Sanctions as an EU Normative Foreign Policy Instrument and Their Imposition on Russia Over Ukraine
Journal: Modern Historical and Political Issues
Year: 2022

We are currently witnessing the emergence of an entirely new reality in which the normative foreign policy actors moving beyond power politics are based on the argumentative force of their norms themselves, and seek to make the highly visible normative impact in the form of socialization, partnership or joint ownership. The urgent need of such actors to accumulate and even sometimes use material capabilities is mainly dictated by the fact that some states outside the “normative” limits continue