Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and NPR - Finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award "Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."
-- Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal "A timely, riveting world tour... An] absorbing book."
-- The Economist "Remarkable...One of the most important books on economic warfare ever written."
-- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis--Russia, China, and Iran. It used to be that ravaging another country's economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top American sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the past two decades of U.S. foreign policy. As Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Ayatollah Khamenei wreaked havoc on the world stage, mavericks within the U.S. government built a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons. Successive U.S. presidents have relied on these weapons to address the most pressing national security threats--for good and for ill. Chokepoints provides a thrilling account of one of the most transformative developments of our time, demystifying how the U.S. government harnesses the power of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Big Oil against America's enemies. At the center of the narrative are the trailblazing diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who have masterminded America's escalating economic wars against Russia, China, and Iran. Control over economic chokepoints--such as the U.S. dollar, advanced microchip technology, and critical minerals--has become the key to geopolitical power in the twenty-first century. The result is a new world order: an economic arms race among great powers and a fracturing global economy. Chokepoints is the definitive account of how America pioneered a new, hard-hitting style of economic warfare--and how it's changing the world.
-- Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal "A timely, riveting world tour... An] absorbing book."
-- The Economist "Remarkable...One of the most important books on economic warfare ever written."
-- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis--Russia, China, and Iran. It used to be that ravaging another country's economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top American sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the past two decades of U.S. foreign policy. As Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Ayatollah Khamenei wreaked havoc on the world stage, mavericks within the U.S. government built a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons. Successive U.S. presidents have relied on these weapons to address the most pressing national security threats--for good and for ill. Chokepoints provides a thrilling account of one of the most transformative developments of our time, demystifying how the U.S. government harnesses the power of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Big Oil against America's enemies. At the center of the narrative are the trailblazing diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who have masterminded America's escalating economic wars against Russia, China, and Iran. Control over economic chokepoints--such as the U.S. dollar, advanced microchip technology, and critical minerals--has become the key to geopolitical power in the twenty-first century. The result is a new world order: an economic arms race among great powers and a fracturing global economy. Chokepoints is the definitive account of how America pioneered a new, hard-hitting style of economic warfare--and how it's changing the world.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0593712978
ISBN13:9780593712979
Release Date:February 2025
Publisher:Portfolio
Length:560 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:2.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Informative
Published by fishman , 8 months ago
Informative and easy to read and understand difficult subjects. Concerend about the liberal viewpoint of the author concerning Trump's actions (failures in the authors opinion) versus Biden and Obama actions (obviously successes).
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