Legitimacy of Economic Sanctions from the Perspective of International Economic Law

In fact, the main purpose of imposing economic sanctions is to prevent members of the international community from breaking the norms and to encourage to abide by these principles and norms. pursuant to Article 41 of the Charter in Chapter VII, the Security Council may respond to threats to international security and peace by imposing sanctions. and it is clear that the most practical and effective of these sanctions are the economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council on the basis of the Charter. on the other hand, countries also unilaterally impose sanctions on other countries with the aim of declaring the achievement of their national goals and interests. from this perspective, sanctions are seen as a tool for foreign policy purposes. Focusing on the study of economic sanctions from the perspective of international economic law, the present study tries to assess the legitimacy or illegitimacy of economic sanctions in the field of international economic law, whether economic sanctions have the necessary legitimacy in international economic law or not? economic sanctions do not seem to have legal legitimacy under international economic law. Thus, this study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method and has been done using valid library sources and documents.