Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

"Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics."-- Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal"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 take on 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 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 wre