About the discussion
What is economic security? What started off as a cautious reaction by governments to the use of global markets for strategic leverage — or geoeconomics — quickly became a discipline in its own right. Bureaucracies and research programs have been reorganised around it. Resilience, de-risking, strategic autonomy and strategic indispensability have become part of the lexicon.
But what exactly is the question being answered? Is economic security protectionism in disguise? Or is there a legitimate need for a new framework to jointly pursue national security and prosperity in a changed global order?
To examine these questions and how economic security is being defined and deployed, the Canberra Security Economics Network was joined by Brad Glosserman, a leading international voice on Asia Pacific regional security.
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The speaker
Brad Glosserman
Pacific Forum
Brad Glosserman is senior advisor to and director of research at Pacific Forum, a foreign policy think tank focused on the Indo-Pacific that is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. He’s been affiliated with Pacific Forum for 25 years, and has run its strategic programs, its next-generation initiatives and is launching an economic security program. He has moved between Tokyo and Honolulu pretty much non-stop since 1991.
He is the author of Peak Japan: The End of Grand Ambitions (Georgetown University Press, 2019), co-author with Gil Rozman of Japan’s Rise as a Regional and Global Power: 2013–2023 (Routledge, 2024), and co-author with Scott Snyder of The Japan–ROK Identity Clash (Columbia University Press, 2015). His new book on the geopolitics of high tech, Tech-gemony, will be published by Hurst in a few months.