Essays about: "Economic sanctions"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 80 essays containing the words Economic sanctions.

  1. 21. Getting hard to resist: Prospect of mandatory human rights due diligence in Ukraine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Ihor Konopka; [2021]
    Keywords : Business and human rights; corporate respect for human rights; due diligence; human rights due diligence; mandatory human rights due diligence; corporate civil liability; Ukraine; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced human rights due diligence (HRDD) as a societal expectation to businesses to implement a new kind of due diligence risk management process to ‘know and show’ they respect human rights. Ten years later, mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD) legislation imposing a legal duty to carry out HRDD has become mainstream across Europe. READ MORE

  3. 22. Economic sanctions for peace: The non-violent option for whom?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Arita Halili; [2021]
    Keywords : economic sanctions; conflict intensity; non-military international intervention; humanitarian intervention; conflict resolution; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : There is a consensus in previous research that economic sanctions have a low level of effectiveness in reaching objectives. Despite this, economic sanctions are consistently used to reach different international goals. In later years, economic sanctions have become one of the most common actions in response to foreign conflict and terrorism. READ MORE

  4. 23. Sanctions, what sanctions? : An empirical study on the effect of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation between 2014 and 2019

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Hampus Ahl; Viktor Lundmark; [2021]
    Keywords : Russia; sanctions; SCM; DiD; Crimea case;

    Abstract : In this thesis we examine if sanctions had a causal effect on total trade on Russia after its annexation of Crimea 2014. To answer this a synthetic control method (SCM) and a difference in difference (DiD) method was implemented. The results show that a causal effect of sanctions was not found by neither method. READ MORE

  5. 24. EU Sanctions effects on Russia contra Belarus

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Max Vestin; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : What pressure tools are available in conflicts between countries and when flagrant violationsof political rights and civil liberties occur in a country? There is no absolute answer to whattools are best used. Economic sanctions have been used for a very long time and after WorldWar II sanctions have developed as a tool for different situations and have become targetedinstead of more general as before. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Effect of International Organized Punishment of Foreign Policy : A study on the effects of sanctions imposed against the Government of Zimbabwe between 2002-2020

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Amanuel Yokabel; [2021]
    Keywords : Zimbabwe; ZANU-PF; United States; European Union; sanctions; effect;

    Abstract : In the early 2000 the government of Zimbabwe was targeted by sanction and restrictive measures imposed by the United States and the European Union. Sanctions have for decades been used as a method to delegitimize and isolate wrongdoers in order to promote democratic transitioning. READ MORE