Talk with Professor Sophie Meunier

Join Sophie Meunier, Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and former Chair of the European Union Studies Association, to explore the EU's recent geoeconomic turn and its innovative policy tools in response to global challenges.

Heightened geopolitical tensions and the growing securitisation of economic exchange over the past decade have prompted many countries to adopt new policy tools in response. Long resistant to this geoeconomic turn, the European Union has since 2017 created a panoply of innovative policy tools that blend trade and investment with essential security concerns.

The talk will examine why and how the EU has been able to implement the doctrinal and policy changes necessary to put economic tools at the service of geopolitics, in a major reversal after decades of free market liberal dogma.
The talk will focus on the confluence of external factors that triggered European leaders’ beliefs in the necessity of change, such as the rise of China as a foreign investor and of the US as a protectionist power, and internal factors that made such change institutionally and politically possible, a trend only reinforced by the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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