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Jeffry Frieden: The Cost of Geoeconomic Coercion
19 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2026 at 4:22 pm.
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As geopolitical tensions rise, countries like to flex their economic muscle. But as appealing as they might be, sanctions, tariffs, and export bans come at a price. Jeffry Frieden is a professor of international and public affairs and political science at Columbia University. In this podcast, he says when economic and geopolitical relations become tightly connected, bad things can happen.

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Read the article in Finance & Development: IMF.org/FANDD