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The Return of Geoeconomics
Debates about national security and the global economy are merging into a single debate about relative national power.
FOR DECADES, the study of international security has been divorced from the study of international trade and investment, along with domestic economic development.
- Michael Lind
- The National Interest
In political science departments on university campuses, self-described realists debate defense and diplomacy with idealists of various kinds.
In the economics department next door, there is no debate; the academic economists almost unanimously agree that free trade and…