How globalized information networks can be used for strategic advantage.Until recently, globalization was viewed, on balance, as an inherently good thing that would benefit people and societies nearly everywhere. Now there is growing concern that some countries will use their position in globalized networks to gain undue influence over other societies through their dominance of information and financial networks, a concept known as 'weaponized interdependence'. In exploring the conditions under which China, Russia, and the United States might be expected to weaponize control of information and manipulate the global economy, the contributors to this volume challenge scholars and practitioners to think differently about foreign economic policy, national security, and statecraft for the twenty-first century. The book addresses such questions as: What areas of the global economy are most vulnerable to unilateral control of information and financial networks? How sustainable is the use of weaponized interdependence? What are the possible responses from targeted actors? And how sustainable is the open global economy if weaponized interdependence becomes a default tool for managing international relations?
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Henry Farrell is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. Abraham L. Newman is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University, and director of the Mortara Center for International Studies.
1. Introduction: The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence Part I: Theory 2. Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion 3. Hegemony and Fear: The National Security Determinants of Weaponized Interdependence 4. The Road to Revisionism: How Interdependence Gives Revisionists Weapons for Change Part II: Finance 5. Weaponized Interdependence and International Monetary Systems 6. Weaponizing International Financial Interdependence Part III: Tech 7. Internet Platforms Weaponizing Choke Points 8. Huawei, 5G, and Weaponized Interdependence Part IV: Energy 9. Weaponizing Energy Interdependence 10. Russia's Gazprom: A Case Study in Misused Interdependence Part V: State-Owned Networks 11. Weaponized Weapons: The U.S. F-35 and European Eurofighter Networks 12. Coercion Unbound? China's Belt and Road Initiative Part VI: Responses to Weaponized Interdependence 13. Weaponized Interdependence, the Dynamics of Twenty-first Century Power, and U.S. Grand Strategy 14. Investment Screening in the Shadow of Weaponized Interdependence 15. Weaponized Interdependence and Human Rights 16. Must the Weak Suffer What They Must? The Global South in a World of Weaponized Interdependence 17. Weaponized Interdependence and Networked Coercion: A Research Agenda Contributors Index
Weaponized Interdependence' is now 'a thing' and one of the hot concepts in international relations, and indeed it is an essential idea for understanding the world. This volume has the ideal editors, and it is a wonderful introduction to the topic."- Tyler Cowen, professor of economics, George Mason University; "In bilateral relations, states use asymmetrical interdependence to coerce others. In networks with increasing returns to scale, they use 'weaponized interdependence' to do so. The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence demonstrates the importance of weaponized interdependence in contemporary world politics and is essential reading for scholars and policymakers alike."- Robert O. Keohane, professor emeritus, Princeton University, and co-author, Power and Independence; "New technologies have been introduced quickly. These new technologies have produced new opportunities for the use of power. The tight relationship between underlying capabilities and the ability to do harm has been severed. The old world is at an end. This volume is at least a beginning on getting some grasp on how this new world will develop."- Stephen D. Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Stanford University
