Published in January 2022, just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the U.S.-led imposition of sweeping economic sanctions, Nicholas Mulder’s The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (Yale University Press, 2022) hit the market and the policy discourse at quite the conducive moment. My own book, Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, September 2022 publication), encompassing sanctions theories, policies and major historical and contemporary cases (including the 2022 Russia-Ukraine sanctions), hopefully will also catch the wave of sanctions interest.