SANCTION NOUMENON: THE AGONY OF CRISIS THROUGH THE PRISM OF LOSSES. PART 1. SANCTIONS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GEOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
The use of sanctions in the system of world economic relations is not a product of the present day. In the conditions of modernity, they get a new sound, becoming an alternative to the use of military force, demonstrating the erosion of the established rules of the game and the weakness of the existing institutions, illustrate the new reality of international coalitions. They act as a demonstration of the state's rigid intentions. The aim of the study is to investigate sanctions as the most common foreign policy tool, which has a prominent place in the external-non-political tools and acts as a means of forcing the target countries to meet the economic and political requirements of the initiator country. At the same time, the research highlights mechanisms minimizing sanctions pressure and describes new ways of circumventing sanctions. The study is based on the dialectical approach, using the methods of historical, logical and empirical analysis. The authors substantiate the problems of restrictive measures in international relations and describe the subject-object identifiers of the sanctions’ impact on Russia. The study formulates the target function of the sanctions pressure and defines the strategies for overcoming sanctions within the existing experience, its basic elements and tools-antidotes.