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Underground empire : how America weaponized the world economy / Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman.

by Farrell, Henry, 1970-

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Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Technology and state -- Control.

United States -- Foreign economic relations.

United States -- Economic policy.

United States -- Commercial policy.

9781250840554 (hc.)

278 p. : map ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-264) and index.

"Today's headlines about trade wars, sanctions, and semiconductor battles are merely surface tremors hinting at greater tensions within. Multinational companies like AT&T and Citigroup once made vast profits by reorganizing the international economy and putting themselves at the center. After 9/11, America's security state discovered it could weaponize these economic hubs both for espionage and as choke points in the war against terror. Before long, the United States began using thses new powers as a matter of course. Now, other countries are pushing back. Slowly but surely, Washington has turned the most vital pathways of the world economy into tools of domination over foreign businesses and countries, whether they are rivals or allies, allowing the Untied States to maintain global supremacy. In the process, we have sleepwalked into a new struggle for empire. Using true stories and deeply researched original reporting, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, whose field-defining work on weaponized interdependence forecasted how these seemingly ordinary aspects of the post-Cold War economy have become realms of subterfuge and coercion, reveal what we must do to ensure that this new arms race doesn't spiral out of control." --Jacket.

Henry Farrell is the SNF Agora Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology, Editor-in-Chief of The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post, and co-founder of the popular academic blog, Crooked Timber. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Farrell has written for publications such as The New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, Aeon, New Scientist, and The Nation.

Abraham L. Newman is a professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. Known for his research on the politics generated by globalization, he serves as a frequent commentator on international affairs, appearing on news programs ranging from Al Jazeera to Deutsche Welle and NPR. His work has been published in leading outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nature, Science, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, and Politico.

Newman, Abraham, 1973-

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