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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Edward Fishman: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Description: Economic warfare has become the primary way the United States confronts international crises and counters rivals. Sometimes it has achieved spectacular success; other times, bitter failure. The result we live with today is a new world order: an economic arms race among great powers and a fracturing global economy.It used to be that ravaging another country’s economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government.Edward Fishman, a former top State De...