September 2024 Conference: Suggested Readings

For more information on issues surrounding the global repercussions of Russia-West economic warfare, please see the following suggested readings:

Abely, Christine. The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009361224.

Bordoff, Jason, and Meghan O’Sullivan. “The New Energy Order: How Governments Will Transform Energy Markets.” Foreign Affairs 104, no. 4 (August 2022): 131–44. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/energy/2022-06-07/markets-new-energy-order. 

Bromley, Hugo, and Eyck Freymann. “On Day One: An Economic Contingency Plan for a Taiwan Crisis.” Hoover Institution. Stanford University, July 2024. https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/BromleyFreymann_OnDayOne_web_240621.pdf. 

Di Comite, Francesco, and Paolo Pasimeni. “Tracking the EU Decoupling from Russia.” VoxEU. Centre for Economic Policy Research, April 14, 2023. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/tracking-eu-decoupling-russia.

Donovan, Kimberly, Maia Nikoladze, Ryan Murphy, and Alessandra Magazzino. “Russia Sanctions Database.” Atlantic Council, April 29, 2024. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/russia-sanctions-database/.

Drezner, Daniel. “The Rise of Economic Sanctions in U.S. Foreign Policy.” Econofact. Tufts University, June 25, 2024. https://econofact.org/the-rise-of-economic-sanctions-in-u-s-foreign-policy. 

Drezner, Daniel W. “Global Economic Sanctions.” Annual Review of Political Science 27, no. 1 (November 27, 2023): 9–24. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041322-032240. 

Feldstein, Steven, and Fiona Brauer. “Why Russia Has Been so Resilient to Western Export Controls.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 11, 2024. https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/03/why-russia-has-been-so-resilient-to-western-export-controls?lang=en.

Fishman, Edward. “A Tool of Attrition: What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed about Economic Sanctions.” Foreign Affairs, February 23, 2023. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/tool-attrition.

Fishman, Edward. “Make Russia Sanctions Effective Again.” War on the Rocks, October 23, 2020. https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/make-russia-sanctions-effective-again/. 

Fishman, Edward, and Chris Miller. “The Right Way to Sanction Russian Energy.” Foreign Affairs, May 17, 2022. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2022-05-17/right-way-sanction-russian-energy. 

Harrell, Peter E. “The Limits of Economic Warfare: What Sanctions on Russia Can and Cannot Achieve.” Foreign Affairs, March 27, 2023. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/limits-economic-warfare.

Hausmann, Ricardo, Ulrich Schetter, and Muhammed A. Yildirim. “On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia.” CID Working Paper Series 2022.417, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 2022. https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373388.

Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia.” CID Working Paper Series 2022.417, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 2022. https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37373388.

Helder, Zach, Mike Espy, Dan Glickman, Mike Johanns, and Devry Boughner Vorwerk. “Food Weaponization Makes a Deadly Comeback.” Foreign Affairs, March 22, 2024. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/food-weaponization-makes-deadly-comeback.

Hess, Maximilian. Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West. London: Hurst Publishers, 2023. [Recipient of the Fletcher School’s Annual US-Russia Relations Book Prize, 2024]

Hess, Maximilian. “Breaking down Financial Sanction ‘Fatbergs.’” Financial Times, March 22, 2024. https://www.ft.com/content/3a0d687e-abd9-4769-97c5-10cf8853eeb4.

Hess, Maximilian. “Russia Is Using Lawsuits to Fight the West’s Sanctions.” Foreign Policy, July 16, 2024. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/16/russia-sanctions-lawsuits-ukraine-default-belarus/. 

Inozemtsev, Vladislav. “Russia: Can Economic Difficulties Weaken the Political System?” French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), August 2021. https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/inozemtsev_russia_sanctions_2021.pdf. 

Libman, Alexander. “Dynamics of Isolation in Conditions of Fragmentation: The Results of Two Years of the Sanctions Experiment.” Re:Russia, June 4, 2024. https://re-russia.net/en/expertise/0160/. 

