THE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AS THE INSTRUMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY
Journal: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Year: 2017

The article surveys the definitional issues of the economic sanctions in the international relations theory. It opens with a review of the conceptual background of the economic sanctions through the prism of the methodological approaches of political realism, liberalism and constructivism and then goes on to explore the variables of the efficiency of economic sanctions as foreign policy tool. In conclusion, we discuss the suggestions for perspectives of further research and development of econom