Francesco Giumelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 389371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Giumelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Giumelli |
| SIGNATURE | GIUMELLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5101-7254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the role of cryptocurrencies in sanctions evasion: A systematic review
Governing through guesstimates: Mock Precision in International Organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statistics frequently represent ‘guesstimates’ rather than solid measures. Nonetheless, they are often presented as if they were perfectly reliable, precise estimates. What drives IOs to disseminate guesstimates and why are they frequently presented with seem…
Compensating the Social Harm of Illicit Trade by Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets: Opportunities and Side Constraints
Various forms of illicit trade, such as drug trafficking, trading in counterfeit products, wildlife trafficking, and cigarette smuggling, can have a significant impact on local communities and cause a deterioration in the living environment, undermine institutional structures, and increase violent conflicts between and within social groups. This social harm is real, albeit difficult to gauge and compensate, as traditional procedures focus on indi…
The European Defence Fund precursor programmes and the state of the European market for defence
The fragmentation of the European defence market hampers the establishment of a unified European defence. The European Union (EU) has implemented initiatives like the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, Permanent Structured Cooperation, and the European Defence Fund (EDF) to address this issue. However, a comprehensive understanding of the European defence market and its consolidation, which is essential for evaluating these programs, remains i…
Sources of strength: The European defence industry in a disorderly world
This essay by the editors is the Preface of the special Issue on the European defence industry. It summarises all the articles contained in the special Issue, the rationale for such research and the principal conclusions of said research project
United in Diversity? A Study on the Implementation of Sanctions in the European Union
The implementation of European Union (EU) policies has been investigated for several policy areas, but Decisions made under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) have rarely been considered. While many CFSP measures are applicable throughout the EU without the need for further action on the domestic level, some Decisions must be implemented by Council Regulations. These Council Regulations adopted with the intent to implement CFSP Decisio…
UN Sanctions as Leverage in Mediation Processes: An Anatomy of Missed Opportunities in South Sudan
This article analyzes the role of UN sanctions in the context of peace negotiations in South Sudan from the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013 until the signing of the peace agreement in August 2015. Drawing on the literature regarding third-party intervention in civil wars, it explores whether the UN sanctions regime—established in March 2015—was conceived as an instrument of leverage to get the parties to agree to a settlement. The arti…
Multilateralism in Peril: The Uneasy Triangle of the US, China and the EU
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure
There is growing debate over whether applications of blockchain and other financial technologies (‘fintechs’) reinforce forms of neo-colonial extraction that perpetuate North–South inequities or help enact decolonial ambitions across the Global South. This paper expands such discussions and contributes to this special issue on ‘fintech in Africa’ by situating emerging African blockchain techno-experimentation within wider international infrastruc…
States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands
While the current practice of the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the United States leans towards imposing only targeted sanctions in most of the cases, private actors often complain about inability to process financial transactions, ship goods, or deliver services in countries where sanctions targets are located. The impact of sanctions often ends up being widespread and indiscriminate because sanctions are implemented b…
When states and individuals meet: The UN Ombudsperson as a 'contact point' between international and world society
Interaction between individuals and states is considered a distinctive character of domestic politics, while international politics is the 'realm of states'. However, it is becoming more common to encounter loci where both states and individuals interact at the international level, such as in the cases of the Special Tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Former Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the…
The Redistributive Impact of Restrictive Measures on EU Members: Winners and Losers from Imposing Sanctions on Russia
EU sanctions on Russia created concerns among its members. It is well known that sanctions impose a cost on their targets as well as on the senders, as lamented by European governments, but the costs of EU sanctions on its members have not been fully explored. This article intends to fill this gap by looking at the cost of EU sanctions on Russia. Who is bearing the cost among EU countries? This article argues that sanctions had a redistributive i…
Trade agreements and labour standards clauses: Explaining labour standards developments through a qualitative comparative analysis of US free trade agreements
