This Article is being published in partnership with the Georgetown Journal of International Law and the Virginia Journal of International Law as part of the Consortium for Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS). The final...
This Article is being published in partnership with the Georgetown Journal of International Law and the Virginia Journal of International Law as part of the Consortium for Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS). The final...
This Article is being published in partnership with the Georgetown Journal of International Law and the Virginia Journal of International Law as part of the Consortium for Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS). The final...
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...