Project description
Trade wars, trade deals, and threats of increasing import tariffs. Global economic powers are competing in a race for technological dominance. The EU is attempting to respond to this challenge by catching up on the economic statecraft displayed by other big powers. However, this is proving difficult due to internal contestation.
Geoeconomic FaultLines is a five-year, NWO-funded research project that will investigate how the geoeconomic turn is transforming the coalitional politics in the EU, providing insights into the political barriers for the EU to develop the aspired economic statecraft.
In the spotlight
Publications & Data
- Herranz-Surrallés, A., Damro, C. and Eckert, S. (2024) The Geoeconomic Turn of the European Single Market, Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(4), Special Issue. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685965/2024/62/4]
The Issue offers one of the first comprehensive analyses of the EU’s role the “geoeconomic turn” in international affairs, covering a wide range of areas (i.a. trade, energy, defence, digital economy).
- Herranz-Surrallés, A. (2024). The European Energy Transition in a Geopoliticising World, Geopolitics, 29(5), 1882-1912.[https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2283489]
Building on current debates on the ‘geopoliticization’ of foreign economic policies, this paper sets out a conceptual framework to assess the extent to which the energy transition is becoming geopoliticized in the European Union (EU) and its impact on international energy relations.
- Adriaensen J. & E. Postnikov. (2022). The geo-economic turn in FTA negotiations? EU trade policy in the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave – International Studies series. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81281-2]
This book provides a first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis.