War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft

摘要

In War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris argue that governments' international economic policies and foreign policies are increasingly growing inseparable in global politics. Their analysis focuses on the "the use of economic instruments... to produce beneficial geopolitical results" via a concept they refer to as "geoeconomics" (pp. 20-21). The book seeks to explain how governments can leverage economic policies and instruments as critical tools in advancing their foreign policy agendas. The authors argue that, increasingly, the regimes of Russia and China are employing foreign policies that rely heavily on geoeconomic strategies, and that the United States has lagged far behind. The book's concluding section lays out an ambitious policy agenda for how US policymakers can more effectively leverage economic instruments of statecraft. This book is a valuable guide for students and policymakers on the use of economic statecraft and is chock-full of ideas for the next US presidential administration on how to employ economic instruments of statecraft more effectively.