What secrets about sanctions evasion are hidden in trade data? Who fears secondary sanctions - and who shrugs them off? And why has Russia’s pivot toward the Chinese renminbi accelerated so dramatically under Western restrictions? This talk explores these questions in the context of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

*Sudarshana Banerjee* (University of St Andrews)
*Incorporation and Marginalization: Medical Knowledge-Making, Power, and the Politics of Knowledge Circulation during the Company Era*

*Daika Kaba* (Hitotsubashi University)
*Between Local Race and Global FascismL the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and Interracial movements in Harlem, New York*

*Camille Neufville* (University of Strasbourg)
*The Transnational Origins of Soviet Tea: Foreign Expertise and Foreign Presence on the South Caucasian Tea Plantations Before and After the Establishment of Soviet Power (1915-1935)*

*Cherry Briggs* (Independent Researcher)
*The Multiple Geographies of Sri Lanka’s Climate, 1805-1953*

Is nuclear conflict manageable, or does any use of nuclear weapons inexorably push states toward escalation? And how do these dynamics differ between nuclear- and conventional-armed attacks? Many theorists have considered these questions, but empirically answering them is difficult given the absence of historical data. We address this challenge by fielding a pre-registered experimental survey of American adults designed around a series of hypothetical vignettes featuring attacks on the United States.