The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World (eBook)

This book brings together researchers from different analytical perspectives for the study of contemporary geoeconomics to create a broader and more useful catalogue of conceptual tools, empirical entry points, and case studies around the subject. The distinctive contribution this book offers is its firm rooting in International Political Economy and the hitherto under-researched geoeconomics dynamics of Europe. Many existing accounts of geoeconomics have been developed in International Relations and often reproduce some of the state-centric and static assumptions of the discipline. Recent scholarship furthermore tends to focus on the US-China rivalry, thus discounting the role of other global powers in shaping geoeconomics. As a first collective contribution to the topic in the field of International Political Economy, the book stands to become a major reference point in the field for the coming years. Interest in geoeconomics as well as in related concepts like weaponized interdependence or emerging new rivalries has been on the rise in recent years and will be one of the key research areas in the coming decade of transition and change in Europe and beyond.

Chapters 1, 2 and 7 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Milan Babic is Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy at Roskilde University and author of The Rise of State Capital (forthcoming). His work deals with foreign state-led investment and the transformations of the global political economy from a neoliberal toward a post-neoliberal global order.

Adam Dixon is Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University. He is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE).

Imogen T. Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate at Maastricht University. Her research covers subjects including state capital, financialization, foreign investment, infrastructure development, and the political economy of China.