title: The Impenetrable Russia
abstract: Scholars have increasingly emphasized the ineffectiveness of sanctions in changing the targeted state’s foreign political behavior after their will. The thesis intends to tackle this problem by examining how sanctions against Russia, in relation to Crimea, should be designed to incentivise Russia to change their behavior. The dissertation bases its research on the hypothesis that the design has to incorporate an understanding for the meanings attached to Russia’s behavior. To elucidate the latte