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How Western sanctions over Ukraine invasion could hit Russia’s energy sector

March 1, 2022 ARTICLES, Energy Market, Featured, important 0

Analysis: Tightening sanctions could lead to a decline in Moscow’s share of Europe’s energy market. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has posed several challenges for Western companies, with a growing list looking to exit Russia as international sanctions tighten. While Russian energy firms have not been sanctioned, a growing number of Western oil …

The Future of the U.S. Maximum Pressure Campaign on Iran under Biden

November 27, 2020 ARTICLES 0

Aiming to force the Iranian regime to negotiate its regional policies, the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May 2018 and imposed tough sanctions on the country. This “maximum pressure campaign” has certainly put significant economic pressure on Iran — especially now as it is …

Umud Shokri is a Washington-based senior foreign policy and energy geopolitics advisor and author of US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Changing Trends Since 2001.
He has served as a visiting research scholar at the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP),
an initiative of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and is
an advisor at Gulf State Analytics (GSA), a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy.
Umud holds a Ph.D. in International Relations. He comes with extensive expertise and
professional experience in global energy market studies, energy security, the geopolitics of
climate change, industrial policy for clean energy, as well as foreign policy in the context of
climate change and energy transition. His primary research interests lie in energy diplomacy and
energy transition, U.S. energy policy, the geopolitics of energy, Iran-Turkey relations, as well as Iran-Russia relations, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia and the GCC.