The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has not been accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which, argue the authors, has led to the formulation of suboptimal sanctions regimes. This paper proposes a practical...

Am 8.-9. Dezember 2007 werden sich beim EU-Afrika-Gipfel in Lissabon die Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union (EU) und Afrikas erstmals nach sieben Jahren wiedertreffen. Der Streit über die Teilnahme von Simbabwes Präsident Robert Mugabe wirft jedoch einen Schatten auf das bevorstehende...

The forthcoming Summit meeting between the European Union (EU) and Africa next December will be the first event of this kind in the past seven years. However, the row over the participation of Zimbabwe's President, Robert Mugabe, is casting a shadow over the upcoming event: A number of African...

The increasingly frequent imposition of sanctions by the EU over the past decade has not been accompanied by a thorough pre-assessment and contingency planning stage, which, argue the authors, has led to the formulation of suboptimal sanctions regimes. This paper proposes a practical...

This study analyses the use by the European Union of the novel concept of ‘targeted sanctions' in the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It examines two sets of sanctions regimes featuring different degrees of efficacy: in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, the EU wielded measures in...