The US has frozen tens of billions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Russians and their government. A legal scholar explains why confiscating them is a bit trickier.
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Canada has played the role of a global peace advocate before. Rarely has the world needed it more than right now.
In recent years, Western governments have, in effect, aided the rise of personalist dictators in Russia, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Venezuela.
Personalist dictators tend to shield the elites who support them from the economic pain of sanctions by pushing costs onto regular people.
A closer look at Bitcoin transactions suggests ordinary Russians are the ones buying more cryptocurrency, hoping to hang onto savings as the ruble’s value plummets.
The targeting of elite interests has been at the centre of recent sanctions policies, including sanctions on Russia. We look at the effectiveness of targeting in Iran in the 2010s.
Over-reliance on sanctions and economic warfare measures have led to strategic complacency and the avoidance of negotiations on the part of the western governments.
With Russia’s “great power status” tied closely to economic power, the country’s crumbling economy is putting Putin’s claims to legitimacy at risk.
Warring countries have ben imposing sanctions on their enemies for hundreds of years. They have met with mixed success.
Some economic sanctions may violate international law principles, including those the sanctions are intended to enforce. They may therefore undermine the very legal regimes Canadians champion.
As the world rightfully fears for the Ukrainian people, we must not turn a blind eye to Russians who are also Putin’s victims and will suffer the most from economic sanctions.
The EU, UK and US hold considerable leverage, but they need to make complex calculations about how to use it.
Approximately 69% of Russians approve of President Vladimir Putin. But a costly war is likely to chip away at his popularity, history and data tell us.
The Biden administration has threatened severe sanctions if Russia were to invade Ukraine. An economic sanctions scholar explains why they probably won’t be effective.
A scholar of cyber conflict sets out why retaliation doesn’t prevent future attacks, and explains what might have a better chance.
For one, you can’t break an economy that’s already broken.
The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
Trump announced ‘hard-hitting’ new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
Food and medical aid at Venezuela’s borders could spark a revolution.
Private companies – many based in the US – are blocking access to their websites from particular countries around the world. It’s contributing to a splintering of the global internet.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Assistant Professor, Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Professor Emeritus, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Senior lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Lecturer Banking and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Global Business and Board Member of the Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies, St Mary's College of California
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Professor of Law, Washburn University
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PhD Candidate in Political Economy, King's College London
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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William Saywell Professor of International Business, Simon Fraser University
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Reader in International Relations, University of Sussex
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Researcher and founder member of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba
