Laguna Hills, California May 6, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - Attorney, engineer, international business executive, and global analyst Majid Foroozandeh, Esq. announces the release of Economic Hegemony: The Hidden Architecture of Global Economic Domination, a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of how power operates in the modern world — not through military conquest, but through the deliberate design of economic systems.
“Economic power today rarely announces itself through conquest or colonization,” Foroozandeh writes in the book’s preface. “Instead, it operates through contracts, currencies, standards, institutions, and rules that appear technical, neutral, or inevitable.”
At a moment of escalating sanctions, currency tensions, shifting trade alliances, and growing skepticism toward multilateral institutions, Economic Hegemony makes a precise and uncomfortable argument: the global economic order is not a neutral playing field. Trade regimes, financial institutions, debt structures, regulatory frameworks, and technological standards — long presented as universal rules — operate in practice as instruments that concentrate advantage, constrain sovereignty, and reproduce inequality across generations.
Economic Hegemony is not written in the abstract. It documents these dynamics through a sweeping range of case studies, including the US sanctions regimes against Iran and Venezuela, China’s debt diplomacy in Sri Lanka and Djibouti, the EU’s trade agreements with African and Caribbean nations and their devastating effect on Ghana’s poultry industry, the Niger Delta oil extraction disaster, the Greek debt crisis and IMF conditionalities, and NAFTA’s displacement of Mexican smallholder farmers. The book also examines the August 2025 US-brokered Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal — in which the United States secured a 99-year concession over the strategically vital Zangezur Corridor — as a live example of economic hegemony unfolding in real time. The epilogue addresses the 2026 Venezuela operation under the same analytical lens.
Going further than most works in this space, Economic Hegemony also confronts military neocolonialism — how security partnerships, arms sales, overseas bases, and interventions framed as humanitarian operations serve to protect economic access and political influence for dominant powers long after formal colonialism ended.
Foroozandeh traces the evolution of global power from colonial extraction through the Bretton Woods postwar architecture and into today’s era of dollar weaponization, extraterritorial legal enforcement, digital standard-setting, and cultural hegemony. A chapter on resistance and alternatives explores economic nationalism, regional cooperation frameworks like the African Continental Free Trade Area, and alternative models including the solidarity economy and Buen Vivir.
Foroozandeh brings a rare convergence of disciplines to this analysis. Trained as an engineer before entering international business and legal practice, he examines global power not as a collection of isolated policies but as an integrated system — one that rewards those who understand its architecture and limits those who cannot see it.
Economic Hegemony is not a polemic and does not offer simple villains or easy solutions. It is structured, evidence-based analysis written for policymakers, scholars, legal practitioners, business leaders, journalists, and any reader who wants to understand how global economic power actually operates — and why conventional narratives so often fail to explain it.
Economic Hegemony: The Hidden Architecture of Global Economic Domination releases May 15, 2026 and is available for pre-order on Amazon and major online retailers. Members of the media are invited to request a review copy or schedule an interview with the author.
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