Saturday, October 25, 2014

Edward Lozansky and Martin Sieff — Sanctions Policy Is a Massive Fail. Hurting Europe, Helping China, and Isolating... the US

Policymakers in Washington and Brussels continue in the delusion that they live in an “End of History” world where their shared liberal and democratic values are bound to win – and quickly – over every alternative economic and political system. 
However, the harsh truth remains that we live in a fragmenting world of 7 billion people where competing and very different centers of civilization and power have already emerged. It is the world predicted 21 years ago by the late American historian and geo-strategist Samuel Huntington. 
In Huntington’s multi-polar world, which, in fact, already exists, the West’s sanctions on Russia will certainly not bring Moscow to heel over Ukraine. They will backfire, creating instead the very nightmare that Washington and Brussels policymakers should avoid at all costs: The creation of a world divided between different trading and strategic blocs.
Economic sanctions are not isolating Russia: They are isolating the United States and straining the bonds of the European Union. Those outcomes are already clear.
Russia Insider | Opinion
Sanctions Policy Is a Massive Fail. Hurting Europe, Helping China, and Isolating... the US
Edward Lozansky, President of the American University in Moscow, and Martin Sieff, national columnist for the Post-Examiner online newspapers and a senior fellow of the American University in Moscow

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