The Nexus of National Security and FDI
In the concluding chapter of my first book, I consider conditions under which openness to FDI might recede, and I emphasize the increasing securitization of FDI as a pathway toward more restricted policy regimes. This project explores the political coalitions that surround the politics of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and how these coalitions reflect larger questions about the blurring lines between national security and economic policy. This is an important emerging area of research because the economic rise of illiberal regimes that use state capitalism to expand their economic and military influence – especially China – generates new challenges for governments that see economic openness as key to development and growth but are concerned by increasingly bold uses of economic statecraft and lack regulatory structures that can adequately differentiate between market-oriented and politically-motivated transactions.
I won a Council of Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in order to spend the 2019-2020 academic year working in the Office of Investment Affairs at the U.S. State Department as a Policy Advisor and CFIUS case officer (CFIUS is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the interagency body that reviews inward investment for national security concerns). CFIUS is notoriously a “black box”; I am grateful to now have a deeper understanding of the CFIUS process and dynamics on the Committee, as well as access to policy experts for qualitative interviews.
Forthcoming. “Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset” (with Sophie Meunier) International Studies Quarterly
2022. TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty? (with Jeremy Friedman and David Lane.) HBS No. N9-722-020. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62354
2021. “Investment Screening in the Shadow of Weaponized Interdependence” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence, edited by Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, pp. 257-272. https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-uses-and-abuses-of-weaponized-interdependence/
In the concluding chapter of my first book, I consider conditions under which openness to FDI might recede, and I emphasize the increasing securitization of FDI as a pathway toward more restricted policy regimes. This project explores the political coalitions that surround the politics of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and how these coalitions reflect larger questions about the blurring lines between national security and economic policy. This is an important emerging area of research because the economic rise of illiberal regimes that use state capitalism to expand their economic and military influence – especially China – generates new challenges for governments that see economic openness as key to development and growth but are concerned by increasingly bold uses of economic statecraft and lack regulatory structures that can adequately differentiate between market-oriented and politically-motivated transactions.
I won a Council of Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in order to spend the 2019-2020 academic year working in the Office of Investment Affairs at the U.S. State Department as a Policy Advisor and CFIUS case officer (CFIUS is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the interagency body that reviews inward investment for national security concerns). CFIUS is notoriously a “black box”; I am grateful to now have a deeper understanding of the CFIUS process and dynamics on the Committee, as well as access to policy experts for qualitative interviews.
Forthcoming. “Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset” (with Sophie Meunier) International Studies Quarterly
2022. TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty? (with Jeremy Friedman and David Lane.) HBS No. N9-722-020. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62354
2021. “Investment Screening in the Shadow of Weaponized Interdependence” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence, edited by Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, pp. 257-272. https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-uses-and-abuses-of-weaponized-interdependence/