Amid a backdrop of increased economic coercion and trade protectionism, structural shifts in the global economy call into question the viability of sanctions as a tool of statecraft.
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Tom Westland is Research Fellow and Research Director of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Crawford School in ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.
If sanctions and export controls become a banal tool of interstate competition, they will end up damaging the global order they are supposed to protect.
Shiro Armstrong is Director of the Australia–Japan Research Centre and the Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, and is Editor of the East Asia Forum.