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'BEST BOOK OF 2025' 'Chokepoints is a masterful narrative of US economic warfare in the
21st century.' Financial Times 'A timely riveting world tour ... absorbing' The Economist
' Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of geopolitics'
Wall Street Journal 'A gripping firsthand account. Unparalleled.' Chris Miller author of
Chip War 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. The global economy is now a weapon of war. Chokepoints is a thrilling
behind-the-scenes account of one of the most pivotal geopolitical shifts of our time. Drawing
on extensive research personal experience and interviews with key players Edward Fishman a
former top US State Department official takes us deep into the back rooms of power around the
world. Here we meet an eclectic group of innovators: the diplomats lawyers and financial
whizzes who've masterminded a fearsome new arsenal of economic weapons exploiting Western
dominance in global finance and technology and harnessing the power of Wall Street the City
of London and Silicon Valley to confront a rising authoritarian axis. The sanctions
against Russia might be the biggest coordinated act of economic warfare we've seen but it
won't be the last. Control over modern-day chokepoints - such as the US dollar advanced
microchip technology and critical energy supply chains - has become the key to geopolitical
power in the twenty-first century. The result is an economic arms race among great powers and a
fracturing global economy. Utterly gripping and brimming with rare insight Chokepoints is
indispensable reading to understand the forces that will shape our world for decades to come.
'This is the must-read book of the month for me: Eddie Fishman's Chokepoints . Those who write
about war and geopolitics for a living are generally poor at economic warfare. This book is a
great place to start.' Niall Ferguson author of The Ascent of Money
