Essay in NBR Special Report 116
Introduction: Achieving Resilience in an Era of Disruption
This introductory essay by Saori N. Katada first examines the growing risk to economic resilience and the measures being taken to tackle economic coercion. It then considers the role of digital technology and cybersecurity as they become critical features of economic security. The third section covers U.S.-Japan cooperation on collective resilience and the challenges the two countries face in achieving this objective. This introduction concludes with short synopses of the five essays in this report.
Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and the Director of the Center for International Studies. She is the author of Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific (2020).