European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy

European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy
Author: Clara Portela
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0415552168

This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) against countries from the early 1990s to present day.

European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy

European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy
Author: Clara Portela
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136941819

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011. Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ability to bring about the desired outcome. While the principal sanctions activity of the EU takes place under the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the author also considers the suspension of development aid under the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, the withdrawal of trade privileges under the Generalized System of Preferences and other sanctions outside these frameworks. Reviewing the sanctions practice of the EU in its virtual entirety, Portela assesses the relevance of classical sanctions theory by testing a series of hypotheses with empirical case-studies attempting to identify the determinants of success of EU sanctions. Enhancing our understanding of the EU's international role, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, security studies, EU studies, human rights and democracy, conflict management, IPE and development studies.

The Foreign Policy of the European Union

The Foreign Policy of the European Union
Author: Federiga M. Bindi
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0815722524

"Explores European foreign policy and the degree of European Union success in proposing itself as a valid international actor, drawing from the expertise of scholars and practitioners in many disciplines. Addresses issues past and present, theoretical and practice-oriented, and country- and region-specific"-- Provided by publisher.

Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis

Europe and Iran’s Nuclear Crisis
Author: Riccardo Alcaro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319742981

This book investigates the European involvement in managing the nuclear dispute with Iran, shedding new light on EU foreign policy-making. The author focuses on the peculiar format through which the EU managed Iran’s nuclear issue: a ‘lead group’ consisting of France, Germany and the UK and the High Representative for EU foreign policy (E3/EU). The experience of the E3/EU lends credibility to the claim that lead groups give EU foreign policy direction and substance. The E3/EU set up a negotiating framework that worked as a de-escalating tool, a catalyst for Security Council unity and a forum for crisis management. They inflicted pain on Iran by adopting a comprehensive sanctions regime, but did so only having secured US commitment to a diplomatic solution. Once the deal was reached, they defended it vigorously. The E3/EU may have been supporting actors, but their achievements were real.

Targeted Sanctions

Targeted Sanctions
Author: Thomas J. Biersteker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107134218

Systematically analyzes the impacts and the effectiveness of UN targeted sanctions over the past quarter century.

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy
Author: Michael E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521538619

The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.

How EU Sanctions Work

How EU Sanctions Work
Author: Francesco Giumelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2013
Genre: Economic sanctions, European
ISBN:

The European Union has devoted growing attention to sanctions since the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty. In total, the Council has imposed Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) sanctions targeting countries, economic sectors, groups, individuals and entities on 27 different occasions. The novelty in the area of sanctions is that targets are not only states, as in the recent cases of Iran and Syria, but they are also individuals and non-state entities, e.g. anti-terrorist lists, President Robert Mugabe and his associates, and several companies connected with the military junta in Burma/Myanmar. Additionally, the contexts in which sanctions are utilised can be diverse, ranging from the protection of human rights to crisis management and non-proliferation. Despite the fact that the effectiveness of sanctions has been much debated, the EU has developed a sanctioning policy and intensified its adoption of sanctions. Sanctions were traditionally seen as a way to impose economic penalties as a means of extracting political concessions from targets, but EU sanctions do not always impose a cost nor do they always seek to induce behavioural change. To this extent, a new narrative may be needed.

The Success of Sanctions

The Success of Sanctions
Author: Francesco Giumelli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317014650

The effectiveness of sanctions cannot purely be measured by the way they change the behaviour of their intended target. The degree to which sanctions constrain a rogue state's behaviour and the signals they send to future targets should also be prime considerations. In this thought provoking book Francesco Giumelli measures the true effectiveness of EU sanctions against a range of states including Belarus, Zimbabwe, Moldova, Uzbekistan, the USA and China. He demonstrates that focussing purely on behavioural change is limiting, especially when considering the actions and motivations of an international organisation, and develops a process to evaluate the direct and indirect impact of EU sanctions. Giumelli demonstrates the many different ways sanctions have been used by the EU to produce positive direct and indirect results and provides a multi-level framework to assess the success of sanctions in the future.

European Foreign and Security Policy

European Foreign and Security Policy
Author: Catherine Gegout
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442610344

The first book to offer a theory explaining European Union decision-making in foreign and security policies, European Foreign and Security Policy also provides a detailed and practical analysis of how the Common Foreign and Security Policy really works, before and since the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. `Decision-making in the European Union is a process often characterized by obscurity and complexity. In European Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Gegout explains, with a high degree of clarity, the real-world mechanisms by which agreements are reached among members.'

The European Union – A Global Actor?

The European Union – A Global Actor?
Author: Sven Bernhard Gareis
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 386649520X

Is the European Union a unified actor in world politics? The world’s leading economic power is still struggling to find its role in shaping and maintaining global peace, free trade and commerce. How successful is the EU ́s Common Foreign and Security Policy and its institutions really?