Negotiating International Public Policy through the Adoption and Contestation of Sanctions
Journal: Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
Year: 2017

Sanctions are commonly understood as a means to enforce international law in the global order.In legal doctrine, the focus is generally on these measures' coercive purpose.Nevertheless, sanctions can serve other policy objectives.Of particular relevance for the international legal order is a sanction's stigmatization function.In this case, states and regional, or international, organizations adopt sanctions in reaction to behaviour that breaches an international norm in order to signal their com