{"id":93883,"date":"2025-12-15T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/?p=93883"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:20:31","slug":"chokepoints-american-power-in-the-age-of-economic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/chokepoints-american-power-in-the-age-of-economic-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"blog-post\">\n<h1>How America Weaponized the Global Economy: Inside <em>Chokepoints<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><strong>By Edward Fishman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cDeftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014 Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cA timely, riveting world tour\u2026 an absorbing book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014 The Economist<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cRemarkable\u2026 One of the most important books on economic warfare ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2014 Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, crippling a rival nation meant blockading its ports, invading its territory,<br \/>\nor laying siege to its cities. Today, the battlefield looks very different. A single statement<br \/>\nposted online by the U.S. government can send shockwaves through global markets, collapse<br \/>\ncurrencies, and bring entire industries to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Chokepoints<\/em>, Edward Fishman\u2014a former senior U.S. State Department sanctions official\u2014<br \/>\npulls back the curtain on one of the most consequential shifts in global power over the last<br \/>\ntwo decades: the transformation of the world economy into a weapon of war.<\/p>\n<h2>The Rise of Economic Warfare<\/h2>\n<p>As globalization accelerated in the late 20th century, many believed economic integration<br \/>\nwould reduce conflict. Instead, the opposite happened. Facing the growing assertiveness of<br \/>\nRussia, China, and Iran, the United States began to abandon the old gospel of free-flowing<br \/>\nglobalization and embrace a new strategy\u2014economic warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than relying on military force, U.S. policymakers exploited America\u2019s dominance over:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global finance (Wall Street)<\/li>\n<li>Advanced technology (Silicon Valley)<\/li>\n<li>Energy markets (Big Oil)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sanctions, export controls, financial blacklists, and technology bans became the primary tools<br \/>\nof confrontation. Presidents from both political parties increasingly turned to these measures<br \/>\nto respond to international crises\u2014sometimes with stunning success, and sometimes with<br \/>\ndevastating unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<h2>Inside the Back Rooms of Power<\/h2>\n<p>One of the book\u2019s greatest strengths is its insider perspective. Fishman takes readers deep<br \/>\ninto the back rooms of Washington, revealing how a small and eclectic group of diplomats,<br \/>\nlawyers, economists, and financial experts designed and executed America\u2019s new economic arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>These policy innovators reshaped U.S. foreign policy by identifying critical<br \/>\n<q>chokepoints<\/q> in the global economy\u2014places where American influence was so strong that<br \/>\ncutting access could cripple adversaries without firing a single shot.<\/p>\n<h2>A Fractured Global Economy<\/h2>\n<p>While economic warfare has become the United States\u2019 primary response to global threats,<br \/>\nits long-term consequences are profound. <em>Chokepoints<\/em> shows how these strategies have fueled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A global economic arms race<\/li>\n<li>The fragmentation of supply chains<\/li>\n<li>A growing divide between competing economic blocs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The world we live in today is one where great powers are no longer just trading partners\u2014but<br \/>\neconomic rivals prepared to weaponize interdependence itself.<\/p>\n<h2>Why <em>Chokepoints<\/em> Matters<\/h2>\n<p><em>Chokepoints<\/em> is more than a history of sanctions and policy decisions. It is a definitive<br \/>\naccount of how America pioneered a new, hard-hitting style of economic warfare\u2014and how that<br \/>\nstrategy is reshaping geopolitics, global trade, and the future of international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone seeking to understand today\u2019s fractured world order, this book is essential reading.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><button class=\"post-more\" style=\"border-radius: 7px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=Chokepoints+Edward+Fishman\"> read more<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How America Weaponized the Global Economy: Inside Chokepoints By Edward Fishman AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u201cDeftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics.\u201d \u2014 Daniel Yergin, The Wall Street Journal \u201cA timely, riveting world tour\u2026 an absorbing book.\u201d \u2014 The Economist \u201cRemarkable\u2026 One of the most..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":93601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-relations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93889,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93883\/revisions\/93889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apma-association.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}