This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.
Jessica Whyte
Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.
For much of the past century, international lawyers have sought to drive a wedge between “economic” matters and the use of military force. Recent events in the Caribbean and the Strait of Hormuz…
