Network V: Geoeconomics
We invite submissions that examine how geopolitical change and geoeconomic competition are transforming global capitalism and domestic political economies. The Geoeconomics Network provides a space for scholars across disciplines—such as, but not limited to, socio-economics, political economy, international relations, geography, and development studies—to engage with the structural transformations shaping today’s world order.
As the boundaries between economics and security, and between national and global governance, become increasingly blurred, we seek contributions that address questions such as:
• How do global power shifts—such as the reconfiguration of US, Chinese, and European economic strategies—affect national growth models and capitalist varieties in the center and periphery?
• What are the socio-economic implications of rising geoeconomic competition for growth models, welfare regimes, and inequality?
• How do ideological and political realignments within and across countries mirror transformations in the global order and vice versa?
• In what ways are trade, finance, and production systems being restructured through the rise of new regional or geopolitical blocs?
We particularly welcome theoretical, comparative, and empirical papers that bridge International Political Economy (IPE) and Comparative Political Economy (CPE), and that critically assess the consequences of deglobalization, regionalization, and strategic state intervention for labor, finance, and development.
Network V Organizers
Fulya Apaydin
Milan Babic
Arie Krampf
Andreas Nölke
Judit Ricz
Merve Sancak
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Fulya Apaydin
Fulya Apaydin is an Associate Professor at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain. Her work is situated at the intersection of comparative politics and international studies with a particular emphasis on the political economy of development. Broadly, she is interested in how investment policies across emerging economies are transformed in the face of global pressures, and how political actors respond to these challenges at the local and national levels. She is currently focused on two interrelated lines of research: a first project unpacks the rise of private debt regimes in the Global South, explaining cross-national variations in the governance of credit allocation. A second project examines the causes and consequences of the new space race as part of industrial policy in the 21st century. Fulya holds a PhD from Brown University. Previously, she was a visiting researcher at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Kadir Has University and SOAS, London. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as World Development, Regulation and Governance, Socio-economic Review, Review of International Political Economy, Perspectives on Politics and Competition & Change, among others. She is the author of Technology, Institutions and Labor: Manufacturing Automobiles in Argentina and Turkey (Palgrave, 2018).
University of Amsterdam
Milan Babic
Milan Babic is Associate Professor in Political Economy at the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam and PI of the DECARB project. His work deals with the transformations of the global political economy towards a geoeconomic global order; the political economy of decarbonization; and state-led investment. He previously taught at the Universities of Maastricht and Roskilde. In 2024, Milan was an ISRF Early Career Fellow. His work has appeared, among others, in International Affairs, Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy and Energy Research&Social Science. His latest books are The Rise of State Capital (Agenda 2023) and Geoökonomie (Suhrkamp 2025).
Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo
Arie Krampf
Arie Krampf an Associate Professor at the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, and the head of the BA Program for Philosophy, Political Science and Economics (PPE). Arie holds a PhD. from Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University. He was a postdoc at “The KFG The Transformative Power of Europe” at Free University Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and the Davis Institute for International Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Arie has published in top-ranked journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of European Integration, Israel Studies, Israel Affairs, Science in context and others. Arie is a member in the board of the Israeli Association for International Studies (IAIS) and a member of the board the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI).
Goethe University
Andreas Nölke
Dr. Andreas Nölke is Professor of Political Science at Goethe University (Frankfurt) and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. Before joining Goethe University, he has taught at the universities of Konstanz, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Utrecht. His main research areas are at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, including the political economy of emerging economies, the political dimensions of financialization, the institutions of the German export model, the politics of European economic (dis-)integration and the political economy of populism. He has published in journals such as the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, World Politics, Business and Politics, International Politics, Competition and Change, the European Journal of International Relations, Critical Perspectives on International Business, the Review of African Political Economy, the Socio-Economic Review, Environment and Planning and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Corvinus University
Judit Ricz
Judit Ricz is an Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, Institute of Global Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest and Head of Research Group on Development Economics at the Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies in Budapest, Hungary. Her work lies at the intersection of development studies, international political economy and comparative capitalism research. She holds a PhD in Economics from University of Debrecen, and conducted post-doctoral research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on developmental states. More recently her research focuses on analysing different forms of state capitalism, illiberalism and new industrial policies in non-hegemonic powers (incl. the Central Eastern European region). She has co-edited several volumes in the International Political Economy Series by Palgrave and her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Competition & Change, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, New Perspectives, and Society and Economy In Central and Eastern Europe, among others.
Loughborough University London
Merve Sancak
Dr Merve Sancak is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London. Her research sits at the intersection of comparative political economy, international political economy, and economic sociology. She is interested in understanding how national and international political and economic dynamics intersect and affect economic activity, and particularly the role of the state and national politics in mediating the impact of global dynamics. Her current work investigates the international linkages of labour markets in late industrialising countries, and the implications of this for employment relations. Her research has been funded by British Academy, Global Development Network, Cambridge Political Economy Society, and the Mexican Agency for International Development. Her recent book Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation (2022) was published Oxford University Press. Her articles have been published by Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Competition & Change, Global Networks, and Industrial Relations Journal. She holds a PhD in Economic Sociology from the University of Cambridge.
SASE Networks
A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations
This network focuses on the moral or values-based underpinnings of human thought, practices, and institutions that comprise civil societies, particularly as they relate to the participatory, collectivist, and democratic aspirations of organizations, markets, and other spaces of collaboration and contestation.
B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development
This network considers how, at a time of a polycrisis, domestic, transnational, and international institutions and markets influence the contours of developmental opportunities in the global economy and beyond.
C: Gender, Work & Family
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D: Professions and Expertise
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E: Comparative Capitalisms
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F: KITE: Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
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G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources
The network welcomes contributions on the general issues of labor market segmentation, unemployment, and the link between training, skills and jobs.
H: Markets, Firms and Institutions
This network focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms, and institutions.
I: Alternatives to Capitalism
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J: Digital Economy
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K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment
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L: Regulation and Governance
This network promotes the interdisciplinary study of regulation and governance at national and global levels.
M: Spanish Language
A lively Spanish-speaking section that was established in 2011.
N: Finance and Society
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O: Global Value Chains
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P: Accounting, Economics, and Law
This network focuses on the intersection of accounting, economics and law. Institutional design, rules and social norms are critical to the working of organizations in economy and society.
Q: Asian Capitalisms
The basic idea of this first area network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of investigation for theories of institutional change and diversity of capitalism.
R: Islamic Moral Economy and Finance
This network aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together to consider and discuss the role of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance in achieving its stated ideals by highlighting the tension areas as well as the dynamism observed in the practice of Islamic finance.
S: Environment and Climate Change
This Network aspires to advance a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical dialogue on the interactions between the economy, society, and the environment.
T: Health
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U: Postcolonialism and Legacies of Empire
This network is devoted to engaging the connections between imperialism, colonialism, racism, slavery, and capitalist expansion and global socio-economic development.
V: Geoeconomics
This network explores empirical and theoretical puzzles at the intersection of geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in an era of ongoing global transformation. It brings together scholars studying how intensifying rivalries, shifting power relations, and geoeconomic competition reshape state strategies, growth models, welfare regimes, and global production networks (and vice versa).
W: Elites and Power Structures
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