America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs – with Abraham Newman

Donald Trump complains that they are undermining the supremacy of the dollar.

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Henry Farrell (and Abraham Newman), “America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs,” Financial Times, September 19, 2024.

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The Modern History of Economic Sanctions

Nicholas Mulder’s new book, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War,” remakes debates over European history between the two world wars. It rescues the League of Nations from the enormous condescension of posterity, arguing that the league was neither ridiculous nor doomed. However, it also demonstrates that the league’s ...
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Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion – with Abraham Newman

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (2019), “Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion,” International Security 44, 1:42-79. Reprinted in Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence, Brookings Institution 2021. Liberals claim that globalization has led to fragmentation and decentralized networks of power relations. This does not ...
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