Imposing Sanctions on Violent Non-State Actors to Restore International Peace and Security: A Systematic Analysis of the Conditions under which UN Targeted Sanctions Work

Acknowledgements\nContents\nAbbreviations\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\n1 Introduction\n2 International Sanctions as a Policy Instrument to Address Challenges to International Peace and Security\n	2.1 Do International Sanctions Work?\n	2.2 The Determinants of Sanctions Effectiveness\n	2.3 The Purposes of International Sanctions\n3 The United Nations as a Sanctioning Organization\n	3.1 The Evolution of UN Targeted Sanctions\n	3.2 Legal Framework of UN Targeted Sanctions\n	3.3 Types of UN Targeted Sanctions\n	3.4 Policy Goals Behind the Imposition of UN Targeted Sanctions\n4 Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Sanctions Effectiveness\n	4.1 Diverging Definitions and Dimensions of Effectiveness\n	4.2 The Attribution Problem\n	4.3 Other Conceptual and Methodological Challenges\n5 Theorizing the Effective Sanctioning of Violent Non-State Actors\n6 Empirical Strategy\n7 Quantitative Analysis I\n	7.1 Data\n	7.2 Methodology\n	7.3 Dependent Variable\n	7.4 Independent Variables\n	7.5 Control Variable\n	7.6 Empirical Findings\n		7.6.1 The Effectiveness of UN Sanctions Targeted on Violent Non-State Actors\n		7.6.2 Testing the Determinants of UN Targeted Sanctions’ Effectiveness in Coercing\n		7.6.3 Testing the Determinants of UN Targeted Sanctions’ Effectiveness in Constraining\n8 Qualitative Analysis\n	8.1 Case Selection\n	8.2 Methodology\n	8.3 Empirical Findings\n		8.3.1 Case Study Coercing—UN Sanctions Against Sudan’s Justice and Equality Movement\n		8.3.2 Case Study Constraining—UN Sanctions Against Somalia’s Al-Shabaab\n	8.4 New Hypotheses Generated from Studying the Deviant Cases\n9 Quantitative Analysis II\n	9.1 Operationalization of Additional Variables\n	9.2 Descriptive Analysis of Additional Variables\n	9.3 Final Analysis of the Factors Determining UN Targeted Sanctions’ Effectiveness in Coercing\n	9.4 Final Analysis of the Factors Determining UN Targeted Sanctions’ Effectiveness in Constraining\n	9.5 Testing the Robustness of the Quantitative Results\n10 Conclusion\n	10.1 Empirical Findings and Gaps for Future Research\n	10.2 Recommendations for Future UN Sanctions Policy\nBibliography