[Canberra Security Economics Network] What the hell is economic security? With Brad Glosserman

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About the event

What is economic security? What started off as a cautious reaction by governments to the use of global markets for strategic leverage — or geoeconomics — quickly became a discipline in its own right. Bureaucracies and research programs have been reorganised around it. Resilience, de-risking, strategic autonomy and strategic indispensability have become part of the lexicon.

But what exactly is the question being answered? Is economic security protectionism in disguise? Or is there a legitimate need for a new framework to jointly pursue national security and prosperity in a changed global order?

To examine these questions and how economic security is being defined and deployed, the Canberra Security Economics Network will be joined by Brad Glosserman, a leading international voice on Asia Pacific regional security.

How to attend

This event will be held online. Microsoft Teams details will be emailed to all registered attendees one day before the event.

Date & time

Wednesday 18 March 2026

10:00am-11:15pm Canberra time

About the speaker

Brad Glosserman is senior advisor to and director of research at Pacific Forum, a foreign policy think tank focused on the Indo-Pacific that is located in Honolulu Hawaii.  He's been affiliated with Pacific Forum for 25 years, and has run its strategic programs, its next-generation initiatives and is launching an economic security program. He has moved between between Tokyo and Honolulu pretty much non-stop since 1991.

He is the author of Peak Japan: The End of Grand Ambitions (Georgetown University Press, 2019), co-author with Gil Rozman of Japan's Rise as a Regional and Global Power: 2013-2023 (Routledge, 2024), and  co-author with Scott Snyder, of The Japan–ROK Identity Clash (Columbia University Press, 2015). His new book on the geopolitics of high tech, Tech-gemony, will be published by Hurst in a few months. 

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