Sanctions as a Tool for the Coercion of States: Ideological Aspect

The implementation of sanctions as an instrument of policy implementation is deeply rooted in the history of international relations. The sanctions restrictions themselves may concern not only the economic but also the political, diplomatic and other spheres of activity. The goal of sanctions has always been the same - to influence the target country without the use of complex military actions, weakening it and pushing for political capitulation. Economic sanctions are today one of the most effective forms of pressure. It is because, in the context of the creation of a single global market, economic relations have become important, respectively, their gap leads to significant costs. This article is devoted to the analysis of sanctions instruments used by international actors to exert pressure on sovereign States. The purpose of sanctions is to influence the target country without the use of complex military actions, weakening it and pushing for political capitulation. The authors note that the United States, which is the main driving force of the sanctions policy, uses it to solve its geo-economic and geopolitical problems. At the same time, the West, which seeks to preserve the existing liberal world order, and, in particular, the United States, losing the status of a global hegemon, uses the principles of neo-modernism as a new philosophical basis for its ideology.

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