Feeble rules: one dual-use sanctions regime, multiple ways of implementation and application?

IF 2.7 2区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES
Katharina L. Meissner, Kevin Urbanski
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Export controls of dual-use products and sanctions on respective items are highly regulated in the European Union (EU). However, we find multiple instances of implementation and application problems of dual-use control in the Member States. To explain this puzzling observation, we investigate the relationship between the institutional design of sanctions and their subsequent implementation and application. Drawing on rational design theory, we argue that even if coherence is the EU’s stated goal, the institutional design of the current dual-use export control regime is inadequate to provide for coherence. National licensing decisions and a constant need for the interpretation of contingent rules in the implementation and application of dual-use sanctions are structural challenges to establish a coherent European policy. The relationship between institutional design and coherence, which we investigate in the context of sanctions, is not specific to the EU. Instead, we offer a novel conceptual and analytical tool to study the expected degree and causes of (in-)coherence in the implementation and application of any regime of international sanctions.
薄弱的规则:一个两用制裁制度,多种执行和适用方式?
欧盟对军民两用产品的出口管制和相应项目的制裁进行了严格管制。然而,我们在会员国发现了执行和应用双重用途管制问题的多个实例。为了解释这一令人困惑的观察结果,我们调查了制裁的制度设计与其随后的执行和适用之间的关系。根据理性设计理论,我们认为,即使一致性是欧盟的既定目标,当前军民两用出口管制制度的制度设计也不足以提供一致性。国家颁发许可证的决定以及在执行和适用双重用途制裁方面不断需要解释可能的规则,是建立连贯的欧洲政策的结构性挑战。我们在制裁背景下调查的制度设计与一致性之间的关系并非欧盟所特有。相反,我们提供了一种新的概念和分析工具,用于研究任何国际制裁制度的执行和应用中(不)一致性的预期程度和原因。
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European Security
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