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Heath on the Chokepoint State
J. Benton Heath (Temple University Beasley School of Law) has posted The Chokepoint State on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper argues that the second Trump administration is crystallizing a new phase of U.S. state-building—the Chokepoint State. In the Chokepoint State, state capacity is directed toward creating and controlling key nodes in financial and data networks, with the aim of using that control to punish adversaries, reward allies, and set new rules of the road.