April 08, 2025
Chokepoints - How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War
The Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI was delighted to welcome Edward Fishman, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, for a discussion of his new book, ‘Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War’. With Russia, China and Iran seeking to upend the international order while the West mounts an unprecedented economic retaliation, and with the new US administration wielding a range of economic tools to advance its foreign policy agenda, the importance of examining how these tools have become weapons of coercion and war has never been more urgent.
Watch the full interview on the Royal United Services Institute.
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