Issue 3

Rebuilding the institutional architecture of American economic statecraft.

The Next Chapter of Treasury's War: Redefining a Department of Economic Security

By Alex Zerden and Rachel Lyngaas | INSIGHT

Creating a new Department of Economic Security would be plagued by bureaucratic pitfalls. Instead, policymakers should retool Treasury's national-security office from countering terrorism financing to meet current and emerging threats.

Organized to Fail: The Institutional Architecture of American Economic Warfare

By James J. Tennant | INSIGHT

The United States deploys economic warfare tools at unprecedented scale through institutions never designed for the purpose. Six interdependent layers of institutional failure form a single structural deficit that fragmentation persists because it serves incumbent interests.