The Legal Subjects’ Actions Coordination within the Sanctional Legal Relations

In the domestic legal doctrine, there is currently a growing interest to study problems of international sanctions law, but the methodology of relevant studies is lacking. The author offers his own understanding of the main elements of sanctional legal relations’ structure, which determines the relevance of the research. Objective: to analyse the elements of the sanctional legal relations’ logical structure from the point of view of the coordination approach to the cognition of legal phenomena. Methods: the study is based on the method of system analysis, which is supplemented by methods of formal logic (in terms of induction and deduction), as well as special legal techniques for interpreting legal norms. Results: the study revealed problems in determining the prerequisites for the emergence of sanctions legal relations, the problem of uncertainty of sanctions actions and the subjects’ operations and participants of these legal relations, deficiencies in determining the results of sanctions legal relations. The author also presents the relevant characteristics of antisanction legal relations as relations arising in the field of application of retaliatory state and legal measures.