October 24, 2025
How to Choke Your Enemy: Why America Turned the World Economy into Its Weapon of Global Domination
Edward Fishman, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, joined host Andrew Keen to discuss how America has turned the world economy into its weapon of global domination. In his bestseller, already shortlisted for the FT’s best business books of the year, Fishman reveals that 21st-century American power relies on economic warfare.
Listen to the full interview on Keen on America.
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