors, their way of managing the situations, and most interesting, the human rights of such actors.

Targeted sanctions have become an established practice in international relations since the end of the Cold War. Such sanctions - directed at certain leaders or concerning particular commodities or services - have been used by both international organizations and individual states. This book examines this new instrument of international diplomacy, and analyses what such sanctions require in terms of capacity building by the UN and by member states to be effective. It furthermore examines how the sanctions are used by new actors in international political affairs, notably the EU, African countries and the WTO. Finally, through a legal analysis and a study of individuals listed by the UN, the book highlights the new problems targeted sanctions give rise to, notably issues of human rights, and draws attention to the potential of incentives as part of an international sanctions strategy.
Contributors to this book include international scholars from social and legal sciences as well as practitioners from international organizations.
This timely book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of peacekeeping and conflict resolution, national and international policy makers and professionals in NGOs.