From sanctions to tariffs to seizing oil fields — it feels like we've entered a new age of economic warfare. But experts say we're really just returning to the past. To the time before the rules-based international order was established at the end of the Second World War.Gunboat diplomacy it seems is once again de rigueur.GuestsWilliam Alan Reinsch — Senior advisor, Center for Strategic and International StudiesSaadia Zahidid — Economist and Managing Director of the World Economic ForumMarkus Jaeger — Adjunct professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPAAbraham Newman — Professor of Government, Georgetown University. Author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt/Penguin 2023)Hugo Slim — Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford

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