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Articles This article has been published as Policy Paper No. 7 of the Development and Peace Foundation (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frie- den), Bonn, and was finalised before the agreement concerning the extradition of the suspects in the Lockerbie incident had been reached. Can coercive measures taken by the international community preserve or restore peace? The founders of the United Nations believed that they could at least in individual cases. Hence they gave the UN Security Council inter alia the powers to im- pose binding sanctions. Throughout its existence, the Security Council was only rarely able to make use of this right, because during the Cold War years the consensus required to do so was lacking. Since then, however, there have been a range of sanction resolutions, and against the back- ground of these new experiences, the question of the correct use of this kind of instruments has become a vital issue in political debates. The reason why sanctions as an in- strument are so attractive to political decision-makers is obvious. Sanctions constitute a means of exerting inter- national influence that is more power- ful than diplomatic mediation but still lies below the threshold of military intervention. This characteristic also http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of International Peacekeeping Brill

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Journal of International Peacekeeping , Volume 4 (6): 7 – Jan 1, 1998
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1875-4104
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10.1163/187541198X00727
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This article has been published as Policy Paper No. 7 of the Development and Peace Foundation (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frie- den), Bonn, and was finalised before the agreement concerning the extradition of the suspects in the Lockerbie incident had been reached. Can coercive measures taken by the international community preserve or restore peace? The founders of the United Nations believed that they could at least in individual cases. Hence they gave the UN Security Council inter alia the powers to im- pose binding sanctions. Throughout its existence, the Security Council was only rarely able to make use of this right, because during the Cold War years the consensus required to do so was lacking. Since then, however, there have been a range of sanction resolutions, and against the back- ground of these new experiences, the question of the correct use of this kind of instruments has become a vital issue in political debates. The reason why sanctions as an in- strument are so attractive to political decision-makers is obvious. Sanctions constitute a means of exerting inter- national influence that is more power- ful than diplomatic mediation but still lies below the threshold of military intervention. This characteristic also

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Published: Jan 1, 1998

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