Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
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The result is something of a muddle, however. Demarais claims in the preface that “this book is not for or against sanctions (xii)” but declares in the conclusion that “the time of peak US sanctions has passed (200).”
Newsletter post sharing his H-Diplo|RJISSF roundtable review of Backfire; he later still calls the book 'a great entryway to thinking about' economic statecraft
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