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Kein Soziotop hat sich seit dem Mauerfall so radikal verändert wie der Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg. Früher ein Hort der DDR-Avantgarde, haben seit 1989 viele Studierende und später Yuppies, Bobos und Lohas den Charme des Viertels für sich entdeckt - ein Verdrängungsprozess, der nicht ohne Konflikte verlief. Thomas Dörfler erforscht den sozialräumlichen Wandel des Ostberliner Innenstadtbezirks seit den späten 1980er Jahren und richtet seine Perspektive auf die alltagsweltlichen Raumpraktiken früherer und heutiger Bewohner_innen. Er zeigt, dass dieser Wandel mit dem klassischen Raumverständnis der Stadtforschung nicht adäquat analysiert werden kann, und stellt das Konzept des relationalen Milieuraums vor. Ein innovativer Beitrag zur Gentrification-Forschung, der raum- und milieutheoretische Perspektiven miteinander verknüpft

Sanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria. The scholarship on human rights in counterterrorism assumes that rights advocacy and court litigation have prompted this development. The article complements this literature by highlighting an unexplored internal driver of legal-regulatory decision-making and explores how mixed-motive interest constellations among Security Council members have affected the extent of committee regulations and the content of decisions taken by sanctions committees. Based on internal documents and diplomatic cables, a comparative analysis of the Iraq sanctions regime and the counterterrorism sanctions regime demonstrates that mixed-motive interest constellations among Security Council members provide incentives to elaborate rules to guide decision-making resulting in legal-regulatory sanctions governance, even if the human rights of targeted individuals are not at stake. For comparative leverage and to assess the limits of the proposed mechanism, the analysis is briefly extended to other sanctions regimes targeting individuals (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan). The findings have implications for this essential tool of the Security Council to react to threats to peace as diverse as counterterrorism, nonproliferation, and internal armed conflict.

AbstractSanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria. The scholarship on human rights in counterterrorism assumes that rights advocacy and court litigation have prompted this development. The article complements this literature by highlighting an unexplored internal driver of legal-regulatory decision-making and explores how mixed-motive interest constellations among Security Council members have affected the extent of committee regulations and the content of decisions taken by sanctions committees. Based on internal documents and diplomatic cables, a comparative analysis of the Iraq sanctions regime and the counterterrorism sanctions regime demonstrates that mixed-motive interest constellations among Security Council members provide incentives to elaborate rules to guide decision-making resulting in legal-regulatory sanctions governance, even if the human rights of targeted individuals are not at stake. For comparative leverage and to assess the limits of the proposed mechanism, the analysis is briefly extended to other sanctions regimes targeting individuals (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan). The findings have implications for this essential tool of the Security Council to react to threats to peace as diverse as counterterrorism, nonproliferation, and internal armed conflict.

The article explores whether and to what extent expert recommendations affect decision-making within the Security Council and its North Korea and Iran sanctions regimes. The article first develops a rationalist theoretical argument to show why making many second-stage decisions, such as determining lists of items under export restrictions, subjects Security Council members to repeating coordination situations. Expert recommendations may provide focal point solutions to coordination problems, even when interests diverge and preferences remain stable. Empirically, the article first explores whether expert recommendations affected decision-making on commodity sanctions imposed on North Korea. Council members heavily relied on recommended export trigger lists as focal points, solving a divisive conflict among great powers. Second, the article explores whether expert recommendations affected the designation of sanctions violators in the Iran sanctions regime. Council members designated individuals and entities following expert recommendations as focal points, despite conflicting interests among great powers. The article concludes that expert recommendations are an additional means of influence in Security Council decision-making and seem relevant for second-stage decision-making among great powers in other international organisations.

The article explores whether and to what extent expert recommendations affect decision-making within the Security Council and its North Korea and Iran sanctions regimes. The article first develops a rationalist theoretical argument to show why making many second-stage decisions, such as determining lists of items under export restrictions, subjects Security Council members to repeating coordination situations. Expert recommendations may provide focal point solutions to coordination problems, even when interests diverge and preferences remain stable. Empirically, the article first explores whether expert recommendations affected decision-making on commodity sanctions imposed on North Korea. Council members heavily relied on recommended export trigger lists as focal points, solving a divisive conflict among great powers. Second, the article explores whether expert recommendations affected the designation of sanctions violators in the Iran sanctions regime. Council members designated individuals and entities following expert recommendations as focal points, despite conflicting interests among great powers. The article concludes that expert recommendations are an additional means of influence in Security Council decision-making and seem relevant for second-stage decision-making among great powers in other international organisations.

Kein Soziotop hat sich seit dem Mauerfall so radikal verändert wie der Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg. Früher ein Hort der DDR-Avantgarde, haben seit 1989 viele Studierende und später Yuppies, Bobos und Lohas den Charme des Viertels für sich entdeckt – ein Verdrängungsprozess, der nicht ohne Konflikte verlief. Thomas Dörfler erforscht den sozialräumlichen Wandel des Ostberliner Innenstadtbezirks seit den späten 1980er Jahren und richtet seine Perspektive auf die alltagsweltlichen Raumpraktiken früherer und heutiger Bewohner/-innen. Er zeigt, dass dieser Wandel mit dem klassischen Raumverständnis der Stadtforschung nicht adäquat analysiert werden kann, und stellt das Konzept des relationalen Milieuraums vor. Ein innovativer Beitrag zur Gentrification-Forschung, der raum- und milieutheoretische Perspektiven miteinander verknüpft

Kein Soziotop hat sich seit dem Mauerfall so radikal verändert wie der Berliner Stadtteil Prenzlauer Berg. Früher ein Hort der DDR-Avantgarde, haben seit 1989 viele Studierende und später Yuppies, Bobos und Lohas den Charme des Viertels für sich entdeckt - ein Verdrängungsprozess, der nicht ohne Konflikte verlief. Thomas Dörfler erforscht den sozialräumlichen Wandel des Ostberliner Innenstadtbezirks seit den späten 1980er Jahren und richtet seine Perspektive auf die alltagsweltlichen Raumpraktiken früherer und heutiger Bewohner_innen. Er zeigt, dass dieser Wandel mit dem klassischen Raumverständnis der Stadtforschung nicht adäquat analysiert werden kann, und stellt das Konzept des relationalen Milieuraums vor. Ein innovativer Beitrag zur Gentrification-Forschung, der raum- und milieutheoretische Perspektiven miteinander verknüpft.