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Obama has already made it clear that the US understands that Modi’s willingness to cooperate with Russia, despite Western sanctions imposed on the country, stems from India’s desire to discourage a Sino-Russian alliance against it.
At the dinner, Putin reiterated his promise to protect the oligarchs’ fortunes from American and European sanctions.
The law obliges the Kremlin to compensate oligarchs for any foreign assets that they lose as a result of Western sanctions.
Just a few months ago, Putin assured everyone that Russia’s economy would weather the European and American sanctions easily.
Indeed, providing Ukraine with assistance is far more important than punishing Russia with sanctions.
Sanctions must be maintained for as long as the Kremlin and the Ukrainian separatists it has supported fail to comply with the Minsk Protocol, but it is important to begin to bring Russia out of the cold.
The Chinese, insists a broad coalition of politicians, business leaders, and academic economists, must revalue or face sanctions.
We can do more to end child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, and discrimination against girls, by not only demanding the proper policing of domestic laws, but also by establishing a new International Children’s Court, buttressed by a credible reporting and sanctions system.
At the time, it was agreed that a Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, whose work is backed by the threat of sanctions, would also be established.
Today, a similar post – underpinned by the same system of reporting and sanctions – should be created to focus on children’s other rights.
Indeed, even Russia – whose military intervention in Ukraine has led the West to impose strict economic sanctions – offers annual yield of less than 6% on ten-year bonds.
Why Sanctions on Russia Don’t WorkMOSCOW – The Western approach to Russia is predicated on the supposition that continued pressure on the country will cause President Vladimir Putin’s regime to make concessions or even crumble.
The assumption underlying the efficacy of Western sanctions is that the sharp economic deterioration that results from them will turn the Russian public, particularly the financial and political elite, against the Kremlin.
Opinion polls show that Russians perceive Western pressure and sanctions to be aimed not at Putin and his cronies, but at Russia and its citizens.
Compounding the challenge are the economic sanctions imposed by the US and Europe in response to President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive policies toward Russia’s immediate neighborhood.
Tough sanctions and constraints, it is said, would also be able to induce debt discipline.
Last year, the Saudis led a coalition of Arab countries – including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain – in isolating Qatar diplomatically and imposing sanctions.
We in Europe can draw our own red line, warning Russia that, if the line is crossed, we will increase sanctions against it as a state henceforth held to be responsible for the crimes of its Syrian vassal.
Today, Iran’s enrichment program is going ahead despite the United Nations Security Council’s warnings of new sanctions, while Iranian officials publicly ridicule threats of US military action.
While Saudi production policies were clearly behind last year’s halving of the oil price, the latest plunge began on July 6, within days of the deal to lift international sanctions against Iran.
Once sanctions are lifted, Iran promises to double oil exports almost immediately to two million barrels daily, and then to double exports again by the end of the decade.
In his original plan for an International Clearing Bank, the British economist John Maynard Keynes proposed an escalating range of sanctions against member states that maintained continuous credit balances (and less onerous sanctions on countries with persistent debt balances).
First, Keynes’s plan would have automatically levied sanctions against persistent creditors, whereas the EU’s framework has proved incapable of doing so.
Given that eurozone members rejected even the idea of automatic sanctions for countries with excessive deficits, they are not likely to countenance such a wide ranging loss of sovereignty.
In exchange for inspection and monitoring of nuclear sites, the international economic sanctions imposed years ago on Iran will be lifted.
But the Bush administration pressured the UK government to veto a deal along these lines, arguing that more concessions could be extracted from the Iranians if they were squeezed harder and threatened with tougher sanctions and even a military response.
Congress always pays attention to squeaky wheels, and special interests press it to legislate foreign-policy tactics, codes of conduct, and sanctions for other countries.
The Iranian economy is sclerotic and stands to be crippled by the latest wave of sanctions.
Netanyahu threatens to upend Obama’s carefully constructed international consensus concerning sanctions and containment of Iran – a consensus that averts regional mayhem.
Trade sanctions foster smuggling and smugglers are usually in cahoots with authorities, so that sanctions strengthen the governments they are supposed to topple.
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