Purposes
Distribution of UN sanctions purposes across sanctions episodes:
All UN sanctions are intended to send normative signals to the targets and the broader international community. Not all are meant to constrain targets or change their behavior.
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Primary purpose distribution:
While virtually all UN sanctions pursue multiple, simultaneous purposes these do not carry the same weight. Signaling, the most ubiquitous purpose, is the primary purpose only in 3% of all cases. Most sanctions episodes (61%) are focused primarily on coercion, the rest (36%) on constraining the targets of sanctions.
