Kreps and co-authors discuss the issues and concerns behind cryptocurrency and the potential for illicit activity online.

“America’s abrupt and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan underscored worries as it raised questions about Washington’s commitment to its allies,”...

"If the 1930s teach us anything, it is that things can fall apart easily," says IES faculty member Cristina Florea in Time magazine.

“Even when trade flows may take place directly between Russia and its trading partners, the reality is that payments often have to go through a...

SEAP director Thomas Pepinsky writes this opinion piece on Russia’s imminent financial crisis and how Russian citizens will react. 

This piece notes that Mostafa Minawi commented on CBS News’ Charlie D’Agata comparing “the value of peoples’ lives and who qualifies as...

“The record of sanctions at deterring war is pretty mixed, and one of the reasons for that is that it’s quite difficult to calibrate, to sort of…...

Eswar Prasad talks about the effects major economic sanctions would have on the dollar-dominated global financial system. 

Nicholas Mulder discusses the difficulties of implementing successful sanctions on a country with a large economy like Russia.  

“We are soon going to be moving to a world where we will have global access to digital versions of the dollar or the Chinese renminbi and many of the...