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A yr into the conflict in Ukraine, financial sanctions stay the West’s strongest instrument towards Russia. But the Russian economic system has confirmed surprisingly resilient: Russia nonetheless sells oil to Turkey and China, and – in accordance with a recent investigation by The Economist and SourceMaterial – the Kremlin’s sanctions-dodging is turning into more and more superior.
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jim O’Brien, head of the workplace of sanctions coordination on the US State Department, to debate the efficacy of financial sanctions. What ripple results have sanctions had for Western and third nations? Is the United States presently mulling sanctions towards China? And what options are there, if sanctions not work as meant?
This podcast was recorded on 6 March 2023.
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James C. O’Brien seems earlier than a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations listening to for his nomination to be head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination
James C. O’Brien seems earlier than a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations listening to for his nomination to be head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination
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