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THE LAW OF THE LIST Thespreadofviolentextremism,9/11,theriseofISILandmovementof ‘foreign terrorist fighters’ are dramaticallyexpanding the powers of the UN Security Council to govern risky cross-border flows and threats by non-state actors. New security measures and data infrastructures are beingbuiltthatthreatentoerodehumanrightsandtransformtheworld order in far-reaching ways. The Law of the List is an interdisciplinary studyofglobalsecuritylawinmotion.ItfollowstheISILandAl-Qaida sanctions list, created by the UN Security Council to counter global terrorism,todifferentsites aroundthe world,mappingits effectsasan assemblage. Drawing on interviews with Council officials, diplomats, security experts, judges, secret diplomatic cables and the author’s experiences as a lawyer representing listed people, The Law of the List shows how governing through the list is reconfiguring global security, internationallawandthepowersofinternationalorganisations. gavin sullivan is a lecturer in law at the University of Kent. His research focuses on the politics of global security law and global data infrastructures,andhasbeenpublishedinjournalssuchasTransnational Legal Theory, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law and Environment and Planning D: Society andSpace.Gavinisapractisinglawyerwithexperienceinhumanrights litigation. He coordinates the Transnational Listing Project and has represented numerous individuals in delisting proceedings before the UN Office of the Ombudsperson. 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SeriesEditors M.E.A.Goodwin TilburgUniversity RandallLesaffer TilburgUniversity DavidNelken King’sCollegeLondon HanSomsen TilburgUniversity BooksintheSeries IntimationsofGlobalLaw NeilWalker LegalizedFamiliesintheEraofBorderedGlobalization DaphnaHacker TransnationalSustainabilityLaws PhillipPaiement TheSociologyofLawandtheGlobalTransformationofDemocracy ChrisThornhill AuthorityandtheGlobalisationofInclusionandExclusion HansLindahl TheLawoftheList:UNCounterterrorismSanctionsandthePolitics ofGlobalSecurityLaw GavinSullivan T H E L A W O F T H E L I S T UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law GAVIN SULLIVAN UniversityofKent UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108491921 DOI:10.1017/9781108649322 ©GavinSullivan2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Sullivan,Gavin,1974–author. Title:Thelawofthelist:UNcounterterrorismsanctionsandthepoliticsofglobalsecurity law/GavinSullivan,UniversityofKent,Canterbury Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY,USA:CambridgeUniversity Press,2020.|Series:Globallawseries|Basedonauthor’sthesis(doctoral–Universiteitvan Amsterdam,2017).|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2019042594(print)|LCCN2019042595(ebook)|ISBN9781108491921 (hardback)|ISBN9781108649322(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:UnitedNations–Sanctions.|Terrorism–Prevention–Lawandlegislation. Classification:LCCKZ6373.S852020(print)|LCCKZ6373(ebook)|DDC344.05/3257– dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019042594 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019042595 ISBN978-1-108-49192-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ForNovaandAelle, fromtheskytothesea CONTENTS ListofFigures pageix Foreword xi by fleur johns Acknowledgements xiv TableofCases xx ListofAbbreviations xxii ListofInterviews xxiv 1 TheLawoftheList 1 1.1 FourWallsofScholarship 9 1.2 StudyingGlobalSecurityLawinMotion 16 1.3 NotesontheMethodAssemblage 31 1.4 StructureoftheBook 49 2 GlobalListingTechnologiesandthePolitics ofExpertise 54 2.1 TheListAsaTechnologyofGovernance 59 2.2 GlobalCounterterrorismandthePoliticsofRendering Technical 67 2.3 SecurityListingandtheConstructionoftheGlobal Optic 74 2.4 DataInfrastructuresandthePoliticsof Formatting 103 2.5 What’sinaList?Inscription,Translation, Preemption 126 vii viii contents 3 TheListAsMultipleObject:theUNOfficeofthe Ombudsperson 131 3.1 TheLegalList:AssertingIndividualRightsandPursuing AccountabilityintheCourts 138 3.2 TheHumanitarianList:AcademicExpertiseandthe MoralEconomyofTargetedSanctions 153 3.3 TheLivingList:theISILandAl-QaidaMonitoringTeam AsAccountabilityAdvocates 178 3.4 TheCompliantList:GlobalConstitutionalismandthe UNSpecialRapporteurs 192 3.5 TheCredibleList:theSecurityCouncilP5Makingthe GlobalExceptionDurable 206 3.6 TheOmbudsperson,Expertiseand Assemblage 222 3.7 MultiplicityandExperimentationinGlobalExceptional Governance 245 4 ComplexityintheCourts:theSpatiotemporalDynamics oftheList 250 4.1 Non-SynchronousLawandtheUseofIntelligence-As- Evidence 256 4.2 Dis-LocatedLaw:TakingListingDecisionsbeyondthe VanishingPointofReview 281 4.3 SpatiotemporalDynamicsandGlobalLegal Assemblage 299 5 Conclusions 305 5.1 TheLawoftheList:KeyArguments 306 5.2 TheLawoftheList:OriginalContributions 312 5.3 FromAl-QaidatoISILandBeyond:theGlobalLawof EndlessWar 328 Bibliography 332 Index 367 FIGURES 1.1 ExcerptfromtheUN1267ISILandAl-QaidaSanctionsList page7 1.2 SocialNetworkMapofAl-QaidaaccordingtotheUN1267 listentries 22 2.1 NarrativeSummaryofReasons,showing‘associations’ withotherlistedindividuals 82 2.2 ‘EquilibriumofPossibilities’diagramprovidedbyformer MonitoringTeammemberininterview,June2014 86 2.3 The‘StaircasetoTerrorism’modelusedintheBelgianCommunity PolicingPreventingRadicalisationandTerrorism(CoPPRa) InitiativeandTrainersManual2010 89 2.4 Interpol–UnitedNationsSpecialNotice(PublicVersion),2006 106 3.1 AbousfianAbdelrazikatapressconferenceinMontreal, 15June2011 140 3.2 ParticipantsinWatsonInstituteWorkshoponUNSanctions Reform,BrownUniversity,16–17July2004 162 3.3 KimberlyProst,UN1267Ombudsperson2010–15 224 ix
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