Экономические санкции в международном праве: некоторые вопросы теории и практики применения

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of some current legal issues ofthe international sanctions and the practice of their application. The article makes comparative analysis of (he views of national and foreign researchers on the notion and conditions ofthe application of economic sanctions. The author, opposing the broader interpretation of the content of that term, suggests considering as international economic sanctions only those measures of economic coercion, which are applied by the international organizations towards the states, that have violated the principles and standards of international law. From the point of view of the rightfulness and effectiveness the author subjects to the critical analysis most of the actions of the economic coercion which have taken place during the last decades. The article concludes that only the measures of economic influence applied within the framework of the institute of international responsibity of states meet the criteria of rightfulness and effectiveness. Some states' assumption of the right to apply economic coercion only at their own discretion leads to the arbitrariness in international relations.