Economic sanctions in international organizations and their effectiveness

Abstract

The research aims to clarify the importance of economic sanctions, the extent of their effectiveness and their impact on aggressor countries to stop and end their aggression and the possibility of getting the United Nations to impose this economic sanction on the regime currently ruling in Iran for its practice of illegal international action to launch aggression on the Iraqi country and its lack of commitment to all measures taken by the nations United to end the war in violation of the Charter of the International Organization, and clarifies the role of the international position on the commitment to these sanctions, especially the position of the major powers. As for the research method, it touched on what the economic boycott means, its types and the extent of its legitimacy, considering that sanctions are a type of boycott that international organizations decide to implement and find a basis for their legitimacy in its charter. He took an analysis of the provisions of the Multi-League of Nations Covenant and the United Nations Charter regarding the importance of these sanctions and the cases that apply to them. The research presented how international organizations applied these sanctions, especially those imposed on the illegal regime in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) as a distinct and contemporary case, and the research concluded that the international position on these sanctions.

Keywords

• war
• peace
• foreign relations
• international sanctions