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

Programs

At the intersection of economics, finance, and foreign policy, the GeoEconomics Center is a translation hub with the goal of helping shape a better global economic future.

Content

Testimony

Jun 8, 2023

Dollar dominance: Preserving the US dollar’s status as the global reserve currency

By Dr. Carla Norrlöf

Dr. Carla Norrlöf, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, testified to the US House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy. Below are her prepared remarks for the committee on preserving the US dollar’s status as a global reserve currency.

China
Economy & Business

In the News

Jun 8, 2023

Mohseni-Cheraghlou and Aladekoba cited in The Atlantic on China growth post-derisking

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China
Economy & Business

In the News

Jun 8, 2023

Mark cited in Business Insider on institutional investors’ derisking from China

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China
Economy & Business

In the News

Jun 8, 2023

Lipsky and Graham quoted in VOA on Turkey-Russia trade

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Economy & Business
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

In the News

Jun 7, 2023

Tran cited in Marshall Billingslea’s House Committee on Financial Services written testimony on dollar dominance

Read the full written testimony here.

China
Economy & Business

IranSource

Jun 7, 2023

Iran is playing musical chairs with leadership positions. None of these individuals have been sanctioned.

By Behnam Ben Taleblu

Playing musical chairs with leadership positions provides opportunities to recalibrate and update coercive economic measures on Iran.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Iran

In the News

Jun 6, 2023

Tran cited in RAND report on US-China rivalry

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China
Economy & Business

In the News

Jun 2, 2023

Graham cited in Nature on global grain shortage from Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Russia

New Atlanticist

May 30, 2023

China is trading more with Russia—but so are many US allies and partners

By Josh Lipsky, Niels Graham

A number of countries have increased their trade with Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, including non-aligned countries and even some EU members.

China
Economy & Business

In the News

May 29, 2023

Kumar, Brownstein, Lopez-Irizarry, and Vishwanath cited by KPMG on CBDCs

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Digital Currencies
Digital Policy

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