mmodating in peace talks. But the historical record shows that Nixon's coercive gambit had little effect. According to the scholars Scott Sagan and Jeremi Suri, Nixon's nuclear alert strategy "produced the worst of all worlds ... [it was] both ineffective and dangerous." Putin's approach to Ukraine bears

each other. It is linked the systems of trade and economics and biology and data that will create 66 “Who would have thought”: Robert Hutchings and Jeremi Suri, Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) p. 2 67 “During the time”: Thomas Hobbes, Levia