Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today
Weaponised trade and a return to gunboat diplomacy
Freitag, 23. Januar 2026 · 30 min
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Shownotes
From sanctions to tariffs to seizing oil fields — it feels like we've entered a new age of economic warfare. But experts say we're really just returning to the past. To the time before the rules-based international order was established at the end of the Second World War.
Gunboat diplomacy it seems is once again de rigueur.
Guests
William Alan Reinsch (csis.org/analysis/weaponizing-trade-0) — Senior advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Saadia Zahidid (weforum.org/stories/authors/saadia-zahidi)— Economist and Managing Director of the World Economic Forum
Markus Jaeger (sipa.columbia.edu/sipa-education/capstone-work…)— Adjunct professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA
Abraham Newman (gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000…) — Professor of Government, Georgetown University. Author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt/Penguin 2023)
Hugo Slim (elac.ox.ac.uk/people/hugo-slim)— Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford