FEATURED TOPIC - ECONOMIC STATECRAFT
War By Other Ledgers
Economic security for the 21st century.
2026 Economic Statecraft Summit
October 5–6, 2026
Unleashing the private sector in service of the national interest. Hosted with the Texas A&M Bush School in Washington, D.C.
Economic security
is national security.
Economics is a lever of national power which has evolved into an active operational domain of modern global competition and warfare. This special series of articles and webinars draws attention to how the US can and should wield economic power to compete, coerce, and deter in an increasingly contested global order.
READ THE BOOK
See the roadmap
for Economic
Statecraft.
The Potomac Institute’s new edited volume, War By Other Ledgers, explores the contemporary strategy and practice of economic statecraft in today’s contested global economy. This book brings together practitioners and scholars from government, the military, industry, academia, and partner nations to help clarify contemporary economic statecraft challenges and offer practical ideas for its future development.
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Opinion 
