The number of wars since 19 28 has almost halved. What happened? The moralization bias was in full flowering, but there was also lack of enforcement. Outcasters refuse to do something with the rule breakers. This principle of exclusion doesn't always work, cuba and north karea come to mind. But sometimes it does, turkey and aran perhaps. And it is almost always better than war.
An analysis of Russia's war on Ukraine. Will sanctions work?
This episode is a reading from Michael Shermer’s post on Substack entitled: “Putin’s Problem: The outlawry of war has forced tyrants to concoct excuses for invading other countries. How should we respond? Evidence shows that outcasting in the form of economic sanctions beats armed conflict”
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