Book Notes: Chokepoints

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman (2025).There are different ways state A can make state B do something that the state B doesnt really want to do. In the extreme, state A can attack state B. But wars are messy: people die, they can get expensive, and they arent really good PR, so the states usually shy away from them nowadays. More commonly, they resort to economic warfare: stuff like sanctions, blockades, or tariffs.However, history shows that…