Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Political Science

The aim of this dissertation is to study thoroughly sanctions as EU foreign policy tool post-Cold War era. It examined sanctions in international relations in terms of its rational being one of the main foreign policy tools, the objectives lying behind it, different sanctions{u2019} types, and the paradigm shift which the field of sanctions witnessed post-Cold War moving from comprehensive sanctions towards more targeted sanctions coined as 2Smart sanctions3. The dissertation unveils the EU sanctions evolution, the creation of the CFSP in the Maastricht treaty, which in turn entailed the use of sanctions, the types of EU sanctions imposed against third countries and the decision making procedure of the different types of sanctions. Further, the dissertation highlights six EU sanction regimes in force in both Middle East and Eastern Europe

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