Sanctions 101
Since everyone is talking about sanctions right now (vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war), let’s look at sanctions as a foreign policy tool, and how they have been used. And thus we take a brief look at sanctions, or ‘Sanctions 101’, as educators would have it. Under internatinal law, the only body that can impose sanctions is the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC). Sitting in a composition of 5 Permanent Members and 10 other non-Permanent Members, the UNSC is empowered by much-touted…
