Economic Tools of National Security

Harvard HLS

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In recent years, the United States has come to rely heavily on economic tools to address national security concerns. The United States has deployed economic sanctions, export controls, tariffs, and investment screening regimes to address issues such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technological competition with China, cybersecurity threats, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and human rights abuses. Many of these economic tools rest on…