Weaponized interdependence

Welcome to the age of weaponized interdependence

There is a common trope in the literature on globalization that suggests that greater economic exchange has fragmented and decentralized power relations. We, in contrast, argue that these economic interactions generate new structural conditions of power. Complex interdependence, like many other complex systems, may generate enduring power asymmetries. This observation allows us to bring the literature on security, which has…