Forcing Russia to Respect Minsk Protocols with dollar auction-game model
Journal: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Year: 2018

Four years of active international sanctions against Russia have brought no signs of visible progress, neither in terms of respecting Ukrainian territorial integrity or the agreements of Minsk and Sevastopol, nor in terms of Putin's regime leaving power. The EU-US negative conditionality (sanctions) against Russia seems to be losing its momentum despite new measures taken and prolonged in 2017. Russia's annexation of Crimea as well as the separatist control across the strategically important ind