Editor’s note: this article is adapted from a presentation that Amb. Robert D. Blackwill gave at the Naval War College’s Current Strategy Forum on June 15, 2016. I am delighted to be back at the Naval ...
Jan. 5 (Asia Today) --By 2026, understanding international relations and shaping national core-interest strategies should start from a geoeconomic perspective. Geoeconomics links geopolitics and ...
The U.S. should ramp up its energy diplomacy in Europe and help better insulate our European partners from Russian gas coercion. Gas supplies are a powerful tool of geoeconomics--using “economic ...
Economic statecraft is in fashion. Sanctions, export controls, tariffs, investment screening mechanisms, and trade agreements have become go-to tools for Western states to pursue geopolitical goals.
Someday an updated edition of The Art of the Deal may be placed on the bookshelf next to Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality, Nicholas Spykman’s America’s Strategy in World Politics, and ...
We have entered a new world economy shaped by two fundamental forces: geoeconomic fragmentation and exponential innovation. In this environment, established cooperative and diplomatic frameworks are ...
The new National Security Strategy (NSS), which the White House rolled-out on December 18, 2017, is long on self-described realism but short on geoeconomic strategy. Proclaiming a return to principled ...
On January 27, President Biden signed an executive order to put the United States on a path to end “international financing of carbon-intensive fossil fuel-based energy.” This new strategy, whose ...
With the recent emergence of two adversarial geopolitical blocs, the fantasy of a “liberal world order,” which is currently driving President Joe Biden’s foreign economic policy, must be buried. The ...
In a world defined by volatility and a shift toward multipolar power, influence now rests less on legacy alliances and more on control of energy, chips, supply chains and data. The new world order is ...
The pattern is straightforward: threaten harsh tariffs, negotiate down to something painful but manageable, and walk away claiming a win. During his presidency, Donald Trump made it very clear that ...