Extensive academic research has looked at sanctions from the perspective of those imposing them. Less attention has been given to other impacts, for example, on their targets, on the domestic policies of the sanctioners and on third states. This issue of Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals explores these other effects. A first group of articles examines the reactions of the targets of sanctions, reviews the academic evaluation of their effectiveness and investigates the regulation of "conflict minerals" as a new form of sanction. A second group deals with the effects of sanctions on third countries, in particular the triangles the EU forms with the United States and Cuba on the one hand and with Russia and Belarus on the other, as well as the Asian stance on Western sanctions against Russia and in support of Ukraine. Finally, a third group analyses the impact of EU sanctions against Iran and Russia on some of its member states.
Clara Portela and Martijn C. Vlaskamp
Introduction: the other effects of international sanctions
Alexandra Hofer
Creating and contesting hierarchy: the punitive effect of sanctions in a horizontal system
Lee Jones and Clara Portela
Evaluating the success of international sanctions: a new research agenda
Ilari Aula
Due diligence as a conflict prevention tool in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Arturo López-Levy
Secondary sanctions in the United States-European Union-Cuba triangle
Ryhor Nizhnikau
Playing the enemies: Belarus finds in between EU and Russian sanctions regimes
Maria Shagina
Asia-Pacific’s responses to the Ukraine crisis: third-party alignment with sanctions on Russia
Paloma González del Miño and David Hernández Martínez
International sanctions on Iran: effects on relations with the European Union
Ruth Ferrero-Turrión
EU sanctions against Russia in the context of the Ukrainian conflict
Other articles
Bernabé Malacalza
Development Cooperation and International Relations: a field of study under debate
Book reviews (subjects)
Diego Badell
The Security Council and the chamber of secrets
Adrià Rivera Escartin
The effectiveness of sanctions: a communication problem?
Thomas Kruiper
The effectiveness and selectiveness of international sanctions
Ruth Ferrero Turrión
Reflecting on the future after COVID-19
