Do Sanctions from US and EU Push Autocracies Closer to Each Other?

What is the biggest problem with imposing sanctions on autocracies? How costs of sanctions are shared across the sanctioned party?

Jonathan Lehne talks about the "Fortress Russia" strategy and how the Russian economy's exposure to sanctions has changed since 2014 when the last major round of sanctions was applied toward Russia due to the Crimean annexation.

Jonathan Lehne is a Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on elections, bureaucracies, and governance in developing countries.

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