What I’m reading this April
Portuguese empire, debunking the military revolution, the Sahel and Sudan.
Economics
Weltinnenpolitik.
Analysis at the intersection of history and geoeconomics by Nicholas Mulder.
Recent essays
16 of 16The Hormuz blockade as an economic weapon
On the shifting world landscape of material coercion
China’s Great Transformation
Part II: A review of Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian's latest book.
After the End of History interview with Mario Diaz-Perez
On geoeconomics and realism, financial hegemony, Grotius versus Locke, valuation and compensation, intellectual property, alum cartels, and more.
Two Great Transformations
Part I: A review of Branko Milanovic
What I’m reading this January
Russian forests, Uganda, rubber famine, William Buckley, southern German states, revolutionary confiscation
A Tale of Three Islands
An anecdote about expropriation
What I'm reading this November
Books, essays, reviews, etc.
Notes on Economic War and Peace I: Sanctions Relief
How to lift blockades, and why we need Détente Studies
Understanding the Neomercantilist Turn
A new book on the capitalism of finitude
The Paradox of Trump's Economic Weapon Revisited
Why U.S. coercion has been more effective against allies than adversaries
American Expropriation: The TikTok Ban
Is the forced sale of the app about ownership or control?
What Friedrich List Can Teach Us About Export Controls
The balance of U.S. and Chinese Produktivkräfte
The Deep History of the Shadow Fleet
Evading sanctions and shipping crude from Durban to Kozmino
Two Dimensions of Dedollarization
Fast and slow, narrow and broad
Introducing Weltinnenpolitik
Scheduled programming for this Substack in the next few months