The EU’s Approach to Sanctions on Russia: A Critical Analysis of the Existing Literature
Journal: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies
Year: 2024

This article focuses on the EU's sanctions against Russia, which were adopted in several rounds after Russia’s aggressive actions against Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. This article reviews and critically examines the existing academic works on this topic. In particular, it identifies, distinguishes and analyses five types of the existing scholarship, each of which relies on a different explanatory perspective on why the EU has adopted its sanctions against Russia. These are: (1) convergence of norma