{"product_id":"punishing-putin-1","title":"Punishing Putin","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A brilliant book’\u003cb\u003e Alastair Campbell, The Rest is\nPolitics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat\nand mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of\nglobal trade. Magisterial and gripping’ \u003cb\u003eCatherine Belton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book’ \u003cb\u003eOwen\nMatthews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e‘A very good book’ \u003cb\u003eMark Galeotti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eUndeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir\nPutin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In the\nhours that followed, Western leaders weaponized economic tools in a\nworld-changing financial experiment. The goal was to sap the strength of\nPutin’s war machine by damaging its economy, without risking a global recession\nin the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePunishing Putin\u003c\/i\u003e, veteran journalist Stephanie\nBaker uncovers how this furious financial war has unfolded, from seizing\nsuperyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to blocking the sale of\nmilitary technology. Baker reveals how the West mobilized an army of white-collar-crime\ninvestigators to crack down on illicit Russian money, targeting oligarchs and\ntheir enablers for sanctions evasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFilled with propulsive, fly-on-the-wall details, \u003ci\u003ePunishing\nPutin\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the frantic backroom deliberations that led to a\nwhole new era of economic statecraft and radically rearranged global alliances,\ninfluencing world order for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStephanie Baker is an award-winning journalist and Senior\nWriter on the investigations team at Bloomberg, and has been writing about the\nRussian invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStephanie has chronicled the rise and fall of Russian\nbillionaires and has written extensively about sanctions placed on Russia since\n2018. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe lived in Moscow during the mid-1990s, reporting on the\neconomic transformation of Russia for The Moscow Times, Radio Free Europe\/Radio\nLiberty and Bloomberg. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStephanie has appeared regularly on BBC TV and Radio,\nBloomberg Television, NPR and PBS. \u003ci\u003ePunishing Putin\u003c\/i\u003e is her\nfirst book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44770751250639,"sku":"9780008653446","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_05971b21-c692-4d90-98d7-8ae3e918bb69.jpg?v=1777000385","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/punishing-putin-1","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}