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.