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2025
Foreign Policy
Did Trump Just Lift Sanctions on Iranian Oil? (June 2025)
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Carnegie Europe
How the EU Can Think Creatively for Sanctions on Russia (June 2025)
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Foreign Policy
Trump is Hitting Green Energy Hard (June 2025)
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Politico
Europe should shrug off Trump’s tariff threats (May 2025)
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Foreign Policy
The U.S. Economy Is Now Trump Enterprises (May 2025)
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Foreign Policy
Why a Pact to Weaken the Dollar Makes No Sense (May 2025)
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Le Monde
L’Union européenne dispose de leviers uniques vis-à-vis de la Russie dans le domaine financier (April 2025)
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Foreign Policy
Trump Can’t Force a Global Decoupling from China (April 2025)
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ECFR
No brain, no brawn: Trump 2.0 makes an EU Economic Security Network essential (March 2025, co-authored with Abraham Newman)
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Foreign Policy
What Europe Can Do if Trump Drops Russia Sanctions (March 2025)
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Politico
Why Putin is finally negotiating (February 2025)
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Foreign Policy
Note to Europe: Stay calm and don’t retaliate against US tariffs (February 2025)
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CERI / Sciences Po
Regards sur l’Eurasie. L’année politique 2024/Les Etudes du CERI (February 2025)
Le contournement des sanctions par la Russie: mythes et réalités
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Foreign Policy
Three Years On, What’s Next for Europe and Ukraine? (February 2025)
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World Economic Forum
Open but secure: Europe’s path to strategic interdependence
Europe in the global economy: driving growth through innovation and and trade partnerships (January 2025)
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Foreign Policy
Why are Western companies still financing Putin’s war? (January 2025)
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ECFR
Learning from shipwrecked sailors: Three ways Europeans can weather the Trump storm (January 2025)
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Foreign Policy
From Musk to Gaza: Issues We’re Watching in 2025 (January 2025)
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2024
Foreign Policy
Will Europe fragment under Trump 2.0? (December 2024)
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ECFR
The purpose of sanctions: Why Europe and America should begin lifting measures on Syria (December 2024)
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Foreign Affairs
Europe must unlock its geoeconomic power (November 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Russia’s Plans to Replace the Dollar Are Going Nowhere (November 2024)
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ECFR
Divided we stand: The EU votes on Chinese EV tariffs (October 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Russia Can’t Keep Spending Like This for Long (October 2024)
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ECFR
Hard, fast, and where it hurts: Lessons from Ukraine-related sanctions for a Taiwan conflict scenario (September 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Why Europe Is Losing the Tech Race (September 2024)
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Foreign Policy
China Should Worry About Europe if It Attacks Taiwan (September 2024)
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Foreign Policy
The Winners from U.S.-China Decoupling (July 2024)
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Politico
Export controls on Russia might be working better than you think (June 2024)
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ECFR
It just makes cents: Why the EU needs to step up its geoeconomics game (June 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Biden’s New Tariffs Should Raise Alarm Bells in Beijing (May 2024)
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ECFR
The EU’s sanctions odyssey: Understanding the proposed restrictions on Russian LNG and helium (May 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Gazprom’s Declining Fortunes Spell Trouble for Moscow (May 2024)
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Financial Times
The China-Russia trade friendship may not be quite what you think (April 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Forget About Chips—China Is Coming for Ships (April 2024)
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Heinrich Boll Stiftung
Why US export controls on clean tech would backfire (March 2024)
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ECFR
Forget about Trump: Why Europeans should start worrying about trade tensions with emerging economies (March 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Claims That Sanctions Hurt Europe More Than Russia Are Wrong (March 2024)
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Foreign Policy
Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine? (February 2024)
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CERI / Sciences Po
Regards sur l’Eurasie. L’année politique 2023/Les Etudes du CERI (February 2024)
L’économie russe : impact des sanctions et perspectives de long terme
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Foreign Policy
Why China Is Rooting for Trump (February 2024)
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Foreign Policy
The West did not invent decoupling—China did (February 2024)
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ECFR
The bigger picture: The case for an EU-Mercosur free trade deal (January 2024)
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Foreign Policy
5 issues to watch in 2024 (January 2024)
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2023
Foreign Policy
The Unintended Consequences of Seizing Russian Assets (November 2023)
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Le Grand Continent
Une puissance stochastique : l’empire souterrain des États-Unis, une conversation avec Henry Farrell et Abraham Newman (November 2023)
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Foreign Policy
Don’t Expect Much From Biden and Xi (November 2023)
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ECFR
What the EU list of critical technologies tells us about its de-risking plans (October 2023)
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Foreign Policy
The Easiest Way to Make Russia Sanctions More Effective (October 2023)
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ECFR
Economics front and centre: Why the US-EU summit matters (October 2023)
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Foreign Policy
How Russia Evaded the Oil Price Cap (October 2023)
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Foreign Policy
Why Europe Will Struggle to ‘De-Risk’ From China (September 2023)
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Foreign Policy
What Does ‘De-Risking’ Actually Mean? (August 2023)
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La Grande Conversation
A quoi servent les sanctions contre la Russie ? (July 2023)
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Foreign Policy
China’s Threat to Ban Critical Minerals Exports Is a Bluff (July 2023)
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
How Climate Change Will Reshape Economic Statecraft (June 2023)
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Foreign Policy
Aid Is the Next Battleground Between China and the West (June 2023)
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Le Grand Continent
Les nouvelles armes de la Russie / Las nuevas armas de Rusia (May 2023)
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Foreign Policy
No, Russia Is Not Massively Skirting Sanctions (May 2023)
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Foreign Affairs
Why China Hasn’t Come to Russia’s Rescue (April 2023)
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Foreign Policy
Don’t Trust Russia’s Numbers (March 2023)
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World Politics Review
Sanctions on Russia Are a Long Game, Not a Quick Fix (February 2023)
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Foreign Policy
Russia Sanctions: 10 Lessons and Questions for What Comes Next (February 2023)
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Le Grand Continent
10 points sur les sanctions / 10 puntos sobre las sanciones (January 2023)
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2022
Foreign Affairs
The End of the Age of Sanctions? (December 2022)
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Foreign Policy
Sanctions on Russia Are Working. Here’s Why (December 2022)
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Politico
Russia will lose the energy war Putin started (November 2022)
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The Journal of Democracy
Why Sanctions Don’t Work Against Dictatorships (November 2022)
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H-Diplo
Commentary Series on Putin’s War – Demarais, “Sanctions are Not Keeping Putin Awake at Night. Export Controls Are.” (October 2022)
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2021 and earlier
The Times
We’re overlooking threat of countries linking to avoid sanctions (June 2021)
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Politico
Why Erdoğan’s attacks on France will backfire (October 2020)
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City-AM
Covid-19 creates a perfect storm for debt crises (March 2020)
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