How to Get Off the Sanctions List
Erich Ferrari on the inner workings of OFAC. There is a powerful office in the Treasury Department called the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. You could argue that the officials in OFAC are...
1 Sep 202547min
Reporting from Sanctioned Countries
Golnar Motevalli on her experiences reporting from sanctioned Iran. Covering sanctions is complicated. Editors commissioning reports from countries like Iran, Russia, and Venezuela mainly want storie...
26 Aug 202554min
How Sanctions are Spurring Chinese Innovation
Kyle Chan on Chinese innovation in the face of sanctions and export controls. Over the past several years, the United States has escalated its use of sanctions and export controls in the context of g...
18 Aug 202543min
How Sanctions Kill
Francisco Rodríguez on the global death toll of sanctions. In the 1990s, UN sanctions imposed on Iraq led to a humanitarian crisis, with reports of a rapid increase in excess mortality, especially am...
11 Aug 202551min
Trump's Approach to Economic Statecraft
Edward Fishman on Trump's approach to economic statecraft. The world is still reeling from Trump’s announcement of major retaliatory tariffs targeting all of America’s trading partners, which came ba...
4 Aug 202551min
The Humanitarian Consequences of Sanctions
Erica Moret on the humanitarian harms of sanctions. In just about every country that has been targeted by a major sanctions program—including Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela, to name a few—we c...
17 Jun 202448min
How American Regulators Captured Global Banks
Stephen Fallon on how American regulators captured global banks. US authorities have taken advantage of the unique position of the dollar in the global economy to exercise significant control over t...
10 Jun 202447min
Intensifying Economic Competition Between the U.S. and China
Gerard DiPippo on the intensifying economic competition between the United States and China. When the White House recently announced it would increase tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, it used st...
3 Jun 202447min
