EU global human rights sanctions regime
Is the genie out of the bottle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12736788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christophe Eckes (0000-0003-2131-0123, European Faculty of Law, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 255-269 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-2790 • E-ISSN: 1478-2804 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14782804.2021.1965556 |
| OpenAlex | W3188508727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
On 7 December 2020, the EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted an ‘EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime’ (EU HRSR). The EU HRSR is an example of a transnational response to a fundamental security-related challenge. Both its adoption and its specific institutional set-up are a continuation of the move towards stronger supranational practices in the area of sanctions. Further supranationalising the EU’s sanctioning practices, as one of its most developed and most powerful tools to response to security threats, is likely to increase the uniformity, flexibility, and arguably also the impartiality of the sanctions. At the same time, the adoption process also demonstrated that national governments set limits to further supranationalisation. While in particular the Dutch parliament was a driving force behind the adoption of the EU HRSR, both national parliaments and the European Parliament are likely to struggle to have significant influence over the sanctioning process. Yet, much depends on the actual sanctioning practices and the legal framing of the EU HRSR’s objectives, designation criteria and evidentiary threshold may in practice raise legitimacy problems
Business · Economics · Enforcement · European union · Framing (construction · Human rights · Impartiality · International trade · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |