Sanctions are judged on the wrong scoreboard
Coercive economic measures rarely change a government's mind. That is not the same as saying they fail.
Global 4 min read Sample
Medium form · 800–1,500 words
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Medium-form pieces that put a single event in its strategic context.
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The resident ambassador was supposed to be obsolete
Leaders can call each other directly. Embassies kept growing anyway — and the reason is not sentiment.
Global 3 min read Sample
Chokepoints are a form of foreign policy
Control of a narrow passage — physical or financial — increasingly does the work that alliances used to do.
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