Extrastatecraft also sometimes referred to as extra-statecraft is a term that refers to the activities that a state or government does, statecraft, through means that are beyond entities belonging to the state.
Extrastatecraft is a reflection on the strategy used by modern governments to achieve their goals without using state resources or entities. With extrastatecraft, the state makes use of the private sector, public spaces or infrastructure in order to achieve its goals, whatever they may be in a particular situation. Achieving the goals of statecraft with "resources beyond that which explicitly belong to the state."[1]