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How America Wasted Its Most Powerful Economic Weapon

If world leaders had been clearer about the sanctions Putin would face, they might have deterred his invasion of Ukraine.

by Edward Fishman via The Atlantic
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on February 24, 2025
The Death and Rebirth of American Internationalism

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

by Edward Fishman via Boston Review on August 11, 2020

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

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Damming the Big Ocean

A new book explains how the US came to rely on economic warfare, but stops short of a complete assessment of its devastating consequences.

by Quinn Slobodian via New York Review of Books on May 21, 2026

Plan A: Economic Warfare

Trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks, but by the 21st century, controlling access to the U.S. dollar seemed to offer even greater leverage.

by Jamie Martin via London Review of Books on April 30, 2026

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