Publikasi

INDONESIA MUST ANTICIPATE POST-US ELECTION FOREIGN POLICY CHANGES
Excerpted from Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan’s article published in The Jakarta Post
Other Dr. Hotmangaradja Publications:
City council and national security: oversight of local counterterrorism and security intelligence
Abstract
National security policies increasingly threaten the rules that govern trade and investment flows. This problem is deeper and far more intractable than recent high-profile controversies, such as disputes over the Trump Administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs, suggest. Governments worldwide have adopted national security policies that address an increasingly wide array of risks and vulnerabilities, including climate change; pandemic disease; cybercrime; terrorism; and threats to infrastructure, industry, and the media. These policies are also increasingly likely to conflict with trade and investment rules. In other words, while today’s high-profile controversies center on alleged abuses of national security in economic law, it is the potential for good-faith but novel national security claims that poses a more significant and permanent threat to the system.