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The work of the Geoeconomics Center is generously supported by the Amy Falls and Hartley Rogers Foundation.

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The Age of Economic Warfare

Economic warfare has gone global, and the post-1990s economic order, built for an age of efficiency rather than rivalry, is fragmenting. Three futures are possible: managed globalization, competing blocs, or pure transactionalism.

By Edward Fishman

A worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil field, as the country cuts nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of output amid halted exports following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2026. 
A worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil field, as the country cuts nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of output amid halted exports following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2026. 
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How the Iran War Ignited a Geoeconomic Firestorm

Six CFR fellows assess the geoeconomic fallout of the war in Iran, and they analyze the challenges that the United States and the world will have to navigate as the conflict enters its third week.

By Edward Fishman, Brad W. Setser, Michael Werz, Chris McGuire, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. and Rebecca Patterson

Core Questions

The Greenberg Center will address four foundational questions about how the United States should navigate a changing geoeconomic landscape.

  • How can we deploy economic power without eroding its foundations?
  • How can we safeguard economic security without undermining growth and prosperity?
  • How can we secure leadership in the technologies and industries that will define the future?
  • How is the global economic order changing—and what kind of order should we seek to build?

Research

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The Broken Economic Order 

By Heidi E. Crebo-Rediker

America’s rupture with allies, institutions, and global economic norms has left the next U.S. president an international economic system that bears little resemblance to the one that preceded it. The task at hand is not restoration but reinvention.

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Edward Fishman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics

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Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

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Alice C. Hill

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment

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Inu Manak

Senior Fellow for International Trade

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Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

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