SANCTIONS

Question 1

What do sanctions do?

Answer 1

impose restrictions on activities that relate to particular countries with the purpose of denouncing and resolving situations of international concern

Question 2

what do international sanctions (e.g. UNSC sanctions regimes) foster?

Answer 2

a sense of international unity in denouncing unlawful actions

Question 3

Australian Autonomous Sanctions are imposed under…

Answer 3

the Autonomous Sanctions Bill 2010

Question 4

Australia’s sanctions alone are unlikely to significantly sway Russia’s behaviours due to …

Answer 4

relatively small amount of trade volume between the two states

Question 5

Russia is Australia’s (?)th top trading partner in 2019?

Answer 5

46th (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

Question 6

Australian autonomous sanctions imposed upon Russia are more…

Answer 6

symbolic than effective

Question 7

Australian autonomous sanctions against Russia represent the values of the international community: (?)

Answer 7

represent “fundamental norms of sovereignty and territorial integrity” (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong)

Question 8

What does Dr William Stoltz, ANU national security college say about economic sanctions in Russia being?

Answer 8

“especially by Australia… are largely symbolic”