A great new article on Stalinist repression, 1937-45, showing how Soviet women formed a significant and systematically targeted group, and more so than previously understood.

By contrast, Winston Churchill discussing evacuating 338,000 soldiers, instead refocused on the strategic:

"We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

It's Easter. So it's our annual Christian values mass war crimes event.

I agree that's what I should have said. It would have been more consistent with what I said later . . . Too late 🙄

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My mouth may have run away with me. Tell me more?

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My new book with Stephen Broadberry on economic warfare and sanctions in history is available here www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... @warwickecon.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social

Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

A grim subject for most, but a pleasure for me to chat with the excellent @soumayakeynes.ft.com on the Economics Show of @financialtimes.com about three centuries of economic warfare and sanctions www.ft.com/content/2404...

Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

Does economic warfare work?

Sometimes... but it can also go very badly wrong. In this week's podcast I spoke to the brilliant @mark4harrison.bsky.social about what lessons we can learn from history

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Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison What four centuries of conflict can tell us about today

"The people who go into war often underestimate the range of options open to the adversary."

Listen to the amazing @mark4harrison.bsky.social provide historical examples of the range of ECONOMIC OPTIONS open to the adversary.

Russia’s Way of Building Mega Projects -- my review of Paul Josephson's *Hero Projects* is on open access at the Business History Review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social @cepr.org

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

Might start doing this more often. Roundup of some key visual gags of the week.

Economic warfare, even of the most “kinetic” blowing up bits of your opponent’s economy sort, works slowly.
It adds cumulative costs to the enemy’s ability to fight. It is not about knock-out blows.
Seizing or destroying the facilities at Kharg does not instantly end Iran’s ability to fight.

A nice piece on Olson’s contribution, by @mark4harrison.bsky.social

“We are now in a world where policymakers need to take this seriously.”
@duncanweldon.bsky.social commends the importance and accessibility of 'Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688' by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry at the book's launch event last week.
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Alas no. FWIW, here is a PDF of our presentation drive.google.com/file/d/1n40S...

Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Full details of our book here www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... /x

Thanks to many including @cagewarwick.bsky.social for supporting the event as well as the work behind it, @duncanweldon.bsky.social for thoughtful reflections and kind words, Michael Watson of @universitypress.cambridge.org for bringing copies, and all who showed up on a chilly February evening /3

As Steve remarked, thirty years ago when he and I began to collaborate on the historical economics of great-power wars, we thought it was just history, devoid of policy relevance. How times have changed /2

Steve Broadberry (left) and Mark Harrison (right), standing by an image of our book, Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688

Steve Broadberry and I had a great time introducing our new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 to friends and colleagues in London last night /1

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Excellent launch this evening for outstanding book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Broadberry S., with special added value from @duncanweldon.bsky.social

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It was a pleasure to meet! Thanks for coming 🙂

Book Launch: Economic Warfare and Sanctions since 1688 How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? A new book Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688 edited by leading economic historians Stephen Broadberry (University of…

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history?
📅 On Thurs 19th Feb leading economic historians Stephen Broadberry and @mark4harrison.bsky.social
will be launching their new book covering three centuries of global history at the British Academy.
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To get access, by the way, you have to confirm that you are 18 or older, because much of the state control of media in Russia today is framed in terms of the need to protect young people against dangerous influences 😎

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A few days ago the newly published Russian translation of my book Secret Leviathan was listed as one of Gorky.media's books of the week gorky.media/reviews/vozm... /1

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise.
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