"The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a critical geopolitical issue with far-reaching implications. Understanding the impact of economic sanctions against Russia in this context provides insights into how nations use economic coercion to influence international events. Because economic sanctions have significant ramifications, studying their effects is crucial for businesses, policymakers, economists, and the public at large. In this book, the editor selected six studies written by researchers from diverse perspectives who all have the particularity to be specialised in economic coercion and/or Russia. We are offering a unique overview of very specific themes that have not been examined before: how can a boycott of Russian oil strengthen/weaken Russia's tendency to autocracy? What are the sociological repercussions for Russian science? Was Russia's import-substitution strategy and industrial production affected by Western sanctions? Which factors influenced firms' decisions to suspend or withdraw business operations in Russia? How were high-tech exports of Russian small and medium-sized enterprises influenced by sanctions? This book will not leave these questions unanswered, and will even go beyond by offering a final chapter that provides a complete and comprehensive assessment of economic sanctions' impact on the Russian economy, covering sanctions implemented between 2014 and 2023"--

This study examines the impact of sanctions on Russian firms and the strategies these firms adopt to counter the effects of targeted sanctions. We utilize institutional theory to explain how firms shape their strategic responses as they balance the institutional pressures from their home environment vis-à-vis sanctioning countries. We gather longitudinal data on Russian firms that faced foreign sanctions from the start of the invasion of Crimea in 2014 until 2020. Our empirical analyses indicate that sanctions do not have a persistent negative effect on the economic performance of Russian firms. We discuss the empirical findings with the help of a series of illustrative examples of specific actions that Russian firms undertook in response to the sanctions. We conclude that while targeted sanctions create symbolic meaning in foreign relations and create financial friction for targeted firms, firms use a variety of adaptation strategies that negate the economic impact of these sanctions.

The first in-depth scholarly analysis of the effects of Western sanctions, and Russia's response on the Russian economy.

This report studies the impact of Western sanctions imposed on Russia since 2014 over the crisis in Ukraine. Providing a European point of view, the report also makes recommendations as to how sanctions could be used effectively and efficiently to produce a diplomatic settlement of the crisis.

This book presents a cutting-edge analysis of the economic effects and challenges of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a special focus on EU sanctions on Russian energy and Ukraine’s political relationship with the European Union in a global context. Welfens outlines key macroeconomic perspectives on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, highlighting in particular how sanctions posed by the international community will have a wider economic impact than what has so far been envisaged. The book discusses the effects of Russian gas supply boycotts against Western countries as well as global effects of an EU energy import boycott on Russia, especially for China and the Asian continent. An innovative proposal to cut electricity prices is presented. It also explores the challenges to relations between the EU, China and Russia caused by the invasion, the effects of the unfolding refugee crisis (within a post-Brexit EU), military and humanitarian aid pledges to Ukraine, and the risks of reduced multilateralism within the world economy as a direct result of the war. The book also analyses the risks and benefits of potential enlargement of the EU to integrate Ukraine as a member state. The topics covered by the book are all set within a long-run view of diplomatic and economic relations between the West, Russia and Ukraine. The factors analysed here provide a new, broader picture of the international effects of the conflict, as well as its potential implications for policy design as we enter a new global order marked by the Russo-Ukrainian war. The book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers working in international economics, new political economy, European politics and integration, and macroeconomics more broadly.