Typical and Nontrivial Goals of New Sanctions Against Russia

Six months of fighting for a new package of targeted sanctions against Russia ended up on August 2 with the President of the United States Donald Trump signing the "The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" in the edition approved by the Senate on July 25.

The overwhelming majority of Russian experts and politicians agreed in advance that the US president would not use his power of veto. The Kremlin has also explained mirror sanctions imposition against the United States on July 28 with the very same argument that, one of the leading specialists in a classification of sanctions according to their objectives, we will see a complicated case conflicting with theory. " published almost 20 years ago.

One of the central themes of aforementioned work is an explanation of why and how business in the US should interact with the state when it comes to securing national interests with unilateral restrictive measures. So, an unconcealed task to “ Giumelli F. 2012. Coercing, Constraining and Signalling: Explaining and Understanding International Sanctions after the end of the Cold War. Colchester: European Consortium for Political Research Press. 200 pp.