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Are EU restrictive measures really targeted, temporary and preventive? The case of Belarus

Miadzvetskaya, Y.; Challet, C.; (2022) Are EU restrictive measures really targeted, temporary and preventive? The case of Belarus. Europe and the World: A law review , 6 (1) pp. 1-20. 10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2022.03. Green open access

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Abstract

Questions related to the EU’s ability to foster change in the behaviour of third countries through sanctions have gained salience over the past three decades. This article explores how the nature and type of EU restrictive measures, initially conceived as targeted, preventive and temporary measures, have evolved considerably since then. The EU sanctions against Belarus are used as an illustrative case study in order to shed light on the evolutions within the EU’s sanctions practice. This article first examines the erosion of the targeted character of EU sanctions against Belarus through the broadening of listing criteria and the increasing recourse to sectoral sanctions. It then questions the temporary character of EU sanctions against Belarus by highlighting their indefinite duration and cyclicity. Last but not least, it is argued that EU sanctions against Belarus have an increasingly punitive character. The article concludes with an analysis of the implications that the EU’s evolving sanctions practice can have for the current EU’s sanctions policy toward Belarus as well as for its other sanctions regimes.

Type: Article
Title: Are EU restrictive measures really targeted, temporary and preventive? The case of Belarus
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2022.03
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2022.03
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022, Yuliya Miadzvetskaya and Celia Challet. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Belarus, common foreign and security policy, targeted restrictive measures, sectoral economic sanctions, punitive measures
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154645
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