Chokepoints

American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

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<b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br> <br>"Deftly written, <i>Chokepoints</i> is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."<br>— Daniel Yergin, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br> <br>"A timely, riveting world tour...[An] absorbing book."<br><i>— The Economist</i><br> <br>“Remarkable...One of the most important books on economic warfare ever written.”<br> — Paul Kennedy, author of <i>The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers</i><br> <br>The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to take on a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Chokepoints</i>, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the last two decades of U.S. foreign policy, in which America renounced the gospel of globalization and waged a new kind of economic war. 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, exploiting America’s dominance in global finance and technology. Successive U.S. presidents have relied on these unconventional weapons to address the most pressing national-security threats, for good and for ill.<br><br><i>Chokepoints</i> provides a thrilling account of one of the most critical geopolitical developments of our time, demystifying the complex strategies the U.S. government uses to harness the power of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Big Oil against America’s enemies. At the center of the narrative is an eclectic group of policy innovators: the diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who’ve masterminded America’s escalating economic wars against Rus

Artikeldetails

EAN

9798217183531

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

201 x 129 x 34 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US