American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

About the Event

FPRI President Dr. Aaron Stein sits down with author Edward Fishman to discuss his latest book, Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. 

In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the last two decades of US foreign policy. As Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Ayatollah Khamenei wreaked havoc on the world stage, mavericks within the US government built a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons—and successive US presidents have relied on these weapons to address the most pressing national security threats, for good and for ill.

Chokepoints tells this thrilling story through the eyes of the mavericks themselves: the diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who’ve masterminded America’s escalating economic wars against Russia, China, and Iran.

Fishman’s own career has given him a front-row seat to this new Age of Economic Warfare. As a former top State Department sanctions official, he played a central role in designing sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and helped craft the economic pressure strategy that led to the Iran nuclear deal. He now teaches the flagship course on economic statecraft at Columbia University.

Books will be available for purchase at the event.

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