Is There a Lot of Analysis on the Economic and Political Side of a Conflict?

The possibility of China winning as well as the economic and political consequences of a conflict more generally are not something that has garnered a lot of attention. "There actually aren't that many economists working in the sort of national security domain that would work on these types of questions," he says. But even within the US government where I used to work there are some, like at CIA, who would dabble in these types of analyses.