Writing the Playbook: A Strategy and Doctrine for American Economic Security

In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?

Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic statecraft. U. S.

This was despite widening recognition that nations were increasingly using economic tools like tariffs and sanctions to pursue strategic objectives.

awareness was particularly elevated by the realization during COVID-19 that decades of Chinese market manipulation, predatory trade behaviors, and security vulnerabilities deployed against its markets had gone unanswered.

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