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Wine and Diamonds: How North Korea Dodges Sanctions
TOKYO — The United Nations detailed on Friday how North Korea gets around international sanctions designed to hobble the government and its nuclear weapons program. President ...
By Peter Harrell
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Tillerson's departure imperils Iran deal, shifts path on Venezuela oil sanctions: analysts
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had removed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, a move likely to end US involvement in the Iran nuclear deal and alter the adminis...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Economic Sanctions Outlook
The Atlantic Council held a series of panels on the Trump Administration’s use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool. Representatives from the State and Treasury Depa...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Controversy Over Trump And Russia Sanctions Isn’t Going Away
The Trump administration has yet to prove it is fully complying with new Russian sanctions legislation just over one month after the State Department sparked a wave of critici...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump administration weighed sanctions against major Chinese banks tied to North KoreasWhen President Trump announced new sanctions against North Korea last week, he called them the “strongest . . . we have ever put on a country.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuch...
By Peter Harrell
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US Looking East After Fining Europe Over Iran Business
The US effort to put Iran in a financial bind meant European banks were paying big fines and closing off its money flows amid severe sanctions on the country’s banking and ene...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Why Venezuela Should Worry About a National Crypto
While not many things are clear about Venezuela's new state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, what is apparent is that many think it's potentially harmful for the country's pe...
By Edoardo Saravalle
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Iran’s Sanctions Evasion Went East After Europe Cracked Down
The U.S. effort to put Iran in a financial vice was working. European banks were paying big fines and closing off its money flows, and severe sanctions on the country’s bankin...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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4 things to know about the Trump budget’s environmental cuts
Like last year’s budget, the Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposes large cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency. And it eliminates explicit climate change programs ...
By Neil Bhatiya
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An Abundance of Sanctions Bills May Be Constraining Foreign Policy
Sanctions are a bit like antibiotics: best used sparingly to target a specific adversary. But lawmakers are increasingly looking to sanctions — one of the few pieces of major ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Russian Spy Chief Reportedly Met With U.S. Intelligence Officials
Rachel Martin talks to Peter Harrell of the Center for a New American Security about reports that Russia's foreign spy service chief, despite being on a U.S. sanctions blackli...
By Peter Harrell
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Countering North Korea's Financing of its Weapons Programs
Military solutions to containing and potentially reversing North Korea’s weapons programs have dominated the discussion, but there are other means available to the United Stat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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National Security Human Capital Program / Energy, Economics & Security
WMD Financing Elusive on International Playing FieldSigal Mandelker, undersecretary of terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and ...
By Jonathan Brewer
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Trump Administration Admits It Cribbed From Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List”
The striking similarity between a newly released Treasury Department report of Russian oligarchs and a 2017 list of wealthy Russians published in Forbes magazine is no coincid...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump Administration Says No to New Russia Sanctions, Yes to Cribbing From Forbes
With an impending congressional deadline for fresh sanctions on Russia, the Donald Trump administration engaged in a series of confused moves Monday that ended with no new pen...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Russian Billionaires Are Scrambling to Stay Off a New US ‘Black List’
Last August, Congress sent President Trump a clear signal that he could not be trusted when it comes to Russia; A near-unanimous, bipartisan majority delivered a bill to the p...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Coming U.S. List of Oligarchs Linked to Putin Alarms Russia’s Richr
WASHINGTON — It was all but ignored last year when it was wrapped into a sanctions law punishing Russian aggressions. But in recent weeks, a requirement that the United States...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. Sanctions Weapon Is Under Threat — but Not From Bitcoin
Venezuela’s announcement that it will soon launch its own virtual currency, “El Petro,” with the express idea of evading U.S. financial sanctions, set alarm bells ringing in W...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Enemy of the State
On June 6, 2016, Bill Browder, a London-based billionaire, sent an email to Kyle Parker, a congressional staffer, with the subject line “Veselnitskaya house.” The email, which...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Donald Trump says US could 'go back' into Paris climate agreement
President Donald Trump has said that the US could "go back" into the Paris climate deal - having withdrawn America from the global accord last year. "We could conceivably go b...
By Neil Bhatiya