Whereas a number of studies have been conducted to investigate causal relations between individual conditions (e.g. trade relations and labour standards), there is a lack of consensus among practitioners and scholars about the conditions that favour or cause labour standards improvements and, specifically, it is still unclear whether the increasing pervasiveness of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) is conducive to enhancing labour conditions. The aim …
Introduction: The United Nations and targeted sanctions
Mandatory United Nation (UN) sanctions imposed against Iraq, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Haiti in the 1990s gave rise to strong criticisms because of their comprehensive nature and the harm inflicted on innocent civilians. Chastened, the international community, led by like-minded, mainly western states, reformed the instrument of sanctions and adopted ‘targeted sanctions’—measures designed to address the peace spoilers but limit damag…
Understanding United Nations targeted sanctions: An Empirical Analysis
Nations sanctions have undergone profound transformations in the past two decades. In 1990, the Security Council (UNSC) imposed a general, comprehensive embargo on trade with Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. In 2015 the UN has 16 sanctions committees, managing regimes that have little in common with the one imposed against Iraq a quarter of a century ago. The sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990 covered all goods entering or leaving the entire cou…
Normative Power under Contract? Commercial Support to European Crisis Management Operations
The increasing privatization of military and stability operations has received considerable scholarly attention. Existing scholarship, however, has largely focused on the privatization of state foreign policy, overlooking the empirical analysis of international organizations' use of commercial actors in the conduct of crisis management operations. The present study fills this gap by investigating the role of commercial contractors in supporting E…
Introduction - EU Security Governance: From Processes to Policies
The recent developments in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) show a growing synergy between national, transnational and supranational levels where a wide range of actors cooperate
Beyond Intergovernmentalism: The Europeanization of Restrictive Measures
The functioning of the European Union (EU) has been explored extensively in recent years. The dominant prism through which to look at the EU is still one of locus: i.e. whether decisions are made in the capitals of its member states or in Brussels. This debate is contained in the dualism between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism, but drawing the boundaries between the two concepts is still undone. This article attempts to contribute to so…
The Redistributive Impact of Restrictive Measures on EU Members: Winners and Losers from Imposing Sanctions on Russia
EU sanctions on Russia created concerns among its members. It is well known that sanctions impose a cost on their targets as well as on the senders, as lamented by European governments, but the costs of EU sanctions on its members have not been fully explored. This article intends to fill this gap by looking at the cost of EU sanctions on Russia. Who is bearing the cost among EU countries? This article argues that sanctions had a redistributive i…
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure
There is growing debate over whether applications of blockchain and other financial technologies (‘fintechs’) reinforce forms of neo-colonial extraction that perpetuate North–South inequities or help enact decolonial ambitions across the Global South. This paper expands such discussions and contributes to this special issue on ‘fintech in Africa’ by situating emerging African blockchain techno-experimentation within wider international infrastruc…
Trade agreements and labour standards clauses: Explaining labour standards developments through a qualitative comparative analysis of US free trade agreements
Whereas a number of studies have been conducted to investigate causal relations between individual conditions (e.g. trade relations and labour standards), there is a lack of consensus among practitioners and scholars about the conditions that favour or cause labour standards improvements and, specifically, it is still unclear whether the increasing pervasiveness of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) is conducive to enhancing labour conditions. The aim …
Normative Power under Contract? Commercial Support to European Crisis Management Operations
The increasing privatization of military and stability operations has received considerable scholarly attention. Existing scholarship, however, has largely focused on the privatization of state foreign policy, overlooking the empirical analysis of international organizations' use of commercial actors in the conduct of crisis management operations. The present study fills this gap by investigating the role of commercial contractors in supporting E…
Understanding United Nations targeted sanctions: An Empirical Analysis
Nations sanctions have undergone profound transformations in the past two decades. In 1990, the Security Council (UNSC) imposed a general, comprehensive embargo on trade with Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. In 2015 the UN has 16 sanctions committees, managing regimes that have little in common with the one imposed against Iraq a quarter of a century ago. The sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990 covered all goods entering or leaving the entire cou…
