Disciplining Disorder: A Juridical Meditation on Sanctions and Order in International Law
No. 56, Nov.-Dec. 2025 Who hasn’t heard of international sanctions these days has probably avoided reading any global news in the past decade. The annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation triggered an avalanche of reports, analyses, and commentaries about the sanctions imposed on Moscow — tens of thousands of articles published in the international press, academic centres, and political think-tanks. More recently, after February 2022, that number has increased more than fivefold, a clear sign that international sanctions have become not only instruments of foreign policy, but also products of media consumption. More
