We can witness in real time how the Trump administration is devastating international relations as well as the international legal order. Sanctions form an integral part of this disruptive behaviour, as they attribute political and economic weight to the US’ foreign policy agendas (see e.g. here; here). One particular tool to maximize these aspired goals is extraterritorial or “secondary” sanctions: unilateral or autonomous measures of (mostly) economic or financial dimension which do not directly target the ultimate addressee but aim to interrupt the addressee’s transactions with third States. The US has in the past always been the most active operator in this field and nothing indicates that the Trump administration will be altering that façon.
Sanctions
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Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies: Part II
In a previous post, written before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, I wrote about the various measures – particularly those targeting America’s allies – that he threatened to implement, and whether those measures would be compatible with the principle of non-intervention under customary international law. In that post, which was based on…
A Tiny Bit of Progress in the Midst of Major Impasse – Revamping the UN Security Council’s Focal Point Mechanism for Sanctions
While the international legal order as we know it seems to be tilting to a more anarchic mode, incremental changes to the UN system of collective security and specifically the UN Security Council are still materializing. In the year that Russia started the war against Ukraine, which resulted in the Council’s paralysis on many fronts, a landmark Resolution…
Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies and the Prohibition of Intervention
Next week, Donald Trump will become President of the United States. Again. Even before his assumption of the presidency, he seems to have started setting his country’s foreign policy. Among the many items on his agenda, we have witnessed all these ideas and proposals about making Canada the 51st state, seizing the Panama Canal and…
A customary rule against unilateral economic sanctions of the nature of the Helms-Burton Act? Regarding another (potential) vote in the United Nations General Assembly against the “bloqueo”
Introduction Presumably, in November 2024, within the framework of the General Assembly session, Cuba will once again submit a resolution for a vote emphasising the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”. This is an opportune moment to analyse whether the overwhelming support of the…
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