30
March 2017
Past Event
U.S. Sanctions on Russia: Evaluating Impacts and Costs

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

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
March 30, 2017
Pedestrians walk through Red Square on March 3, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Pedestrians walk through Red Square on March 3, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
30
March 2017
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
H. E. Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Founder, Rasmussen Global; former Secretary General of NATO; and former prime minister of Denmark

Ambassador Sandy Vershbow

Distinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO

Ambassador Paula Dobriansky

Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University and former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs

Peter Rough Hudson Institute
Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

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 was 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 was 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.

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