Kimberley Donovan joins Kinga Redlowska to discuss the evolving role of economic security and economic statecraft in global affairs.

Kimberley Donovan, Director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, talks to host Kinga Redlowska about the important differences between economic security and economic statecraft, the value of ‘positive economic statecraft’ and Global South engagement, the ‘axis of evasion’, and much more besides.

The effective use of sanctions needs clear objectives and outcomes, multilateral coordination, and rigorous enforcement; their overuse can have unintended consequences.

Former US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo talks to host Tom Keatinge about the 2021 US Treasury Sanctions Review, the use of sanctions following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the challenges posed by cryptocurrencies in designing sanctions in response to Hamas's murderous attack on Israel. He stresses that sanctions must be tied to measurable goals, integrated into broader foreign policy, and enforced via multilateral cooperation to remain credible. But he also warns that overuse risks undermining US influence by pushing adversaries toward alternative financial systems and causing unintended humanitarian harm.

A personal story exploring the challenges of introducing financial integrity and transparency to Myanmar's financial system - and of 650 days of imprisonment as a result.

We talk a lot about the realities of fighting financial crime and the harms that these crimes cause. But what happens when the victims are the financial crime fighter or the financial reformer themselves...?

In this first episode of Season 8, CFS Director Tom Keatinge speaks with Sean Turnell, an Australian economist and central banker, about his attempts to reform Myanmar's dysfunctional banking system after Aung San Suu Kyi's election victory in 2015, the opposition he faced from the cronies and military leaders who benefited from the status quo, and his subsequent imprisonment following the 2021 coup.