GGP: What's Next for U.S. Sanctions & What Does it Mean for Energy?
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This is an episode Center on Global Energy Policy’s Columbia Energy Exchange podcast series.
New sanctions are being proposed against countries including Iran, Russia, Venezuela and North Korea, with potentially significant implications for global energy markets. To discuss what these sanctions entail and their impact on global energy markets, host Jason Bordoff speaks with CGEP Senior Scholar Richard Nephew on Columbia Energy Exchange. Prior to joining CGEP, Richard was Principal Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy at the Department of State and lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. He has served in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the State Department and in the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security at the Department of Energy. He is the author of the forthcoming book in the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy book series, The Art of Sanctions: A View From the Field.
Among many topics Jason and Richard discuss, several include:
- How President Trump could leave the Iran nuclear deal
- Consequences of U.S. sanctions on Iran without international support
- The impact of Russian sanctions on international oil markets
- What sanctions against North Korea would entail
- Whether or not the U.S. will impose sanctions against Venezuela
The statements, opinions and data contained in the content published in Global Gas Perspectives are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s) of Natural Gas World.