Sanction

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Sanctioning
Introduction
A sanction is a tool that belongs to the foreign policy, used by the international institutions or states to convince groups of governments of a government in particular to modify their system by investment, trade restriction or any other commercial activity. Sanction’s objectives include discouraging a target from involving in wrongful behavior, persuading a state that is offending to abandon or stop a practice that is considered wrong by the sanctioned, lastly altering the action of the target state by trying to subvert the wrong-doers who are in the incumbent. This study will examine the usefulness of authorizing and provide an example of how it was employed.
Importance of sanctions
Sanctions are regularly imposed by the European Union (EU) which is in response to reprehensible conduct, violation of human rights and the democratic principles or possible threats on security such as terrorism support and the acceleration of mass destruction weapons. Sanctions communicate the disapproval of European Union on lawbreaking or to address a threat. Lenhe argues that sanction imposition as common security and foreign policy tool has elevated steadily since the early 1990s, the past decade to be particular (Lenhe 11).
Sanction regimes are more active can be contemplated through rationalization of the existent practices without causing incurring high expenses. Sanctions improvement depends on European Union institutions and state member’s ability to share with each other the information.

Another way is to coordinate their place in advance, the access of the possible effects on the target behavior and the feasible fallout that sanctions might have on the European Union. Sanctions have increasingly become sophisticated with time. Sanctions target specific goods, operations in finance, assets, individual reputations, companies, or sectors that are associated with offensive behavior that sanctions seek to correct.
Adebahr gives the examples of successful employment of sanctions, and they include the European Union sanctions that targeted Iran’s oil industry which prohibited the oil shipping insurance cover, the freezing of Central bank of Iran and cutting off the banks if Iran from the global payment network (Adebahr 7). It also excluded Russian banks from taking long-term loans, the ban of the military double use of equipment
Conclusion
Sanctions are useful and have been used increasingly over the years, European Union has seen to its success. It has done so by for instance responding to reprehensible conduct, violation of human rights and the democratic principles or possible threats to security such as terrorism support. It is also evident that the employment of sanctions has proven to be successful.
Works cited
Adebahr, Cornelius. “Easing EU Sanctions on Iran.” Atlantic Council, June (2014):7
Lehne, Stefan. “The role of sanctions in EU foreign policy.” Carnegie Endowment for (2012):11