Geopoliticization and the changing international political economy of global value chains

Abstract 

The key objective of this workshop is to advance the debate on how an increasingly geopoliticized international system impacts Global Value Chains (GVCs) by embedding it within a distinctive International Political Economy (IPE) perspective. Geopoliticization involves a closer integration of security considerations in the process of how actors’ preferences, political mobilization patterns, and strategies are formulated in both the creation of, and responses to, policies and dynamics affecting GVCs. The workshop aims to illuminate the transformative effects of geopoliticization on the domestic political processes that influence the micro- and meso-level dimensions of the geopolitics-GVCs nexus. In short, the ultimate objective of this workshop is to illuminate the various causal pathways connecting the micro-, meso-, and macro-level dimensions of the geopolitics-GVCs nexus.

Convernors

• Jappe Eckhardt, University of York
• Arlo Poletti, University of Trento
• Ka Zeng, University of Massachusetts Amherst