Global Perspectives on SanctionsRoberto BelloniLabel: Edinburgh University PressDescription: Global Perspectives on Sanctions explores why sanctions are contested by so many countries around the world. While most countries have declared their opposition to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine relatively few have taken any action to apply restrictive measures on Moscow. Is it because they do not share norms of non-intervention and opposition to the use of force is it because they are protecting their self-interests or is it because they oppose the self-appointed group of countries enacting sanctions or do they object to the use of sanctions in general?This edited collection investigates these issues by undertaking a multi-perspectivist empirical and historically grounded set of analyses from Europe North America Africa Latin America East Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia. Resistance to the use of sanctions is typically not based on opposition to global norms themselves but how they are interpreted by whom and on the instruments themselves.
