Arina Pimenova

At the turn of the century, trade between Europe and Asia began to grow rapidly, which required new logistics and infrastructure routes for faster and cheaper delivery of goods from one part of the continent to another. “One Belt – One Road” is the most global economic project of the People’s Republic of China: the country is actively promoting this project, it is its main foreign policy priority. The purpose of the article is to consider the reasons for its launching, directions, routes, shortcomings of the economic belt of the New Silk Road and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road; to analyze what benefits it brings for other states to take part in this project. The result of the article is a description of China’s actions mechanism and assessment of the project viability as a whole.

The article briefly discusses the conditions, criteria, regimes and forms of sanctions measures, which are not related to the use of armed forces, their goals and methods of implementation by the United Nations Security Council in order to ensure international security and order, as well as the authority of the Security Council to apply these measures. In addition, the history of the evolution of sanctions in the system of international relations is traced.