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Economic statecraft and state autonomy: the case of the European Union (EU)
Séminaire de l'axe Europe with Salih Işık Bora
Salih Işık Bora is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG-VUB), currently working in the ERC project Sino-American Competition and European Strategic Autonomy, led by Professor Luis Simón.
Salih obtained his PhD in political science (international relations) from Sciences Po Paris in December 2023. His research interests are at the intersection of international politics and political economy, with original findings in topics such as the geopoliticization of EU competition policy. His PhD dissertation titled 'Escape Forward: French state elites, EU politics and the discursive practice of European sovereignty' was shortlisted for the best thesis prize of the University Association in Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Salih's work featured in journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, French Politics, European Foreign Affairs Review, and West European Politics.
Abstract
The notion of 'economic statecraft' entails that some forms of economic policy are geopolitically-motivated, meaning that they derive from state elites' perception that they act within a competitive and anarchical international system. This paper investigates how such a geopolitical 'sense of self' could develop in the EU where the monopoly on legitimate violence is dispersed across 27 sovereign nation states. I argue that the EU pursued a historically-deviant pathway to state autonomy from industrial policy rather than military institutions.
12h00 - 13h00
Institut d'études européennes - ULB
Salle KANT
39, Avenue F.D Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles
