"We’ve Been Talking About Carrots For Too Long. Carrots Don't Work."

"I’m afraid that we’ve reached the stage when the only way to move something is through punishment – i.e., targeted sanctions," stated David J. Kramer in a Nov. 24 interview with The Ukrainian Week. The Ukrainian government continues to ignore warnings from the West regarding human rights violations and corruption; Kramer argues that incentives have not encouraged the government to change the way it behaves, consequently, "applying sanctions is the only alternative.”

Read the interview.
Read the 2012 report, Sounding the Alarm Round 2: Protecting Democracy in Ukraine.