States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands
While the current practice of the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the United States leans towards imposing only targeted sanctions in most of the cases, private actors often complain about inability to process financial transactions, ship goods, or deliver services in countries where sanctions targets are located. The impact of sanctions often ends up being widespread and indiscriminate because sanctions are implemented b…
The European Defence Fund precursor programmes and the state of the European market for defence
The fragmentation of the European defence market hampers the establishment of a unified European defence. The European Union (EU) has implemented initiatives like the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, Permanent Structured Cooperation, and the European Defence Fund (EDF) to address this issue. However, a comprehensive understanding of the European defence market and its consolidation, which is essential for evaluating these programs, remains i…
United in Diversity? A Study on the Implementation of Sanctions in the European Union
The implementation of European Union (EU) policies has been investigated for several policy areas, but Decisions made under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) have rarely been considered. While many CFSP measures are applicable throughout the EU without the need for further action on the domestic level, some Decisions must be implemented by Council Regulations. These Council Regulations adopted with the intent to implement CFSP Decisio…
Introduction: The United Nations and targeted sanctions
Mandatory United Nation (UN) sanctions imposed against Iraq, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Haiti in the 1990s gave rise to strong criticisms because of their comprehensive nature and the harm inflicted on innocent civilians. Chastened, the international community, led by like-minded, mainly western states, reformed the instrument of sanctions and adopted ‘targeted sanctions’—measures designed to address the peace spoilers but limit damag…
Beyond Intergovernmentalism: The Europeanization of Restrictive Measures
The functioning of the European Union (EU) has been explored extensively in recent years. The dominant prism through which to look at the EU is still one of locus: i.e. whether decisions are made in the capitals of its member states or in Brussels. This debate is contained in the dualism between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism, but drawing the boundaries between the two concepts is still undone. This article attempts to contribute to so…
Beyond Intergovernmentalism: The Europeanization of Restrictive Measures
The functioning of the European Union (EU) has been explored extensively in recent years. The dominant prism through which to look at the EU is still one of locus: i.e. whether decisions are made in the capitals of its member states or in Brussels. This debate is contained in the dualism between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism, but drawing the boundaries between the two concepts is still undone. This article attempts to contribute to so…
Introduction - EU Security Governance: From Processes to Policies
The recent developments in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) show a growing synergy between national, transnational and supranational levels where a wide range of actors cooperate
Normative Power under Contract? Commercial Support to European Crisis Management Operations
The increasing privatization of military and stability operations has received considerable scholarly attention. Existing scholarship, however, has largely focused on the privatization of state foreign policy, overlooking the empirical analysis of international organizations' use of commercial actors in the conduct of crisis management operations. The present study fills this gap by investigating the role of commercial contractors in supporting E…
Introduction: The United Nations and targeted sanctions
Mandatory United Nation (UN) sanctions imposed against Iraq, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Haiti in the 1990s gave rise to strong criticisms because of their comprehensive nature and the harm inflicted on innocent civilians. Chastened, the international community, led by like-minded, mainly western states, reformed the instrument of sanctions and adopted ‘targeted sanctions’—measures designed to address the peace spoilers but limit damag…
Understanding United Nations targeted sanctions: An Empirical Analysis
Nations sanctions have undergone profound transformations in the past two decades. In 1990, the Security Council (UNSC) imposed a general, comprehensive embargo on trade with Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. In 2015 the UN has 16 sanctions committees, managing regimes that have little in common with the one imposed against Iraq a quarter of a century ago. The sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990 covered all goods entering or leaving the entire cou…
Trade agreements and labour standards clauses: Explaining labour standards developments through a qualitative comparative analysis of US free trade agreements
Whereas a number of studies have been conducted to investigate causal relations between individual conditions (e.g. trade relations and labour standards), there is a lack of consensus among practitioners and scholars about the conditions that favour or cause labour standards improvements and, specifically, it is still unclear whether the increasing pervasiveness of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) is conducive to enhancing labour conditions. The aim …
