Donald Trump complains that they are undermining the supremacy of the dollar.
Henry Farrell (and Abraham Newman), “America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs,” Financial Times, September 19, 2024.
America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs – with Abraham Newman
Other Writing:
Chapter in an Edited Volume
“Weaponized Interdependence and Networked Coercion: A Research Agenda,” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence – with Abraham Newman – eds. Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
When we initially wrote our article on weaponized interdependence, we hoped that it would help people think more clearly about how economic coercion was changing. We did not anticipate either the reception that the argument has gotten or how dramatically the changes that we wanted to understand would accelerate, thanks to factors including the deterioration ...
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Essay
What If These Economic Weapons Fall into Trump’s Hands? – with Abraham Newman
The Biden administration has built an unprecedented machine for economic and technological coercion. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its allies cut off Russia’s access to its own central bank reserves held outside Russia. The administration revamped export controls to strangle China’s access to the powerful and specialized semiconductors needed to train A.I., ...
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