Weaponized Interdependence : How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion
▻https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00351#/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00351
Via « Naked Capitalism »
While security scholars have long recognized the crucial importance of energy markets in shaping geostrategic outcomes,4 financial and information markets are rapidly coming to play similarly important roles. In Rosa Brooks’s evocative description, globalization has created a world in which everything became war.5 Flows of finance, information, and physical goods across borders create both new risks for states and new tools to alternatively exploit or mitigate those risks. The result, as Thomas Wright describes it, is a world where unprecedented levels of interdependence are combined with continued jockeying for power, so that states that are unwilling to engage in direct conflict may still employ all measures short of war.6