ABSTRACT

This chapter presents some disciplinary links that exist between Economic Intelligence and International Political Economy (IPE). The work stems from the idea that there is a lack of academic knowledge in the theoretical fields of Strategic Intelligence and a particular component of Economic Intelligence, which is part of a specific area of study. Hence, this analysis and proposal tools to achieve a better decision-making process at the state and private level as well as to intervene politically and economically in the various regions in which states and corporations operate. Under this dynamic, territorial spaces find themselves traversed by links and independent actors that move across geographical borders.

The work developed in this chapter does not have holistic intentions, rather the objective is to identify and discuss the principal overlapping areas, categories and concepts that are used in both disciplines. The aforementioned disciplines incorporate geoeconomic perspectives such as the controversial subject of the interdependence that emerges from international relations. This conceptual outline does not exclude the fields of national security and Economic Intelligence, which constitute factors of permanent concern in contemporary states that operate under the asymmetrical and complex dynamics of globalization.