As earlier said, with the end of the Cold War, the UN Security Council began the utility of sanctions more often. In mid-1990s alone they were implemented so as to effect a series of goals, such as enforcing a democratic governance in Haiti and ensuring the Yamoussoukro Accord to put an end to military war in Liberia. Sanctions were used as “instruments meant to alter the cost–benefit assessment of the targets in their policy choices and to enforce international norms, generally but not only related to international security”. Furthermore, sanctions were used to counter the state sponsorship of terrorism in Libya in the 1990s to impose non-proliferation norms in Iran and North Korea from 2006 till date. Quite often also, “they were used
