Mariya Grinberg

Mariya Grinberg is a political scientist whose research explains why enemies may continue trading during war and when economic warfare is likely to be used. This is a context profile of scholarship, not a claim that she exercises state authority or that her institutional affiliation represents an official position.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty directory, checked on 29 July 2026, lists Grinberg as associate professor of political science. The page also describes research on wartime trade, international security, sovereignty and the political economy of security. Her title and affiliation require a publication-day check because they are living-person and current-role facts.

Grinberg's 2019 dissertation, Planning for the Short Haul, and her later article Wartime Commercial Policy and Trade between Enemies challenge the assumption that belligerents automatically terminate commerce. The argument focuses on expected war duration and the time required for a traded good to improve an enemy's military capacity. This creates variation across products and across a conflict. Continued trade is therefore not evidence that states have stopped fighting or that commerce is strategically irrelevant.

Her 2025 book Trade in War: Economic Cooperation across Enemy Lines develops the argument through comparative historical analysis. The book belongs in the encyclopedia's interpretive apparatus because it complicates a simple division between peace-time exchange and wartime denial. Its findings should be summarised as the author's analysis, not converted into a universal law.

Mariya Grinberg alone authored The Future of Economic Warfare, published in Survival, volume 67, number 3, in 2025. The article distinguishes economic warfare from other economic-statecraft tools and argues that its use depends on conditions including expectations of a long war and willingness to accept escalation pressure. The citation and authorship are fixed.

The profile remains in context because scholarship supplies concepts and evidence rather than a coercive act. Claims that Grinberg founded a field, produced the first account or directly changed policy require evidence not contained in the source packet.

See also

Trade sanctions · Economic warfare · Weaponised interdependence · Norman Angell · Michael Mastanduno

Sources

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mariya Grinberg, checked 29 July 2026.
2. Cornell University Press, *Trade in War: Economic Cooperation across Enemy Lines* (2025).
3. Mariya Grinberg, Wartime commercial policy and trade between enemies, International Security 46, no. 1 (2021), pp. 9-52.
4. Mariya Grinberg, The Future of Economic Warfare, Survival 67, no. 3 (2025), pp. 149-170.
5. University of Chicago, Mariya Grinberg doctoral dissertation record, 2019.
6. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Mariya Grinberg author profile.