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Weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponized

Russian sanctions highlight how network analysis is urgently needed to find and protect vulnerable parts of the global economy.
  1. Henry Farrell

    1. Henry Farrell is a professor in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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  2. Abraham L. Newman

    1. Abraham L. Newman is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

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When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, nobody expected that the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and other nations would isolate Russia from the global economy in retaliation. Instead of limited and largely symbolic sanctions, which were all Russia faced when it annexed Crimea and occupied eastern parts of Ukraine in 2014, this latest response has had devastating ripple effects.

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Nature 605, 219-222 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01254-5

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