# Sanction

> Sanction is mapped as the table beyond borders: it coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:international-governance:sanction` |
| Family | International Governance & Diplomacy |
| Domain | International |
| Kind | institution |
| Archetypal function | The Table Beyond Borders |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Sanction belongs to the **International Governance & Diplomacy** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Sanction coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Sanction, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Table Beyond Borders.** Sanction is mapped as the table beyond borders: it coordinates sovereign actors through law, negotiation, institutions, leverage, and norms.

## Gift

enables cooperation and limits some forms of force; through Sanction, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

reflects unequal power, veto, selective enforcement, and distance from publics; Sanction can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Sanction to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Table Beyond Borders enters through Sanction. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Sanction becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Sanction; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **institutionalizes — Arbitration:** Arbitration institutionalizes Sanction by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Embargo:** Sanction counteracts Embargo by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **constrains — Zapatismo:** Zapatismo constrains Sanction by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — Minority Leader:** Sanction legitimizes Minority Leader by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Sanction from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Sanction is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Sanction: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Charter of the United Nations](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text) — United Nations, 1945. International institutional order, sovereignty, security, and cooperation.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.
- [United Nations Peacekeeping](https://peacekeeping.un.org/en) — United Nations, ongoing. Mission, mandates, operations, and limitations from the institution's perspective.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
