United Nations Mandated Naval Interdiction Operations in the Territorial Sea

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ID9930347
AuthorsRob McLaughlin (0000-0001-6543-2857, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume51
Issue2
Pages249-278
Publication date2002-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational and Comparative Law Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5893 • E-ISSN: 1471-6895
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1093/iclq/51.2.249
OpenAlexW2026528824
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

The practice of imposing economic sanctions in order to influence the actions of states and other parties—historically with varied levels of actual effectiveness—has a long and chequered history. 2 Given, however, that more than 90 per cent of the world's trade is carried by sea, 3 it is one particular form of sanction management—the ‘so called economic weapon’ of naval blockade— which tends to dominate the implementation of sanctions regimes. 4 Yet despite the frequency with which naval forces are used to implement maritime sanctions—or perhaps because of the long but erratic history of naval embargo and blockade—the regime as a whole remains haunted by some uncertainties as to its conceptual basis. As WL Martin observes, ‘some measures such as “pacific blockade”, have at times acquired a technical meaning’ which has left them ill-equipped to deal with and adjust to new developments in blockade practice. 5 Even prior to 1914, the notion of ‘blockade’ was a dualist concept. On one hand, it was clearly a weapon of war. 6

Blockade · Economic sanctions · Economics · Epistemology · Interdiction · Law and economics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Sanctions · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy

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