Economic Statecraft and International Coordination
Description
Webinar Series: War by Other Ledgers
Session 4: Economic Statecraft and the Information Challenge
This webinar session builds on an article examining how economic statecraft should be coordinated with allies and partners. As the United States seeks to advance economic competition alongside likeminded countries, how should economic statecraft efforts be aligned across diplomatic, economic, and security relationships? What role do the State Department, embassies, and other diplomatic channels play in coordinating economic activities abroad? How can the United States effectively align its approach with partners whose governmental structures and economic authorities differ from its own?
Moderator:
Madeline Field, Assistant Editor, War on the Rocks
Speakers:
Georgie Skipper, CEO, Lucetia Group
Dr. Tim Welter, Senior Research Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
About the Series
Throughout US history, American policymakers have acknowledged that economic security is national security. Today the two are enmeshed more than ever before. Critically interdependent global markets, supply chains, and information flows are wound tightly by technology-enabled networks at a scale never experienced across human history. Concerned about the existential stakes of this issue, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks, a platform for analysis and debate on strategy, defense and foreign affairs, have partnered to elevate this discussion among defense practitioners and national policy circles. Our series, "War by Other Ledgers," will seek to answer these questions, and many more.