Guerre économique et théorie de dominances attendues, Ulrich Blum (article)

The de- cisive factor is that economic aspects determine a war or – in peacetime – the nature of bilateral relations." There are four essential characteristics that shape the economic content of the conflict, namely, (i), the causes of war, (ii), the aims of war, (iii) the conduct of warfare proper and, (iv), the consequences of war. [...] TRUMP substantiates the enemy: the European countries and China, and thus follows the agonal phi- losophy of SCHMITT (1932: 27), who radically distinguishes solely between friends and enemies: "The concept of the enemy includes the contingency of an armed struggle in the realm of the real, that means here a war. [...] Has the economization of all spheres of life, as described in the Communist Manifesto of MARX and ENGELS (1848), shifted the theater of conflict towards the economy, and military war to economic war? The remainder of the article is organized as follows: In the second section, I inquire into the many perspectives on economic warfare, firstly, from an anthropological, a social-science and a psycholo. [...] A thorough look at the initial conditions offers too many similarities of the conflict pattern not to wipe away the argument.3 3 Similarities between the Anglo-German and the Sino-American rivalry include, for instance the easy maritime lock- off potentials of the respective nations and extend to the Baghdad-Railroad and Silk-Road Initiatives (access to the Indian Ocean); see BLUM (2019). [...] In an intertemporal sense, the Y1-fields could be intermediate stations: There is a creative destruction according to SCHUM- PETER (1912, 1942), but the returns of the superior are reinvested and also parts of the old capital of the vanquished, so that in the long run the field X is achieved.