ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an overview of contemporary United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) sanctions practice. It demonstrates how sanctions regimes could be assessed using new approach in which greater emphasis is put on distinct episodes of a case, rather than on sanctions regimes as such. The analysis of a case into episodes also illustrates the kind of interaction that goes on between sender and target during the course of a sanctions regime. The pool of cases typified here includes all those ongoing UN and EU sanctions regimes that have ever adopted sanctions against individuals and that were active in mid-2009. A general overview of the number of UN and EU sanctions regimes suggests that Myanmar has the highest number of entities listed. This could be compared to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) regimes, which over the last ten years have had the highest numbers of entities subject to travel bans and asset freezes.
