Impact Area
War By Other Ledgers, the annual Economic Statecraft Summit and related analysis on how the United States can wield economic power.
Overview
Economics is a lever of national power which has evolved into an active operational domain of modern global competition and warfare. The Institute's War By Other Ledgers 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.
The edited volume War By Other Ledgers brings together practitioners and scholars from government, the military, industry, academia and partner nations to clarify contemporary economic statecraft challenges and offer practical ideas for its future.
In October 2025 the Institute and Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service hosted the Fifth Annual Summit on Economic Statecraft, “Navigating a Reset of the Global Economic Order.”
Institute Work
A multi-article, multi-webinar series dedicated to economic security for the 21st century.
Annual summit co-hosted with Texas A&M's Bush School; the 2025 summit report is in the research library.
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Related Research
Economic Security
This book grew out of several years of work under the Institute's Global Competition Project. Its chapters expand on an 11-part article series with War on the Rocks, exploring how the United States might evolve contemporary economic statecraft into strategy and practice.
Tim Welter (ed.), Jennifer Buss (ed.), Kimberly Sloan (ed.)
Economic Security
On October 23-24, 2025, the Institute and Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service hosted the Fifth Annual Summit on Economic Statecraft, “Navigating a Reset of the Global Economic Order.” Analysis of the discussions resulted in seven key themes with eleven recommendations.
Tim Welter, Jason Blessing, William Norris, Joshua Stinson
Economic Security
The final article in an 11-part series with War on the Rocks examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem.
Tim Welter
Cyber & Data
The seventh article in an 11-part series with War on the Rocks on economic statecraft. Americans lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime in 2025, a new record for cyber-enabled economic losses.
Jason Blessing
Economic Security
The tenth article in an 11-part series with War on the Rocks. The United States is fighting a new kind of global competition — over supply chains, chips, and sanctions — and the workforce pipeline to support it does not yet exist at the scale the moment requires.
Jennifer Buss
Economic Security
Economic Security
There was once a time when it was assumed that China would move toward liberal democratic institutions and, with that, pursue a more open capitalist economy. This assumption was based on the argument that as China grew richer through capital investment and market-driven economic expansion, its population’s values and outlook would become more Westernized.
Francis A. Finelli, Timothy Welter, PhD
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