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100	1		_aSIEGEL David
245			_aFrom Oligarchs to Oligarchy: _bthe failure of U.S. sanctions on Russia and its implications for theories of informal politics/ _cDavid Siegel
260			_c2022
520			_aDrawing 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.
650			_aINFORMAL POLITICS _xOLIGARCHY _xRUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY _xU.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS _xSANCTIONS _zUNITED STATES _xPOLICY THEORY
773			_aWorld Affairs : _gVol 185 No 2, Summer 2022, pp.249-284 (55)
598			_aRUSSIA, POLICY, POLITICS, USA
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00438200221094588 _zClick here for more
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