Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is the Founder of Bourse & Bazaar, a think tank focused on issues of economic diplomacy and development in the Middle East and Central Asia, and particularly Iran.

February 18, 2023

Reviews

The Sanctions Age

On Agathe Demarais’s “Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against US Interests”

Charles De Gaulle declared in 1961, “A great state which does not possess [nuclear weapons]… does not command its own destiny.” France became the world’s fourth nuclear power in 1960 following the Gerboise Bleue nuclear test. Yet the command of…