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Doctoral Fellow Iana Ovsiannikova presents her research on Regional Sanctions Governance

Feb 10 2026 Posted: 13:23 GMT

On 6 February 2026, Iana Ovsiannikova presented a research paper entitled ‘Regional sanctions governance: cooperation, leadership and adaptation’ at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

Iana Ovsiannikova is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University affiliated with United Nations University-Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).

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Within the scope of her doctoral research, Iana explores regional leadership in the UN Security Council sanctions on African countries, the role of sanctions in regional governance and how sanctions impact regional political and institutional frameworks in Central Asia in view of the EU's more assertive use of positive incentives and secondary sanctions.

The paper presented focused on Africa and Central Asia, exploring how regions interact with sanctions and asked the broader question of sanctions stipulate any process of regionalisation across various axes of sanctions. In particular, the paper discussed the issue of regional agency in response to sanctions through three theoretical mechanisms: coordination, leadership and adaptation.

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