The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia

Meissner, Katharina L.; Graziani, Chiara

doi:10.1080/07036337.2023.2190105

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“…From a geopolitical perspective, sanctions can be understood as a tool to promote foreign policy and security goals through economic means – they are a form of economic statecraft. Scholarship finds in recent studies that even the EU increasingly makes use of sanctions as economic statecraft ( Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ) as will also be shown in this article. Under the condition of geopolitical concerns, we would expect decision-makers to opt for large scale sanctions which impose high costs on the target state (e.g.…”

Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Increasing attention is paid to geostrategic considerations in analyzing EU external relations and the respective policy decisions (e.g. Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ; Nitoiu and Sus 2019 ). This shift is also evident in the literature on sanctions and studies on how policy-makers adopt and design sanctions packages ( Hedberg 2018 ; Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ).…”

Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ; Nitoiu and Sus 2019 ). This shift is also evident in the literature on sanctions and studies on how policy-makers adopt and design sanctions packages ( Hedberg 2018 ; Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ). Hedberg (2018) , for instance, proposes a perspective on the design of Russian countersanctions against Europe which she labels ‘differentiated retaliation’.…”

Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compared to smart, targeted sanctions they discriminate the least among the population of the target state and, thus, come with high costs for the country, its sectors and population ( Biersteker et al. 2013 ; Meissner 2023 ; Meissner and Graziani 2023 ).…”

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Caught up by Geopolitics: Sanctions and the EU’s Response to Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Meissner

2023

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Russia’s war against Ukraine unfolded unprecedented geopolitical, economic and energy-related tension in the European Union (EU). Amidst this situation, decision-makers and scholars alike have returned to concepts of geopolitics to reflect the EU’s external affairs and its position in the international (trade) system. Indeed, geopolitical considerations help us to understand the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia. The restrictive measures against Russia and the Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine are, to date, the most comprehensive measures adopted autonomously by the EU. They reflect the EU’s geopolitical considerations in carving out a strong response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and the unparalleled political and security threat in Europe.

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Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geopolitical Considerations In Sanctions Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Caught up by Geopolitics: Sanctions and the EU’s Response to Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Meissner

2023

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“…The fourth fundamental change has to do with EU sanctions. In contrast to 2014, the sanctions imposed on Russia are radical and ‘unprecedented comprehensive’ (Meissner and Graziani 2023, p. 390). At the time of writing, the EU had adopted eleven sanctions packages against Russia in response to the war (and imposed sanctions on Belarus for its involvement in the war) (European Council/Council of the EU 2023a).…”

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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything

Casier

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine

ten Oever,

Perarnaud,

Kristoff

et al. 2024

Policy & Internet

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In this paper, we interrogate the sanctions instated against Russian media by the European Union (EU) in response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. We do this in three ways. First, we present the outcome of extensive network measurements that show the heterogeneous implementation of the sanctions in EU Member States. Second, we explain how the sanctions fit the EU's digital sovereignty agenda. And third, we theorise the EU's digital sovereignty policies and sanctions as the emergence of a repressive state apparatus that forms a metagovernance regime with the ideological state apparatus of multistakeholder internet governance. We explain how networks are shaped in the dialectical relation between the ideological and repressive state apparatuses by showing how multistakeholder internet governance aims to stay politically neutral to accommodate the politics of different repressive state apparatuses. In turn, repressive state apparatuses define their demands in a technologically neutral way so multistakeholder internet governance can continue to develop and adapt communication networks. This research combines methods from Computer Science with theoretical frameworks from European Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies and International Relations. Through this work, we aim to contribute to the practice of interdisciplinary analysis of communication networks and debates on digital sovereignty, European infrastructuralisation, and internet governance.

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The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Caught up by Geopolitics: Sanctions and the EU’s Response to Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Caught up by Geopolitics: Sanctions and the EU’s Response to Russia’s War Against Ukraine

The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything

Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine

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