Conceptualizing national security in an era of transformative technologies and strategic conflict

Joel Slawotsky

Chapter 6 in A Research Agenda for Global Power Shifts and International Economic Law, 2025, pp 147-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The China–U.S. hegemonic rivalry is generating transformational changes in international economic law. An important aspect of the new international economic architecture is the increasing invocation of national security to justify investment and trade measures. This chapter explores several developments focusing on national security's expanding conceptualization and raises several legal issues that will likely become more pronounced going forward. These issues involve the slippery slope in reconceptualizing security; understanding corporations as quintessential security assets; challenging determinations of security threats; and the potential to file economic tort claims for commercial disparagement if the threats of a security threat are false or recklessly made.

Keywords: Hegemonic rivalry; Conceptualizing national security; Challenging security measures; Corporations and national security assets; Economic torts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035311491
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