Home>[Séminaire général du CEE] The EU's Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator

22.10.2024

[Séminaire général du CEE] The EU's Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator

About this event

22 October 2024 from 12:30 until 14:00

K011

1 pl. Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 75007, Paris

Organized by

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
   

Heightened geopolitical tensions and the growing securitization of economic exchange over the past decade have prompted many countries to adopt new geoeconomic tools. Long resistant to this geoeconomic turn, the European Union (EU) has since 2017 created a panoply of innovative policy tools that blend trade and investment with essential security concerns. This article asks why and how the EU has been able to operate the doctrinal and policy changes necessary to put economic tools at the service of geopolitics. After introducing a typology of the defensive and offensive geoeconomic tools deployed by advanced industrial economies, we present the novel geoeconomic toolkit quickly assembled by the EU, which we explain by the confluence of external factors that triggered European leaders' beliefs that change was necessary and internal factors that made such change institutionally and politically possible, a trend reinforced by the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The EU's Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator



Speaker : 

   

Sophie Meunier, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She is Director of the EU Program at Princeton, former Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (2022-2024), and former Acting Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (2023-2024). She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award. She is also co-editor of several books on Europe and globalization, most recently Developments in French Politics 6 (Palgrave MacMillan 2020) and Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance? (Routledge, 2015). Meunier is the former Chair of the European Union Studies Association (2023-2024). Her current work deals with the politics of investment screening mechanisms and the European Union's recent geoeconomic turn, including as part of the PRISM project and the Beauty Contests grant. She was made Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.

 

 

Chair 

Jan Rovny, Sciences Po, CEE

Discussant 

Jean-Baptiste Bonnet, Sciences Po, CEE

About this event

22 October 2024 from 12:30 until 14:00

K011

1 pl. Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 75007, Paris

Organized by

Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)