Economic Statecraft and International Coordination
Description
Webinar Series: War by Other Ledgers
Session 5: Economic Statecraft and the Federal Budget Process
As economic statecraft assumes a more central role in national security strategy, important questions arise about how it is institutionalized within the federal government. This webinar builds on a forthcoming article by Mark Mitchum, Principal, StratAero Advisory, examining the relationship between economic statecraft and the federal budget and planning system to include the Pentagon's Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE) process. The discussion will explore how existing budget structures might integrate evolving economic statecraft initiatives as a sustained instrument of national power.
Moderator:
Madeline Field, Assistant Editor, War on the Rocks
Speakers:
Mark Mitchum, Founder & Principal, StratAero Advisory
Dr. Tim Welter, Senior Research Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
About the Series
Throughout US history, American policymakers have acknowledged that economic security is national security. Today the two are enmeshed more than ever before. Critically interdependent global markets, supply chains, and information flows are wound tightly by technology-enabled networks at a scale never experienced across human history. Concerned about the existential stakes of this issue, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks, a platform for analysis and debate on strategy, defense and foreign affairs, have partnered to elevate this discussion among defense practitioners and national policy circles. Our series, "War by Other Ledgers," will seek to answer these questions, and many more.