The author would like to extend special thanks to Dewjeong Lee for her substantive research and project management support. The United States has recently pursued “friendshoring” of supply chains to ...

Middle powers such as South Korea and Germany are at risk of becoming victims of great power politics in light of growing China-U.S. frictions. Faced with similar challenges from trade protectionism, ...

For most of the postwar period, U.S. international economic policy was primarily aimed at seizing opportunities: opening global markets, promoting growth, improving efficiency. Today, it is largely ...

Fostering mutually beneficial partnerships and supporting resilient and sustainable value chains remains our priority to reduce risk both for our economies, as well as globally, and ensure sustainable ...

Consider the drone: Although it is critical to national defense and prosperity, nearly all its components are made in China. A country’s economic security—its ability to generate both national ...

Economic security has been hitting the headlines in recent years, with the catchcry that “economic security is national security” underpinning many countries’ view of the world today. While there is ...

Strategic competition over the world’s next generation of foundational technologies is underway, and U.S. advantages in artificial intelligence, quantum, and biotechnology are increasingly contested.

Welcome to the Economic Security Spotlight, a bi-weekly newsletter from the newly established CSIS Economic Security and Technology (EST) Department. We launched this department with the recognition ...

The comparison between “strategic decoupling” and “de-risking” provides a framework for analyzing how each candidate of the upcoming U.S. presidential election approaches economic security policies.

In explaining NATO to the American people in a March 1949 radio address, Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked “will the treaty accomplish its purpose?” “No one can say with certainty,” he answered, ...

The world has entered an era in which economic conflict can increasingly determine the fate of nations. While the use of economic tactics to gain geopolitical advantage extends back to ancient Greece, ...