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State of play: The report examines the likely consequences if world leaders continue their march toward greater use of sanctions, export controls, tariffs and other tools of statecraft that create bigger economic barriers between nations.
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Courtenay Brown, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Frameworks like this could be leveraged to strengthen centralization, potentially solidifying the U.S.'s grip on bitcoin and transforming it from an open, neutral network into a tool of statecraft.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In 2023, the European Commission released an economic security strategy document laying out how economic statecraft measures such as export controls could have ripple effects across the continent and beyond.
—Agathe Demarais, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
Ideological hubris has often pushed U.S. statecraft off course, and Trump exhibits due caution toward the overzealous promotion of democracy abroad.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Courtenay Brown, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Frameworks like this could be leveraged to strengthen centralization, potentially solidifying the U.S.'s grip on bitcoin and transforming it from an open, neutral network into a tool of statecraft.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In 2023, the European Commission released an economic security strategy document laying out how economic statecraft measures such as export controls could have ripple effects across the continent and beyond.
—Agathe Demarais, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
Ideological hubris has often pushed U.S. statecraft off course, and Trump exhibits due caution toward the overzealous promotion of democracy abroad.
—Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Statecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statecraft. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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statecraft
noun
state·craft
ˈstāt-ˌkraft 
: the art of conducting government affairs
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