Program: The Return of Geo-Economics

Even before President Trump began to explicitly promote U.S. economic nationalism, the wall that divided the national-security realists and the free-market economists was crumbling—mainly because of the rise of China, which has benefited from a version of statist economics while challenging the U.S. military hegemony in Asia. Slowly but inevitably, debates about national security and the global economy are merging into a single dispute about relative national power. This marks a revival of what has been called ‘geo-economics.’ Michael F. Lind is the co-founder of New America and will deliver this program.