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First Recourse for Rebels

Tom Stevenson: Financial Weaponry, 24 March 2022

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War 
by Nicholas Mulder.
Yale, 434 pp., £25, March 2022, 978 0 300 25936 0
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... had shut down the banks and introduced regulations that conformed to American desires. But as Nicholas Mulder shows in The Economic Weapon, a much longer history lies behind the invention of modern sanctions. When war broke out in 1914, the British Empire had been the dominant naval power for almost a century. London’s capital markets financed 60 ...

Cooked Frog

David Edgar: Orbán’s Hungary, 7 March 2024

Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary 
by Zsuzsanna Szelényi.
Hurst, 438 pp., £25, November 2022, 978 1 78738 802 4
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... the deportation and murder of half a million Hungarian Jews.So how, in the words of the historian Nicholas Mulder, did ‘the revolutionaries of 1989 become the nativists of the 2010s and 2020s’? For Szelényi, Orbánism is a utilitarian political project. Its ‘primary aim’ is to support ‘the changing political goals of the Fidesz ...

Warfare State

Thomas Meaney, 5 November 2020

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities 
by John J. Mearsheimer.
Yale, 320 pp., £20, November 2018, 978 0 300 23419 0
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Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition 
by David Hendrickson.
Oxford, 304 pp., £25.49, December 2017, 978 0 19 066038 3
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... on the left, unshackled from Cold War groupthink: Asli Bâli, Aziz Rana, Jeanne Morefield, Nicholas Mulder, Christy Thornton, Daniel Bessner, Stephen Wertheim, Samuel Moyn et al. Their views share a sense of the incapacity of US force to achieve the lofty objectives invested in it, and their prescriptions range from an immediate moratorium on ...

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