TY  - BOOK
AU  - SIEGEL David
TI  - From Oligarchs to Oligarchy: the failure of U.S. sanctions on Russia and its implications for theories of informal politics
PY  - 2022///
KW  - INFORMAL POLITICS
KW  - OLIGARCHY
KW  - RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY
KW  - U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
KW  - SANCTIONS
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - POLICY THEORY
N2  - Drawing heavily on theories about Russia's informal politics, American sanctions were designed to change Russian foreign policy by exploiting political conflict among oligarchs and the state elite; however, after nearly eight years of sanctions, Russian elites seem more united than ever. I propose that Russia's oligarchs-the ruthless self-interested economic elite in Russia's informal political system-might sometimes act as a cohesive oligarchy, particularly when their wealth is threatened from external rather than domestic sources, as has been the case under Western sanctions. Through an in-depth case study on the design and outcome of sanctions, this article seeks to develop a more dynamic theory of Russia's informal politics and explain the apparent cohesion among state and economic elites since 2014 as the result of a politics of wealth defense induced by Western sanctions
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00438200221094588
ER  -