Europe’s new geoeconomic cleavages
From capitalist diversity to international vulnerability in European political economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24237704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Mertens (0000-0002-2194-8293, Institute of Social Sciences, Osnabrueck University), Alexander Reisenbichler (0000-0002-8024-9521, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-34 |
| Publication date | 2026-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-2290 • E-ISSN: 1466-4526 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09692290.2026.2745879 |
| OpenAlex | W7222993726 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 58 |
capitalist diversity · economic cleavages · European union · geoeconomics · Global Value Chains · political economy of Europe · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · Political Economy and Marxism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
Toward a Geoeconomic Order in International Trade and Investment
Measuring economic interdependence
Industrial policy and comparative political economy
Diminishing Returns
Mister Chips goes to Brussels
European Union policy on 5G
The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences
High-road or low-road? Europe’s EV battery rollout and the tradeoffs of green industrial policy in a geoeconomic world
Is the China Effect Real? Ideational Change and the Political Contestation of Chinese State-Led Investment in Europe
The Eurozone crisis and the rise of China in the global monetary and trading system
Introduction
External pressures from ‘enemies’, ‘rivals’ and ‘allies’
Assessing external pressures
Politics of de-risking
Foundering on fallacies
The impact of trade policy on global production networks
Which side are you on? Geoeconomic coercion and German corporate networks in the US–China rivalry
The profits of power
The domestic sources and power dynamics of regulatory networks
Economic interdependence and economic sanctions
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU
The Euro Crisis’ Theory Effect
Wind of change
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency
Transforming Europe? The EU's industrial policy and geopolitical turn
Geopolitics meets business interests
Is Europe really forged through crisis? Pandemic EU and the Russia – Ukraine war
The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market? Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Trends
Geoeconomic Power Europe
From quiet to noisy politics
Some differences, many similarities
Huawei, 5G and Security
State-building and the European Union
EU Geoeconomic Power in the Clean Energy Transition
Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy
Europe first? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market
European Integration and the New Global Disorder
The EU's Geoeconomic Turn
Historical Institutionalism in International Relations
The Big Reveal
From Merkelmania to Malaise
The Comparative Political Economy of Growth Models
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