European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why do they Work? / Edition 1

by Clara Portela

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415552165
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/07/2010
Series:	Routledge Advances in European Politics
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clara Portela is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University, Singapore. Her research interests focuses on foreign policy of the European Union, international security, sanctions and arms control and disarmament.

Table of Contents

List of tables x

Acknowledgements xi

Abbreviations xii

Introduction: why investigate the efficacy of EU sanctions and how to go about it xiii

1 Sanctions and their efficacy 1

2 EU sanctions: evolution, legal framework and policy 19

3 What determines the efficacy of EU sanctions? 35

4 The efficacy of sanctions imposed under the Common Foreign and Security Policy 55

5 The efficacy of 'informal' sanctions 102

6 The efficacy of development aid suspensions in the context of the partnership agreements between the EU and the African-Caribbean-Pacific Group 127

7 Withdrawal of trade privileges under the Generalized System of Preferences 148

8 Sanctions theory and the efficacy of EU sanctions: some fresh air coming into the sanctions debate 162

Annex I Overview of variables (dataset) 174

Annex II Truth table 176

Notes 177

Bibliography 179

Index 193