Nicholas Mulder is associate professor of history and Milstein Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He specializes in the history of geoeconomics and is the author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Yale, 2022), which received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association and the Stuart Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and elsewhere.