title: Lithuania’s Sanctions Response to the Geopolitical Polycrisis: Reducing the Gap between Maximalist Aims and Limited Capacities
abstract: The article assesses how the Lithuanian authorities used sanctions as a response to the polycrisis engendered by the aggressive behaviour of Russia and its allies in 2020–2025. It investigates what ideas informed Lithuania’s sanctions policy, how it was designed and implemented, and how the consequences of sanctions were managed as the polycrisis evolved. Sanctions as a crisis management tool are treated as part of the escalation/de-escalation of relations between conflicting parties, which can 
journal: Politologija