credibility of threat of sectoral sanctions

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Barack Obama, Dictatorship, France, Germany, International Law, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Ukraine June 14, 2014

Distracted by Iraq and the World Cup: Pacifism and Appeasement continue to dictate West’s “non-response” to blatant Russian aggression in the eastern Ukraine (revised and updated June 18, 2014)

Last Revised and Updated June 18, 2014 Distracted by Iraq and the World Cup, the leaders of the West seem to have forgotten about the…

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Barack Obama, Crimea, Czechoslovakia, Deutschland, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, NATO, Russia, sanctions, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, United States, use of force June 5, 2014

Francois Hollande’s dinner diplomacy with Obama and Putin; France’s decision to proceed with the sale of warships to Russia to be based in the Crimea; NATO’s failure to increase forward-based troop deployments in the East

Francois Hollande’s Dinner Diplomacy and France’s Undercutting of the West For a droll account of French President Francois Hollande’s dinner plans Thursday evening in Paris,…