The problem is that sanctions do not always work. In fact, isolation and shaming may boost national pride and a country’s sense of cohesion, inadvertently helping support the regime in power. International sanctions can backfire, causing a country’s elites to band together in opposition, wearing the stigma as a badge of honor. Indeed, just days after U.S. and European sanctions were announced, Moscow imposed countersanctions on the U.S., and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle started bragging about being on the West’s most-wanted list. Vladislav Surkov, a close aide to Putin, said after the first round of sanctions that he considered the blacklist a “kind of political Oscar from America for best male supporting role.”
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 04:09:05 +0000
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