Publications

Books

Babić, M. (2025): Geoökonomie. Anatomie der neuen Weltordnung. Suhrkamp (edition suhrkamp). Link | Foreign Rights page.

Babić, M. (2023): The Rise of State Capital. Transforming Markets and International Politics. Agenda / Columbia University Press (Comparative Political Economy Series) [open access] | Link (US) | Link (UK/Europe) | Review in ERIS | Review in Slavic Review

Papers

2025

Sharma, E.S., Babić, M. (2025): Introduction: The international political economy of green finance. Competition & Change, online first. [open access] | Link

Babić, M., Linsi, L. (2025): Mapping corporate investments between China and Europe in an era of geoeconomic competition. Journal of Common Market Studies 63 (3), 932-963. [open access] | Link | Data

Babić, M., Mertens, D. (2025): Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany’s pathway toward net zero. Regulation & Governance 19 (2), 448-468. [open access] | Link

2024

Babić, M. (2024): Green finance in the global energy transition: Actors, instruments, and politics. Energy Research & Social Science 111, 103482. [open access] | Link

Babić, M., de Graaff, N., Linsi, L., & Weinhardt, C. (2024): The geoeconomic turn in international trade, investment, and technology. Politics and Governance 12, 9031. [open access] | Link

Ylönen, M., Raudla, R., & Babić, M. (2024): From tax havens to cryptocurrencies: secrecy-seeking capital in the global economy. Review of International Political Economy 31 (2), 563-588. [open access] | Link

2023

Babić, M., Dixon, A.D. (2023): Decarbonising states as owners. New Political Economy 28 (4), 608-627. [open access] | Link

Babić, M., Sharma, S.E. (2023): Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown. New Political Economy 28 (5), 758-779. [open access] | Link

Babić, M. (2023): State capital in a geoeconomic world: Mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy. Review of International Political Economy 30 (1), 201-228. [open access] | Link

2022

Babić, M., Dixon, A.D. (2022): Is the China Effect Real? Ideational Change and the Political Contestation of Chinese State-Led Investment in Europe. Chinese Journal of International Politics 15 (2), 111-139. [open access] | Link

Babić, M., Dixon, A.D., Fichtner, J. (2022): Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world? Competition & Change 27 (5), 663-684. [open access] | Link

Alami, I., Babić, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I. (2022): Special issue introduction: what is the new state capitalism? Contemporary Politics 28 (3), 245-263. [open access] | Link

Babić, M., Huijzer, J., Garcia-Bernardo, J., Valeeva, D. (2022): How does Business Power operate? A framework for its working mechanisms. Business and Politics 24 (2), 133-150. [open access] | Link

2021

Babić, M. (2021): The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order: Geopolitical Fissures and Pathways to Change. Global Perspectives 2 (1), 24051. Link | ungated version

Alami, I., Dixon, A.D., Gonzalez-Vicente, R., Babić, M., Lee, S., Medby, I.A., De Graaff, N. (2021): Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism. Geopolitics 27 (3), 995-1023. [open access] | Link

2020

Babić, M., Garcia-Bernardo, J., Heemskerk, E.M. (2020): The rise of transnational state capital: State-led foreign investment in the 21st century. Review of International Political Economy 27 (3), 433-475. [open access] | Link

Babić, M. (2020): Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order. International Affairs 96 (3), 767-786. [open access] | Link

2017

Babić, M., Fichtner, J., Heemskerk, E.M. (2017): States versus corporations: Rethinking the power of business in international politics. The International Spectator 52 (4), 20-43. [open access] | Link

Book Chapters

Ahler Christesen, C., Babić, M., (forthcoming): State-business relations in the green transition. In: Wilson, G. K. & M. Maguire (eds.): Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government. Edward Elgar.

Babić, M. (forthcoming): Geoeconomics. In: van Apeldoorn, B., de Graaff, N. (eds.): Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Edrward Elgar.

Babić, M., Fichtner, J., Heemskerk, E.M. (2025): Corporate Networks. In: Pevehouse, J.C.W., Seabrooke, L. (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy. Oxford University Press. Link

Babić, M., Dixon A.D., Liu, I. (2022): Geoeconomics in a changing global order. In: Babić, M., Dixon A.D., Liu, I. (eds.): The political economy of geoeconomics: Europe in a changing world. Palgrave Macmillan (International Political Economy Series). [open access] | Link

Babić, M., Dixon A.D., Liu, I. (2022): Moving forward: Understanding the geoeconomic decade of the 2020s. In: Babić, M., Dixon A.D., Liu, I. (eds.): The political economy of geoeconomics: Europe in a changing world. Palgrave Macmillan (International Political Economy Series). Link

Babić, M. (2019): Stabilisierung, Vertiefung und Konsolidierung der Economic Governance: Elitenstrategien in der europäischen Krise. In: Bieling, H.-J.; Guntrum, S. (eds.): Neue Segel, alter Kurs? Die Eurokrise und ihre Folgen für das europäische Wirtschaftsregieren. Springer VS. Link

Babić, M. (2015): Italien: Ohnmächtig in die permanente Krise?. In: Bieling, H.-J.; Buhr, D. (eds.): Europäische Welten in der Krise. Arbeitsbeziehungen und Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Vergleich. Campus. Link | ungated Version