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Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine

by : Nicolas Mulder

In December 2021, President Biden warned President Vladimir Putin of Russia that any incursion into Ukrainian territory would entail “economic consequences like none he has ever seen,” wrote Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history and Milstein Faculty Fellow, in a New York Times guest essay. “America and its European allies followed through on this threat with the largest scale…

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Photo by kremlin.ru/Creative Commons license 3.0 Vladmir Putin and Joe Biden at the 2021 Russia–United States summit

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Keynes warned the world against using economic sanctions

by : Nicolas Mulder , The Guardian

In 1924, British economist John Maynard Keynes argued that aiding our allies is more effective than sanctioning our foes,  and that lesson should be heeded today, writes Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history, in an op-ed in The Guardian. “Advocates of economic pressure argue that sanctions will deter aggressive action and compel better behavior,” Mulder writes in the piece. “But…

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Melissa Askew/Unsplash Wheat, a sanctioned Russian export

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Don’t Expect Sanctions To Win the Ukraine War

by : Nicolas Mulder , Wall Street Journal

In commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Nicolas Mulder, assistant professor of government, sets in historical context the recent western sanctions against Russia, which, he writes, have been “sweeping and unrelenting since the country began waging war against Ukraine two months ago.” “In Warsaw last month, President Joe Biden declared that ‘these economic sanctions are a new kind…