Pssst…. want to read something on economic sanctions?

Two months after Foreign Policy revamped its website, Foreign Affairs has done something similar.  No blogs, but a jazzy new website.    One big change is that it’s now at foreignaffairs.com.  Until recently, their website was only located at foreignaffairs.org.  If you went to foreignaffairs.com, you arrived at a website that… well, how to put this…. ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

Two months after Foreign Policy revamped its website, Foreign Affairs has done something similar.  No blogs, but a jazzy new website.   

Two months after Foreign Policy revamped its website, Foreign Affairs has done something similar.  No blogs, but a jazzy new website.   

One big change is that it’s now at foreignaffairs.com.  Until recently, their website was only located at foreignaffairs.org.  If you went to foreignaffairs.com, you arrived at a website that… well, how to put this…. interpreted the words "foreign affairs" to mean something involving attractive, heavly made-up Asian women.  [Really, he only went to the site once, though!!–ed.]

Anyway, my little contribution to the new website is a reading list — Five Things to Read About Economic Sanctions.  Go check it out.

Sanctions experts are encourgaged to post, in the comments, what they would have put on that list (I was limited to five books or essays). 

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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