The Refrigerator and the Television - Sanctions as War by Other Means

From 2006 to 2007, Gregory was the Deputy Head of the Permanent Parliamentary Delegation to the PACE and the Ukrainian delegation to the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. [...] 4 How Sanctions Work – and Don’t Work During the height of sanctions on South Africa in the late 1980s, following the imposition of a raft of multilateral and bilateral measures, including the 1977 UN arms embargo and the 1985 US Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, South African entrepreneurs quickly developed methods to circumvent even the tightest of measures. [...] Governments representing about 60% of the world’s population, including India, China, South Africa and much of the Middle East, did not at the outset of the conflict accept the Ukrainian or Western narrative of the war in 2022 for various reasons. [...] Yet even though this regime has undoubtedly made it more difficult for the Russians, and the full extent of the impacts are not known, despite a decade of conflict and the ‘most extensive sanctions regime in history’, little appears to have changed.8 The idea was, at the outset, that Western sanctions would slowly but inexorably bite, making the conflict a ‘struggle between the refrigerator and th. [...] It’s that it puts the interests of the state above – and seemingly beyond – those of the individual, the opposite of the very premise of the human rights regime that followed the Second World War where, in the esteemed Nuremburg jurist Hersch Lauterpacht’s words, ‘The well-being of an individual is the ultimate object of all law.’40 Lauterpacht was born close to Habsburg Lemberg, now Lviv in moder.