Nicholas Mulder Journalist Profile

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The Myth of the Hardened Border

1 month ago | foreignaffairs.com | Edward Alden |Laurie Trautman |Paul C. Avey |Nicholas Mulder

When the COVID-19 virus began spreading across the world, five years ago, countries handled the crisis in myriad ways. Some locked down their populations; some encouraged testing, masking, and social distancing; some traced the outbreaks to cut off new infections; and some did almost nothing at all. But amid this variety of domestic public health measures, nearly every country pursued one common policy: closing their borders. Conservatives and liberals alike embraced border closures.
The Paradox of Trump’s Economic Weapon

1 month ago | foreignaffairs.com | Nicholas Mulder |Michael Albertus |Matthew J. Slaughter |David Wessel

Since returning to the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed a whirlwind of policy shifts, territorial claims, and economic threats. In his first few weeks in office, Trump has expressed a desire to bring Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, and the Gaza Strip under direct American control. He has also expanded his trade offensive against China to include Canada and Mexico, the United States’ two largest trading partners.
Disputing Disaster — the Great War and its lessons for today’s global order

Nov 4, 2024 | ft.com | Nicholas Mulder

The US diplomat George Kennan once termed the first world war “the seminal disaster of the 20th century”.
Nicholas Mulder: "Facing America's Social Crisis"

Oct 22, 2024 | yalereview.org | Nicholas Mulder

Nicholas Mulder To read more fromThe Yale Review's folio The Future of Nationalism,click here. For nearly a hundred years, patrons on their way to dine at the Tavern on the Green in Central Park have passed under the noble gaze of a bust of Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the founding fathers of the Italian nation.
Econ Additions to Your Summer Reading List

May 7, 2024 | econiful.org | Ed Conway |Virginia Postrel |Rachel Slade |Nicholas Mulder

Home news econ additions your summer reading list If you are an econ enthusiast, these titles are for you!MATERIAL WORLD: THE SIX RAW MATERIALS THAT MADE THE WORLDby Ed Conway"Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years.
Nicholas Mulder. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.

Mar 13, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Nicholas Mulder

Nicholas Mulder’s The Economic Weapon appeared with a punctuality that could never have been planned: the moment the world saw the rollout—in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine—of the most comprehensive sanctions against a regime since the world wars. Mulder offers us the prehistory of this moment.
El arma de las sanciones: además de ser más fáciles de evadir, las sanciones económicas ahora desencadenan shocks mundiales más grandes que nunca

Feb 13, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Nicholas Mulder

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The west would harm itself with rash seizures of frozen Russian assets

Jan 4, 2024 | ft.com | Nicholas Mulder

The writer is assistant professor of history at Cornell University and author of ‘The Economic Weapon: the rise of sanctions as a tool of...
The Neoliberal Transition in Intellectual and Economic History

Jul 3, 2023 | muse.jhu.edu | Nicholas Mulder

This review essay examines three recent books about the advent of neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that after three decades of scholarship that have mapped neoliberalism as a set of policies and an epoch, we are now witnessing a new turn in the literature focused on understanding why neoliberalism came to dominate the global political and economic order in the first place. This more ambitious agenda opens up complex questions of agency, intentionality, and causality.
Asian economic heft keeps Russia’s economy afloat

Jun 18, 2023 | johnmenadue.com | Nicholas Mulder

Thirty-seven countries have imposed economic sanctions on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The breadth of this campaign has few precedents in recent history. The sanctions covering finance, energy, technology, travel, shipping, avionics and commodities are aimed at one of the 10 largest world economies.