Libman, Alexander. “The Fundamental Weakness of the Russian Economy and Why Sanctions Do Not Exploit Them.” Russia.Post. George Washington University, July 2, 2024. https://russiapost.info/economy/fundamental_weakness. 

Libman, Alexander. “Will the Strategy of Isolating Russia Ever Work?” Russia.Post. George Washington University, January 25, 2024. https://russiapost.info/global_south/isolating. 

Liu, Zongyuan Zoe, and Mihaela Papa. Can BRICS De-Dollarize the Global Financial System? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/can-brics-dedollarize-the-global-financial-system/0AEF98D2F232072409E9556620AE09B0. 

Liu, Zongyuan Zoe. “China’s Stockpiling and Mobilization Measures for Competition and Conflict.” Testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. June 2024. https://www.cfr.org/report/chinas-stockpiling-and-mobilization-measures-competition-and-conflict. 

Paustyan, Ekaterina. “Elite Cohesion and Resilience of the Russian Regions: The Case of Belgorod Oblast.” Post-Soviet Affairs 40, no. 4 (May 18, 2024): 296–312. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586x.2024.2354940.

Luzin, Pavel. “Russia’s Kurganmashzavod Factory Data Shows the Limits of BMP-3 Production Rates.” Jamestown Foundation, July 22, 2024. https://jamestown.org/program/russias-kurganmashzavod-factory-data-shows-the-limits-of-bmp-3-production-rates/. 

Maggard, Allen. “War Machine: The Networks Supplying & Sustaining the Russian Precision Machine Tool Arsenal.” C4ADS, June 18, 2024. https://c4ads.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/War-Machine-C4ADS-Report.pdf. 

Miller, Chris. “The Impact of Semiconductor Sanctions on Russia.” American Enterprise Institute, April 2, 2024. https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-impact-of-semiconductor-sanctions-on-russia/. 

Miller, Chris, and Caroline Nowak. “Roadblocks Ahead: The Impact of Sanctions on the Russian Auto Industry.” American Enterprise Institute, August 22, 2024. https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/roadblocks-ahead/. 

Moll, B., Schularick, M., & Zachmann, G. (2023). “The power of substitution: The great German gas debate in retrospect.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, August 27, 2023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqVdmDxrhvO3im5PQokmVkHHDVqYjGOj/view?usp=sharing

Ruggi, Turner. “Counterstrategies to Economic Warfare: A Strategic Framework in a World of Weaponised Interdependence.” The RUSI Journal 168, no. 7 (2023): 60–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071847.2024.2307171.

Swanson, Ana. “Why Sanctions Haven’t Hobbled Russia.” New York Times, February 16, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/briefing/russian-sanctions.html.

Utkin, Sergey. “A Deep Divide: The Long-Term EU-Russia Decoupling.” Clingendael Spectator. Clingendael Institute, November 9, 2023. https://spectator.clingendael.org/en/publication/deep-divide-long-term-eu-russia-decoupling.

Vakulenko, Sergey. “A Naval Blockade of Russian Oil Exports Risks a Military Showdown.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 24, 2024. https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/07/naval-blockade-russia-oil?lang=en. 

Vakulenko, Sergey. “The Flaw in the Plan to Cap Russian Oil Prices.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 8, 2022. https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2022/09/the-flaw-in-the-plan-to-cap-russian-oil-prices?lang=en. 

Van Der Horst, Ron. “Illegal, Unless: Freezing the Assets of Russia’s Central Bank.” European Journal of International Law 34, no. 4 (November 2023): 1021–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad053.

Watling, Jack, and Gary Somerville. “A Methodology for Degrading the Arms of the Russian Federation.” Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), June 24, 2024. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/methodology-degrading-arms-russian-federation. 

Whang, Taehee, and Wooyeal Paik. “Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracies: A Study of Cases from China and Russia.” International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 4 (September 11, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad093.