ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the general premise that both G8 governance and the use of sanctions in international relations more broadly exhibit a wide range of effectiveness from high success to great failure. It seeks to determine if G8 action is associated with sanctioning success, as a basis for subsequent detailed process tracing to find how much and how G8 action, was responsible for the success or failure which came. The chapter presents an analysis, which focuses on discrete major cases of G8 sanctions, excluding actions regarding the general conditionality of the international financial institutions (IFIs). The G8s past performance and increasing use of sanctions is therefore promising, especially as an alternative to using deadly military force. The G8s position as an effective governor of global peace and security is thus reinforced. Several diplomatic observers have concluded that the G8 has appropriately and successfully used sanctions, in the new security spheres of crime, nuclear safety, nuclear terrorism and terrorist finance.
