World at Economic War

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

• Preface CHAPTER 1Are we at economic war, and what is it? CHAPTER 2Why are we at economic war? CHAPTER 3The unforeseen consequences of economic statecraft CHAPTER 4Institutional and systemic economic war CHAPTER 5How to fight economic war CHAPTER 6How to identify economic security threats CHAPTER 7How to wargame economic war CHAPTER 8Building economic security Notes