U.S. Sanctions on Russia: Evaluating Impacts and Costs

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For the past three years, the United States and our allies have been locked in confrontation with Russia over its intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. After an initial debate, American policymakers responded to Russian aggression with sanctions linked to implementation of the Minsk agreement.
Our European partners regularly debate Russia sanctions—with a special eye on the costs they impose due to Europe’s large business exposure to Russian markets. Here in the U.S., discussion tends to focus on the impact of sanctions on Russia itself. But in either case, the arrival of new leadership at the White House provides an obvious and natural inflection point to reassert the efficacy of sanctions as a tool of U.S. and Western policy toward Russia.
Hudson Institute is honored to welcome H. E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of NATO and prime minister of Denmark, to discuss Sanctions on Russia: Impacts and Economic Costs on the United States, a new report commissioned by Rasmussen Global and prepared by the Graduate Institute of International Studies. He will be joined by Ambassador Sandy Vershbow and Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, both experts on Russia and sanctions, for a discussion moderated by Hudson Institute Fellow Peter Rough.
 
H. E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the founder of Rasmussen Global, a consultancy. He served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009. He resigned as prime minister to become the 12th Secretary General of NATO in August 2009, a position he held until September 2014. Ambassador Alexander “Sandy” Vershbow is a distinguished fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council. A longtime career foreign service officer, Ambassador Vershbow also served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1998-2001), the Russian Federation (2001-2005), and South Korea (2005-2008). Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky is a senior fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In her more than quarter century of public service, Ambassador Dobriansky has held numerous Senate-confirmed and high-level government positions, including Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs from 2001 to 2009. Peter Rough is a fellow at Hudson Institute, where his research is focused on a range of national security issues.
 
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