Ծայրահեղականությունը համաշխարհային տնտեսությունում. պատժամիջոցների մեջ «թաթախված» կյանք / Extremism in the World Economy: Life Deep in Sanctions

Abstract

Recently, sanctions have become a unique tool for regulating foreign relations and forcibly limiting the economic opportunities of other countries. In this regard, 2022 is an unprecedented year in terms of scope, coverage and scalability of sanctions. Although the practice of imposing sanctions is accompanied by “noise and shout” of humanism and pacifism, their main motivation is “political expediency”. The latter is justified by the use of double standards when imposing sanctions on a particular country that exhibits similar behavior. Based on the well-known Russian-Ukrainian events of 2022, the West “flooded” Russia with a stream of sanctions. As of November 9, the US, Canada, Switzerland, EU, UK, France, Australia and Japan have imposed a total of 12,747 sanctions against Russia. The sanctions packages also include a ban on imports from Russia of a number of vital resources that are, in fact, critical to the economy of the sanctioners themselves. In such circumstances, it is still difficult to clearly assess which of the parties will be more deeply "mired" in losses as a result of all this.