Do sanctions from US and EU push autocracies closer to each other?
18 March, 2022
What is the biggest problem with imposing sanctions on autocracies? How are the cost of sanctions shared across the sanctioned party? Jonathan Lehne, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), talks about the "Fortress Russia" strategy and how the Russian economy's exposure to sanctions has changed since 2014.
What is the biggest problem with imposing sanctions on autocracies? How are costs of sanctions shared across the sanctioned party?
Jonathan Lehne talks about the "Fortress Russia" strategy and how the Russian economy's exposure to sanctions has changed since 2014 when the last major round of sanctions was applied towards Russia due to Crimean annexation.
