Nick moulder is an assistant professor of history at cornell. He says sanctions are a way of fighting a war without fighting ina. They do really involve the actual use of force, or sometimes a threat of force,. But they don't necessarily have the same intensity always as kinetic warfare.
The US hoped sanctions would end Russia’s war in Ukraine quickly. We revisit our conversation with historian Nicholas Mulder who explains the surprising history of economic penalties as a weapon of war.
This episode was produced by Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Noel King.
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