The EU’s Geo-Economic Turn: Economic Security, Statecraft, and Power Politics

Abstract

This panel focuses on the EU’s growing engagement with geo-economic instruments in response to renewed great-power rivalry. The papers examine the rise of economic security as a central policy concern, analysing tools such as trade, industrial policy, investment screening, and state intervention. Together, the contributions assess how the EU is recalibrating its external economic relations in a world marked by strategic competition, state capitalism, and geopolitical risk. The panel sheds light on the tensions between openness and protection, market integration and strategic autonomy, and the broader implications of the EU’s geo-economic turn for global governance.

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Rallies without Flags: The European Parliament Discourse on Chinese Investment in EU Infrastructure	View Paper Details
Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms. An Empirical Approach	View Paper Details
Governing Capital in a Geoeconomic Age: The Rise of Outbound-Investment Screening in the European Union	View Paper Details
Making economic security work: Challenges for the Council and the EU’s institutional balance	View Paper Details
From openness to defence: Norway’s interaction with EU geoeconomic policies in the Single Market	View Paper Details