The Industrial Policy and Geopolitical Turn in Markets

European Industrial Policy & the New Geopolitics of Markets Workshop

In April 2023, GPEP Co-director Kate McNamara, together with Catherine Hoeffler (Sciences Po Bordeaux) and Frédéric Mérand (University of Montreal), organized a two-day workshop on “European industrial policy & the new geopolitics of markets” at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. At the workshop, participants presented short memos and discussed the resurgence of overt market interventions around decarbonization, technology, and national security, something that was largely taboo during the last three decades of neoliberal politics. This workshop centered on the European Union’s emergent industrial policy while situating it within the broader changes towards a more geopolitical global economy. The goals of the workshop were to take stock of what we know, set out a research agenda, and note some of the key policy challenges the resurgence of industrial policy and geoeconomics is creating.

This workshop was made possible by funding from the Hewlett Foundations’s Economy & Society Initiative.

The workshop informed research by Professor McNamara on “Transforming Europe? The EU’s industrial policy and geopolitical turn,” which was subsequently published at the Journal of European Public Policy.

Workshop Participants: 

Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Professor, University of Copenhagen

Cornel Ban, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School

Fabio Bulfone, Assistant Professor, Leiden University

Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Associate Professor, University of Indiana

Henry Farrell, Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Catherine Hoeffler, Associate Professor, Sciences Po Bordeaux

Kate McNamara, Professor, Georgetown University

Frédéric Mérand, Professor, University of Montreal

Daniel Mertens, Professor, University of Osnabrück

Sophie Meunier, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

Jonas Nahm, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Anke Obendiek, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Vienna

Luuk Schmitz, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Etienne Schneider, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Vienna

Timo Seidl, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Vienna