Energy Sanctions Dashboard

This dashboard focuses on US sanctions and restrictive measures placed on crude oil from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela—including the unintended consequences and the lessons learned.

Econographics

Apr 17, 2025

Russia Sanctions Database

By Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze, Lize de Kruijf

The Atlantic Council’s Russia Sanctions Database tracks the level of coordination among Western allies in sanctioning Russian entities, individuals, vessels, and aircraft, and shows where gaps still remain.

Eastern Europe Economy & Business

Recent analysis

Åslund in The Hill: Russia’s aggression can and should cost Putin dearly

Econographics Sep 16, 2025

The Supreme Court’s decision on Trump tariffs will have lasting impact on US economic statecraft

By Stephanie Connor

Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules, the case will shape US economic policy for years to come.
Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
Åslund in The Hill: Russia’s aggression can and should cost Putin dearly

New Atlanticist Mar 28, 2024

The axis of evasion: Behind China’s oil trade with Iran and Russia

By Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze

Beijing has developed a way to import Iranian and Russian oil while bypassing the Western financial system and shipping services.
China Economy & Business
Åslund in The Hill: Russia’s aggression can and should cost Putin dearly

Testimony Feb 21, 2025

Kimberly Donovan testifies to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the Axis of Autocracy

By Kimberly Donovan

On February 20, Economic Statecraft Initiative Director Kimberly Donovan testified to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission at a hearing titled, “An Axis of Autocracy? China’s Relations with Russia, Iran, and North Korea.”
China Economy & Business

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Content

In the News

Sep 6, 2020

Åslund in The Hill: Russia’s aggression can and should cost Putin dearly

By Atlantic Council

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
International Norms

In the News

Sep 4, 2020

O’Toole quoted in The Moscow Times on US sanctions in response to Navalny’s poisoning
Europe & Eurasia
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

Event Recap

Sep 3, 2020

Expert panel responds to incidents of North Korean sanctions evasion in the DRC

By Africa Center

On Thursday, September 3, the Africa Center hosted a virtual panel to discuss the latest report published by The Sentry: Overt Affairs: How North Korean Businessmen Busted Sanctions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Sentry’s Director of Illicit Finance Policy Ms. Hilary Mossberg provided opening remarks alongside Africa Center Director of Programs and Studies Ms. Bronwyn Bruton, […]

Africa
Corruption

AfricaSource

Aug 31, 2020

A no strings attached policy toward Sudan

By Cameron Hudson

Secretary Pompeo’s stopover in Sudan last week marked another momentous step forward in the rapidly warming bilateral relationship between Sudan and the United States—the first visit to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, by a US Secretary of State in fifteen years. Unlike Condoleezza Rice’s stopover in 2005, aimed at heaping pressure and opprobrium on the country’s then-autocratic […]

Africa
Democratic Transitions

In the News

Aug 25, 2020

Ambassador Fried Quoted in NY Times on Nord Stream II

By Daniel Fried

Read the full article here.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Germany

In the News

Aug 14, 2020

Deputy Director Julia Friedlander’s Op-Ed for the Hill on the Implications of the Current Sanction Regime

By Julia Friedlander

Read the full article here.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Iran

Event Recap

Aug 14, 2020

Miller on China’s economic recovery and upcoming US-China trade relations

By Atlantic Council

On April 14, Leland Miller, nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Security Initiative, joined Yahoo Finance to talk about China’s economic recovery from COVID-19 and the future of US-China trade relations. He commented on China’s seemingly economic recovery, clarifying that the recovery on the demand side is falling behind that on the supply side. He […]

China
Economy & Business

Event Recap

Aug 13, 2020

Miller talks about WeChat on Bloomberg Surveillance

By Atlantic Council

On April 13, Leland Miller, nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Security Initiative, spoke with Bloomberg’s Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” Miller commented that the White House is not prepared for the fallout a WeChat ban might bring to US companies, and that Xi has overplayed his cards on Huawei and China […]

China
Cybersecurity

In the News

Aug 10, 2020

Deputy Director Julia Friedlander Quoted in Financial Times on Trump’s Campaign Against Beijing

By Julia Friedlander

Read the full article here.

China
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Aug 9, 2020

Slavin quoted in The Hill on the arms embargo on Iran
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Iran
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Experts

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Daniel Fried

Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow

Economic Statecraft Initiative Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Democratic Transitions

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Annie Froehlich

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

Economy & Business Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

Fellow

Hany Ghanem

Nonresident senior fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East

Americas Arabic

Fellow

Michael Greenwald

Senior Advisor to the President and CEO

GeoEconomics Center

Digital Currencies Digital Policy

Fellow

Agnia Grigas

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Energy Markets & Governance

Fellow

Sinan Hatahet

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Syria Project

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Arabic Economy & Business
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