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Why US economic sanctions often fail

Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast

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Introduction

Agatha Demare is the Global Forecasting Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit. She has written a new book, Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against US Interest. What makes the US and the dollar uniquely suited to this approach to diplomacy? Well, US dollar hegemony, I think, is the short answer.

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