Could the Financial Action Task Force Save U.N. Sanctions?

As a more technical body, the task force might be able to fill the gap left by Security Council paralysis.

A wide view shows the large circular table of the U.N. Security Council, with about fifteen representatives seated at placards naming their countries and various aides sitting in chairs behind them. A mural stretches across one large wall, and the other is covered in green wallpaper. November 4, 2025, 11:39 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Once praised as instruments of coercive diplomacy, United Nations Security Council sanctions have become toothless and ineffective. The Security Council is compromised by structural dysfunction that allows states to sabotage and evade its sanctions, thereby hastening the decay

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