The Redistributive Impact of Restrictive Measures on EU Members: Winners and Losers from Imposing Sanctions on Russia
EU sanctions on Russia created concerns among its members. It is well known that sanctions impose a cost on their targets as well as on the senders, as lamented by European governments, but the costs of EU sanctions on its members have not been fully explored. This article intends to fill this gap by looking at the cost of EU sanctions on Russia. Who is bearing the cost among EU countries? This article argues that sanctions had a redistributive i…
When states and individuals meet: The UN Ombudsperson as a 'contact point' between international and world society
Interaction between individuals and states is considered a distinctive character of domestic politics, while international politics is the 'realm of states'. However, it is becoming more common to encounter loci where both states and individuals interact at the international level, such as in the cases of the Special Tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Former Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the…
States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands
While the current practice of the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the United States leans towards imposing only targeted sanctions in most of the cases, private actors often complain about inability to process financial transactions, ship goods, or deliver services in countries where sanctions targets are located. The impact of sanctions often ends up being widespread and indiscriminate because sanctions are implemented b…
United in Diversity? A Study on the Implementation of Sanctions in the European Union
The implementation of European Union (EU) policies has been investigated for several policy areas, but Decisions made under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) have rarely been considered. While many CFSP measures are applicable throughout the EU without the need for further action on the domestic level, some Decisions must be implemented by Council Regulations. These Council Regulations adopted with the intent to implement CFSP Decisio…
UN Sanctions as Leverage in Mediation Processes: An Anatomy of Missed Opportunities in South Sudan
This article analyzes the role of UN sanctions in the context of peace negotiations in South Sudan from the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013 until the signing of the peace agreement in August 2015. Drawing on the literature regarding third-party intervention in civil wars, it explores whether the UN sanctions regime—established in March 2015—was conceived as an instrument of leverage to get the parties to agree to a settlement. The arti…
Multilateralism in Peril: The Uneasy Triangle of the US, China and the EU
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure
There is growing debate over whether applications of blockchain and other financial technologies (‘fintechs’) reinforce forms of neo-colonial extraction that perpetuate North–South inequities or help enact decolonial ambitions across the Global South. This paper expands such discussions and contributes to this special issue on ‘fintech in Africa’ by situating emerging African blockchain techno-experimentation within wider international infrastruc…
The European Defence Fund precursor programmes and the state of the European market for defence
The fragmentation of the European defence market hampers the establishment of a unified European defence. The European Union (EU) has implemented initiatives like the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, Permanent Structured Cooperation, and the European Defence Fund (EDF) to address this issue. However, a comprehensive understanding of the European defence market and its consolidation, which is essential for evaluating these programs, remains i…
Sources of strength: The European defence industry in a disorderly world
This essay by the editors is the Preface of the special Issue on the European defence industry. It summarises all the articles contained in the special Issue, the rationale for such research and the principal conclusions of said research project
Compensating the Social Harm of Illicit Trade by Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets: Opportunities and Side Constraints
Various forms of illicit trade, such as drug trafficking, trading in counterfeit products, wildlife trafficking, and cigarette smuggling, can have a significant impact on local communities and cause a deterioration in the living environment, undermine institutional structures, and increase violent conflicts between and within social groups. This social harm is real, albeit difficult to gauge and compensate, as traditional procedures focus on indi…
Exploring the role of cryptocurrencies in sanctions evasion: A systematic review
Governing through guesstimates: Mock Precision in International Organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statistics frequently represent ‘guesstimates’ rather than solid measures. Nonetheless, they are often presented as if they were perfectly reliable, precise estimates. What drives IOs to disseminate guesstimates and why are they frequently presented with seem…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (9 works) · International trade (9 works) · Sanctions (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · European union (6 works) · Economic Sanctions and International Relations (5 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (4 works)