David Singh Grewal, UC Berkeley
We are once again in the awful position of testing the proposition that commercial integration among nations leads to peace. And, to the extent that it clearly does not, we are left wondering about how effective either monetary and economic sanctions can be—and, more broadly, what economic “decoupling” looks like in a post-neoliberal world.
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Sanctions and Decoupling After Neoliberalism”
Category: RT10 – Money Sanctions Int Law
Fall 2022 - Money, Sanctions and International Law
Fall 2022 - Money, Sanctions and International Law
International Law and 21st Century Financial Warfare
Suzanne Katzenstein, Duke University; Stephen Park, University of Connecticut
Financial sanctions of the current scope and magnitude can no longer be relied upon to enforce international law in a manner that complies with it. Relying on international law to constrain the impacts of warfare—here, financial warfare—may also risk legitimizing its expanding use.
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International Law and 21st Century Financial Warfare”
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Are the West’s Sanctions on Russia Working?
Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux, Harvard University
The question of whether sanctions on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine are “working” is vastly more complicated than has been acknowledged.
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Are the West’s Sanctions on Russia Working?”
Fall 2022 - Money, Sanctions and International Law
Sanctions and International Order
Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University
Even if imposed in the name of international order, sanctions enforced by a powerful group of states are hard to differentiate from economic warfare. Their success will therefore depend as much on brute strength as on global legitimacy.
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Sanctions and International Order”
Fall 2022
Money, Sanctions and International Law
Contributors: Rawi Abdelal/Alexandra Vacroux, Charlotte Beaucillon, Ben Coates, Anna Gelpern, David Singh Grewal, Daniel Nielson, Stephen Park/Suzanne Katzenstein, Adam Tooze.
This roundtable deals with questions about the system of international monetary production, international law, and politics that have come into sharp relief in the context of economic
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Money, Sanctions and International Law”