INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AS DISCIPLINARY REGIMES: IMPLEMENTATION OF WESTERN SANCTIONS AND LOCAL RESPONSES IN VARIOUS REGIONS

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The dominant definition of sanctions is measures which stop short of war. The vast literature on this topic is bifurcated as some claim sanctions are useful tools that prevent war, some others claim they are useless and have only face value. The case studies elaborated in this research indicate that sanctions fail to attain a policy change on the target, distort smooth flow of daily life of civilians, and sometimes even inflict harm over third parties. This research does not aim to provide a new definition, help designing more effective measures, or argue that sanctions are destined to fail therefore they should not be implemented. Nor the argument criticizing the senders here can be read as supporting or defending the target countries. Rather, this research aims only to analyze sanctions measures from a social constructivist perspective. Sanctions as being tools of this display do operate in a zone that is not regulated by international law. Therefore, the argument put forward in this research goes, they do not necessarily stop short of war which is a rule-based game regulated by international law. This, of course, does not mean that wars are better than sanctions; argument here points not to the betterness but to the unregulated nature of sanctions measures. On the contrary, via the case-studies this research concludes that the sanctions are largely used as tools by “Western” powers for their display of power against "non-Western” countries in a Foucauldian sense.

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Orientalism, Area Studies, Middle East, Constructivist Approaches, Michel Foucault

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E. Aksop, “INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AS DISCIPLINARY REGIMES: IMPLEMENTATION OF WESTERN SANCTIONS AND LOCAL RESPONSES IN VARIOUS REGIONS,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.