Commentary and Analysis

Bobby Ghosh, Susan Glasser, and James Harding join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

New York Times reporter Matina Stevis-Gridneff and sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder join Deep Dish to discuss how the sanctions crippling Russia affect the global economy.

A US and European ban on Russian oil is inevitable, Council President Ivo Daalder tells NewsNation. He unpacks what this means with Bobby Oler and Leland Vittert.

Is the global economic response to Putin’s aggression enough? Council President Ivo Daalder discusses with Sasha-Ann Simons on WBEZ’s Reset.

Ivo Daalder joins Ian Kelly on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to discuss the impact of sanctions on the Russian Central Bank as violence intensifies in Ukraine.

Putin is ready to weather the storm. But will the rest of Russia, the Russian elite in particular, be ready with him? Elizabeth Shackelford explores the answer.

Economic sanctions: what they are, how the US has used them in foreign policy, and considerations for current policymakers.

“Repaired and updated infrastructure-based amenities should train their focus on distressed communities first,” write John Austin and Alex Hitch in Governing.

“By centering our economic and trade relations with our friends, we can drive a more powerful collective recovery,” writes John Austin in Our Towns.

Data show that quality of life, not business, is the driving factor for rebuilding the Midwest's economy. John Austin and coauthors explain in Brookings.