Nicholas Mulder is assistant professor of history at Cornell University and the author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (2022). Follow him here.

April 15, 2022

Analysis

Economic War and the Commodity Shock

A discussion on sanctions and global commodity markets

In the early weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conversation between journalist Javier Blas and historian Nicholas Mulder on the collision of their areas of expertise—commodity markets and sanctions—in the fallout of the war. Under discussion, the reconfiguration of…