Geoeconomic Statecraft & Weaponized Interdependence

Is the U.S. trying to keep a rules-based system attractive (hegemonic), or is it converting network power into explicit asymmetric extraction/constraint (imperial-ish)?

Many recent actions sit in the middle: they’re justified as national security and resilience, but they also tighten dependency loops and widen asymmetry—classic great-power behavior under…