The Legal Dynamics of Restrictive Measures Imposed by the Union against Russia
Journal: Athens Journal of Law
Year: 2025

From the sieges of ancient fortresses—such as Homer’s legendary Troy or Caesar’s campaign at Alesia, exemplifying the discipline the ancient Greeks termed Polykleitos—to the Ottoman blockade of Constantinople and, subsequently, Napoleon’s continental blockade of British trade; from the sugar boycotts in the French Antilles and Gandhi’s resistance to the salt tax, to contemporary embargoes imposed by the United States against communist Cuba or Iraq, the history of international sanctions illustra