1. Sanctions are supposed to sap the power of the elite. But what if they are shown to have the opposite effect?

In this new piece, Zep Kalb and I look at the 'distributional effects' of sanctions, using 20 years household expenditure of data from Iran.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/iran-…

The decline of the project state and its supporting project coalitions cc: Anton Jäger americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/08/the-ri…

I reviewed Charles Maier’s 'The Project State and its Rivals', which offers a majestic and newly unitary history of the twentieth century - and reflected on some unanswered questions

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My book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, now has a cover and webpage! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… #twitterstorians

When it comes to books about sanctions, we are living in a Golden Age.

I've posted a draft of 'Rival Lawmakers' on @ssrn. This paper tells the thirty-year story of the Chinese boycotts and their impact on the then-developing international law of economic sanctions. I'm gonna do the 🧵thing. 1/x papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The West’s failure to quickly bring the Russian economy to its knees for its invasion of Ukraine mirrors a larger stalemate on the battlefield on.wsj.com/3OClMcL

Rounding out the summer issue of the journal is a review essay by Nicholas Mulder: 'The Neoliberal Transition in Intellectual and Economic History'

Read today, or download for later: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

Last year Spain had a higher inflation rate than the European average. Now it is the first country to undershoot the inflation target thanks to mobilizing an arsenal of tools from strategic price caps, windfall profit taxes to free public transport.

Good luck with the election!

'This more ambitious agenda opens up complex questions of agency, intentionality, and causality. The 'neoliberal transition debate' therefore concerns the dominant philosophy of history among intellectual and economic historians.' Nicholas Mulder

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

New issue of Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 84, No. 3 (2023) muse.jhu.edu/issue/51231 Project MUSE Penn Press J. History of Ideas

【 #まいにちはじめに 】
ロシアによる突然の、いわれのない大規模なウクライナ侵略は、侵略に対する武器としての制裁の本来の目的を今日的なものにした。

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The Japanese edition of Nicholas Mulder’s The Economic Weapon is now out

NEW MASTHEAD | Springer Studies in Law & Geoeconomics is pleased to unveil the masthead of the new peer-reviewed journal 'Law & Geoeconomics' featuring Sophie Meunier Helen Milner Nicholas Mulder Nikhil Kalyanpur Amrita Narlikar Abraham Newman Anthea Roberts Dr Maria Shagina 🇺🇦 Joel Trachtman Victor Ferguson Fabien Gehl

Congratulations to Nicholas Mulder Nicholas Mulder, his The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War won SHAFR’s Bernath Book Prize this year! The prize committee called it “incisive, revelatory . . . profound & ambitious.” CornellHistory CornellArts&Sciences Yale Univ Press

For East Asia Forum I wrote about one of the most drastic trade realignments in recent history. Western 'Rise of Asia' discourse hasn't fully grasped its own geopolitical implications, as rapid RU trade diversion away from 38-strong sanctionist bloc shows
eastasiaforum.org/2023/06/11/asi…

Since 2010 an esp. 2018 New Left Review has published a remarkable running debate on ecological and climate politics, which Lola Seaton & I have now edited into a single volume (out June 27th) called WHO WILL BUILD THE ARK? Please consider ordering a copy: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721295/w…

This is not the 1970s.