Lawfare Daily: "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare," with Edward Fishman
Discussing economic statecraft.
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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.
Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Edward Fishman is a former member of the policy planning staff at the State Department, where he advised the secretary of state on European and Eurasian affairs and led the staff’s work on global sanctions issues. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
