title: Anxiety and Fantasy: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Continuity of the EUʼs Sanctions Policy Regarding Russia and Myanmar
abstract: This article employs Lacanian psychoanalysis to explain why the EU maintains its sanctions against Russia and Myanmar despite their questionable effectiveness. The framework moves beyond traditional identity, normative and interest-based explanations. By integrating existential concerns with psychoanalytic insights, this article illuminates the understudied emotional dimensions of the EU sanctions policy, offering a deeper understanding of the sanctions policy continuity through the nonconscious
journal: Czech Journal of International Relations