1st Edition

Security Council Sanctions Governance The Power and Limits of Rules

By Thomas Dörfler Copyright 2019
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Little is known about how far-reaching decisions in UN Security Council sanctions committees are made. Developing a novel committee governance concept and using examples drawn from sanctions imposed on Iraq, Al-Qaida, Congo, Sudan and Iran, this book shows that Council members tend to follow the will of the powerful, whereas sanctions committee members often decide according to the rules. This is... Read more

Chapter 1 - Security Council Sanctions Governance: The Power and Limits of Rules Chapter 2 - Committee Governance, Rules and Precedents Chapter 3 - Security Council Sanctions Regimes: Complex Governance Entities Chapter 4 - Disarming Iraq – Governing Comprehensive Sanctions Under Siege Chapter 5 - Terrorist or Scapegoat? Targeted Sanctions and The Threat of Al-Qaida And the Taliban Chapter 6 - The Democratic Republic of The Congo – Targeted Sanctions and Civil War Chapter 7 - The Sudan – How the Committee Failed to Implement Targeted Sanctions Chapter 8 - The West Vs. Iran – Sanctions in The Context of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Chapter 9 - Conclusion: What Can We Learn from Committee Governance in The Security Council?

Biography

Thomas Dörfler holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bamberg, Germany, and a Master’s Degree from Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has been a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)-UNU Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the UNU Centre for Policy Research, a visiting scholar at John-Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York) and a consultant for the Security Council Affairs Division of the UN Secretariat. Most recently, he held a post-doctoral position at the Technical University Munich, Germany, TUM School of Governance and will shortly be taking up a research fellow position at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Thomas has published in academic journals including Regulation & Governance, Global Governance, Journal of International Relations and Development, Terrorism & Political Violence, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, as well as several chapters in edited volumes and policy-relevant articles. For his work on UN sanctions, he has received the 2018 Hans-Löwel-Prize and the 2017 Award of the UN Association of Germany.