Researchers at the Institute for World Economy IfW Kiel and DIW Berlinhave analysed the economic impact of jointly implementing punitive measures in the context of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. They find that coalitions serve two crucial purposes—they not only magnify the economic cost imposed on the target …

From energy pipelines and pipedreams to election posturing and all the way to media freedom and the fight for justice, we take a look at the struggles, games and gambles which have marked this week’s selection of Premium stories. Pipedreams? The clock seems to be counting down time on Serbia’s …

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, others distort the facts completely. In Serbia, World War II-era Yugoslav Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito …