ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the Sudan sanctions regime’s political origins, and how the great power struggle over sanctions on Sudan arose. It explores why transferring tasks, which elsewhere have led to functioning sanctions regimes, has not triggered similar effects in the Sudan Sanctions Committee. The Sudan sanctions regime is a challenging, but intriguing case for the committee governance framework, which makes it possible to study issues arising in the process of sanctions listing. The chapter examines how the great power conflict over sanctions leads to a deadlock in the sanctions committee. It demonstrates how proactive members try to resolve the stalemate and following the failure of rule-making, why these members submit a listing proposal to the Council. The chapter shows that proactive members no longer submit formal requests because they expect to fail in the light of great powers’ protracted conflict. Chinese and Russian intransigence has effectively cemented the present committee stalemate.
