ABSTRACT
Defending states' national interests requires a modified perception of their security needs as commercial, technological, financial and cultural factors of power have become increasingly important since the end of the Cold War. Living standards, jobs, and prosperity of states in general depend more and more on external factors as globalisation has diminished the frontiers between domestic and international economies. Although states may be losing some ability to regulate internal and external affairs because of globalisation, they can still strongly impact their own geoeconomic disposition. The so-called neoliberal ideology advocates a high degree of deregulation, rapidly opening up the domestic economy to international exchanges and investments, privatisation of most sectors of the economy, and limitation of the public sector. One of the most important components of a successful geoeconomic strategy is economic intelligence (EI). This chapter presents a few elements of strategic frameworks of EI through examples from Japan and the USA.
