Category: Symposia

E. Tendayi Achiume I am grateful to YJIL and LPE for creating a platform for this discussion, which encourages reflection on a topic that is urgent but often treated as marginal. The existing body...

Aslı Ü. Bâli Sanctions are best understood as an instrument in the postcolonial arsenal of economic statecraft. This tool, the epitome of an international legal order that legitimates economic coercion, is disproportionately available to...

Joy Gordon It is common to hear a certain set of claims about economic sanctions: if all the right conditions are present, sanctions can be an effective tool of global governance and foreign policy. ...

Eva Nanopoulos International law generally views sanctions as coercive but ultimately peaceful instruments of international politics. Indeed, despite attempts by the Global South to outlaw economic coercion during the drafting of the UN Charter,...

Vasuki Nesiah The origin myth of our discipline is situated in the transition from the thirty-year war to the peace of Westphalia, from the insecurity of the state of nature to the peace of...

Nathanael Tilahun & Obiora Okafor The story of the contemporary economic sanctions regime looks like a re-run of the long journey of international law toward humane war (Meron, 2000; Moyn, 2021). Despite their portrayal...

Ntina Tzouvala The psychotherapist Adam Phillips has suggested that repeated failure in doing something might actually be a success in doing something else—something that we might not want to acknowledge or articulate. This is a useful...

Michael Fakhri That unilateral coercive measures are an ineffective international policy tool has been known for decades. Unilateral measures, usually in the form of blockades or economic sanctions, are deployed with the intent to...

Maryam Jamshidi Since the end of World War II, financial imperialism—which focuses on economically coercing and controlling state and non-state actors—has been the dominant brand of imperialism. And the United States has been its...

Jessica Whyte In February 2020, Venezuela submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that the economic sanctions imposed on it by the United States constituted a crime against humanity. Although Venezuela...