Explain the EU’s Sanctions Towards Cambodia, 2017-2021: Human Rights and the EU’s Strategies

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.238How to use a DOI?

Keywords

EU, Cambodia, Sanctions, Human Rights

Abstract

The essay explores the reasons for the EU’s sanctions towards Cambodia and the role of human rights in sanctions. Briefly, it gives some suggestions regarding using sanction tools by analysing the essence of the EU’s sanctions towards Cambodia. This phenomenon has been observed in recent years and usually emerged between higher and lower democratic index states that the EU sanctioned Cambodia. The essay uses the case study method to discuss the EU’s sanctions towards Cambodia from 2017 to 2021. Through the case study of sanctions, the essay hopes to have broader lessons of knowing that human rights should not be the only reason for sanctions. The result of the essay reveals that not all sanctions are derived from human rights, but sanctions that take human rights as a starting point could instead violate human rights. In conclusion, the essay deepens our understanding of the EU’s sanctions towards Cambodia, the EU’s sanctions, European sanctions towards other states, and the sanctions. To some extent, it will reveal that sanctions are tools under the situation of abnormal diplomacy. Moreover, the essay can be useful to understand how to correctly use sanction tools in the future and illustrate that sanctions could not become the only effective way under the framework of international relations. Admittedly, the essay is limited because not all sanctions start from a human rights perspective, and there will also be oil sanctions like the US imposed on Germany in WWII. Further studies can investigate the EU’s strategies towards those Southeastern Asian states and explore the role of Cambodia.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yichen Hao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Explain the EU’s Sanctions Towards Cambodia, 2017-2021: Human Rights and the EU’s Strategies
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.238
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