The oil price cap and embargo on Russia are working imperfectly, and defects must be fixed
Blog post at the Peterson Institute...
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Der Westen muss Putins Finanzreserven stilllegen
Interview im Spiegel (online und druck): Here...
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Toughening Financial Sanctions on Russia
Enforcing Energy Sanctions and Reducing Shadow Reserves Effectively Financial sanctions are key in enforcing restrictions on Russian energy exports – in particular the G7/EU oil price cap regime –, due to financial insti...
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Russia’s War Economy and the Impact of Sanctions on Military Production
Oped published in Internationale Politik Quarterly, Die Welt, Corriere della Serra, Le Monde, Helsingin Sanomat One year after February 24, the date of Russia’s brutal and massive attack on Ukraine, the war does not seem...
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Russia’s War Economy
How Sanctions Reduce Military Capacity Our latest policy brief is here...
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Kein Despot kann Wind und Sonne abschalten aber neue Abhängigkeiten müssen gemanagt werden
Russland und China offenbaren unser Erpressungspotenzial. Erneuerbare Energien können es verringern – auch in der Bundeswehr. Denn Energiepolitik ist Sicherheitspolitik. Ein Gastbeitrag im Tagesspiegel. Russlands Angriff...
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Warum die Russland Sanktionen wirken
Mein Artikel in der Internationalen Polik, Internationale Politik, Nov/Dez 2022, pp 66-69. (link)....
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Germany’s Fear of Russian Gas Squeeze is Misplaced
My Financial Times letter. The Ukrainian economist Oleg Ustenko is right in highlighting that energy sanctions against Russia are not working. What is worse, they may have even helped fill Putin’s coffers. Russia is the ...
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For Europe, a gradual oil embargo is not the way to go
Our op-ed on Politico The European Commission’s plan to target Russian oil in its latest sanctions package aims to ramp up the pressure on Moscow. Oil is a major source of hard currency for Russia, and since the introduc...
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