
The Modern Caste Of Sanctions: How Global Exclusion Is Reshaping Geopolitics And Multilateralism
Published on: Oct. 14, 2025, 6:51 p.m. | Source: Free Press Journal
In every age, humanity has found a way to separate the privileged from the punished. In older civilisations, it was by birth or bloodline. In modern times, it is by access—to capital, to trade, to technology, and to the right to participate in the global order. Today’s world has perfected a new form of that ancient impulse. The sanction has become our contemporary caste mark.