In this world where we live today, the primary threat of conflict has shifted from territorial borders to the digital ledgers of central banks and the invisible corridors of global finance. The author, Urjit Patel, who is currently serving as the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and a former Reserve Bank of India Governor, provides a clinical autopsy of this transformation. Illustration by The Geostrata While his earlier work, Overdraft, focused on the in