Lawfare Daily: "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare," with Edward Fishman

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

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For today's episode, Lawfare general counsel and senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Edward Fishman, a senior research scholar at the Center for Global Energy Policy within Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, to discuss his new book: "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare."They discussed Fishman's own career at the cutting edge of economic statecraft, the evolving toolkit it has come to present U.S. policymakers, the role he thinks it will play in our new era of major power competition, and what it may all mean for the future of the global order.

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1:50.4	Scott R. Anderson with Eddie Fishman, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy
1:54.2	Policy at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Today, we're talking about his new book,
1:58.7	Chook Points, American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare.
2:02.3	Today, you can have the director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in the Treasury Department, sign a document, and impose economic pressure on a foreign country that's even stronger than, you know, when you used to park a naval ship outside of their port.
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