The effectiveness of smart sanctions in maintaining international peace and security

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The necessity of respecting the rules of international law requires punishing any violations through comprehensive sanctions.

in an attempt to ameliorate the devasting impacts of comprehensive sanctions, the united nations decided to use a new form of sanctions in order to restore international peace and security.

this form of sanctions is called “smart” or targeted sanctions.

in the following article, we are going to tackle the concept of smart sanctions, which is an alternative way to conventional comprehensive sanctions.

these targeted sanctions aimed to protect human rights particularly, those of civilian population.

the article searches as well to what extent are smart sanctions successfully implemented and whether they manage to achieve their ultimate goals.

we address correspondingly, the effectiveness of smart sanctions through highlighting their main positive and negative effects.