Economic Sanctions and their Legal Implications to Third Party Countries: A Case Study of Tanzania,

Nziku, Petro (2022) Economic Sanctions and their Legal Implications to Third Party Countries: A Case Study of Tanzania,. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The increased use of economic sanctions by the United Nations Security Council and other United Nations member states as a means of enforcing policy change in the targeted state has increasingly confronted the international community with the problem of the indirect effect of such measures on third States. This study has dealt with assessing the lawfulness of the Unilateral Economic Sanctions to third party states where Tanzania was used as a case study. The study was guided by three main objectives including: to assess the legal justification for unilateral and secondary economic sanctions; to evaluate and analyze the legal impacts of unilateral and secondary economic sanctions to third party countries like Tanzania; and to suggest new way to the relevant organs on how to deal with unilateral and secondary economic sanctions towards protection of third party countries. The study employed doctrinal research method which was supplemented by quantitative data analysis. Both Primary and secondary sources of data were collected where, a number of relevant treaties, conventions, laws, regulations and other scholarly works were analyzed. The study was mainly library based, although online sources were also consulted. The findings show, among other things, that unilateral economic sanction between one state and another is not justifiable under the UN Charter. Moreover, its impacts to third party countries extent into violation of human rights and violation of international norms and standards on state sovereignty. The study also revealed that there are no clear rules governing how to handle economic sanctions to third party states. The study recommends for United Nations to develop clear rules to guide the application of “smart” economic sanctions towards the targeted state(s). Key words: Sanctions, Economic, Unilateral, Sovereignty.

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