Elements of Economic Security

Thus was written for Chinatalk’s Essay Contest on Economic Security, and was originally submitted in 2026-02-24 AD (and thus before the Iran war). The original submitted pdf can be found here. Introduction Back in 2024 I was part of the first class of a new course at the Swedish Defence University titled Economic Security in Competition, Conflict and War. Throughout that course it became clearer and clearer to me that the field of economic security has a central element that makes ...