BOUND BY TRADE
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Enemies on the world stage. Partners in the marketplace.
This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modern geopolitics: how the United States, Russia, China, and Iran-nations locked in sanctions, rivalries, and bitter rhetoric-remain bound together by trade, energy, and finance. From U.S. grain feeding the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, to Chinese factories powering American consumerism even during a trade war, to Iran's oil quietly flowing through shadow fleets, and Russia turning east after Western sanctions, the story is clear: politics divides, but economics always finds a way.
Through gripping case studies and deeply researched analysis, this book reveals the hidden web of interdependence that no leader can fully sever-and asks what it means for the future of a world where enemies cannot afford to let go of one another.
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