World at Economic War

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How to Rebuild Security in a Weaponized Global Economy

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Rebecca Harding

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The World at Economic War is a timely and thought-provokingreminder of the role that economics plays in modern warfare. It argues thateconomics itself is at war – the institutions of the post-war economic orderare riven with challenges to their legitimacy, rendering the old certainties ofmarket-based economics at best contested and at worst irrelevant. It shows how,through the interdependencies of globalization, the market system itself hasbecome a means of ‘great power conflict’, accelerated by the rapid pace offinancial services digitalization. This economic conflict seeps into the wayinternational trade operates, into the way cross-border payments are made, intosupply chains, and even into how financial markets control the capacity ofgovernments to manage macroeconomic policy. The institutions that were constructed to deal with apeacetime economy are no longer adequate against a backdrop of militaryconflict in Europe and the Middle East and heightened tensions in the AsiaPacific region. Spending on defence and security seemed unimportant against abackdrop of globalization, but because the world is now at economic war, thereis limited capacity either to build capacity or to fund our defence andsecurity. Military and economic security are two sides of the same coin: both area means of power projection; both are deeply political; and both are our meansof deterrence, defence, coercion and resilience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-09-16
Mått138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt278 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePerspectives
Antal sidor176
FörlagLondon Publishing Partnership
ISBN9781916749450

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Dr Rebecca Harding is CEO of theCentre for Economic Security and an independent trade economist, author andpublic speaker. Her strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics, providesanalytical services in international trade, trade finance and sustainability.She has held positions as a senior fellow at the British Foreign Policy Group,as head of corporate research at Deloitte, as a senior fellow at LondonBusiness School, and as chief economist at the Work Foundation and at UKFinance. She acted as a specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee andhas advised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship.

“We have a strong tendency to separateelements of national security into manageable bits in order to fit ourexisting structures or our preconceived view of the world. In this importantbook, Rebecca Harding demonstrates that everything is linked to geopolitics,supply chain disruption and frictions caused by crumbling or failing infrastructure.Rebecca Harding has placed economic security at the heart of defence andsecurity thinking, where it needs to be. She calls out the failings in defencefinance, provides a comprehensive analysis of how supply chains are beingdisrupted, and argues that we need to move from economic statecraft to a focuson economic security if we are to resolve all of these existential issues.Passive to active, this is not a call for more discussion, it is a call toaction. I commend it.” — Air Chief Marshal The LordPeach KG GBE KCB DL “The World at Economic War isa tour de force of the threats that we face to our civil society throughfrequent and pervasive attacks on our economic infrastructures. It is a studyin the realpolitik of our current era and provides a pragmatic and surprisinglyupbeat solution by reorienting our thinking around economic security. This is amust read for economists, business leaders and policy makers alike.” — Paul Mason, author of How ToStop Fascism and columnist at The New World “The World at Economic War isobligatory reading for all those who need to understand the role thateconomics plays in modern warfare. Rebecca Harding does not pull her punches.From a starting point that many political leaders still find painful toacknowledge – that the era of the international rules-based order is over – shetakes the reader on a journey through the inadequacies of our currentinstitutional structures, which are legacies of that era, created to deal withthe then threats to Nato allies and now in urgent need of transformation. In sodoing, she lays bare the most pressing challenge of the new age in its starkestpossible terms. Her forensic examination of the problem makes a majorcontribution not just to the debate about the need for drastic change, but alsoto identifying potential solutions.” — Chris Donnelly, PrincipalCounsellor, Earendel Associates Ltd