Tilahun, Nathanael (2023) The EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: between Self Help and Global Governance. International Community Law Review, 25 (1). pp. 3-35. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-bja10067
Tilahun, Nathanael (2023) The EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: between Self Help and Global Governance. International Community Law Review, 25 (1). pp. 3-35. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-bja10067
Tilahun, Nathanael (2023) The EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: between Self Help and Global Governance. International Community Law Review, 25 (1). pp. 3-35. DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-bja10067
Abstract
By adopting a Global Human Rights Sanctions regime, the European Union took a new step in leveraging its power to respond to human rights violations globally. The regime has a general scope, and targets both state and non-state actors. This paper shows that this regime occupies a tension zone between two competing approaches to sanctions: a self-help approach that perceives sanctions as deriving authority from states’ sovereignty and subservient to their foreign policy, and a global governance approach that views sanctions as deriving authority from and bound by the objectives of specific international legal regimes they enforce. The tension between these approaches comes into stark view when constructing the listing criteria and policy objectives of the sanctions, which determine the scope of targets and duration of measures. Whether and how subsequent practice resolves this tension will be determined by certain legislative and interpretive moves by the EU Council and Court.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | sanctions; EU foreign policy; human rights; self-interest; global governance; erga; omnes obligations |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2023 09:19 |
Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2025 16:03 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35670 |
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