India, March 31 -- "The Economic Weapon" As Trump emerges on the world scene with no friend nor foe, no NATO, no UN, no bonds, no relationships, no prior agreements, no respected traditions, no accepted codes...no 'ideals' but only 'deals' (as he himself affirms), one longs to study the various dimensions of what may be described today as "Tariff Terror."

In his book "The Economic Weapon" (Yale University Press, 2022), Nicholas Mulder says that using the economy as a weapon in both war and peaceful times has been too little studied. He considers the Athenian ban on goods from Megara in 432 BC as the first case of economic sanctions. Very few remember even that the World War I blockade by the Allies killed 300-400,000 in Central Europe an...