{"id":2,"date":"2025-05-20T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:02:58","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized coblocks-animate\" data-coblocks-animation=\"slideInLeft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59\" style=\"width:240px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/milanbabic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-pic_small_300dpi-scaled-1-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/about-the-uva\/organisation\/faculties\/faculty-of-social-and-behavioural-sciences\/organisation\/disciplines\/political-science.html?cb\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/about-the-uva\/organisation\/faculties\/faculty-of-social-and-behavioural-sciences\/organisation\/disciplines\/political-science.html?cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Political Science Department<\/a> and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/aissr.uva.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AISSR<\/a>) at the University of Amsterdam. There, I am Principal Investigator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/decarb-project.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/decarb-project.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DECARB project<\/a>, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and an 2024 Early Career Fellow at the Independent Social Research Foundation (<a href=\"https:\/\/isrf.org\/people\/milan-babic\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/isrf.org\/people\/milan-babic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ISRF<\/a>). I am also a co-founder and organizer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sase.org\/networks\/v-geoeconomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geoeconomics Network<\/a> at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (<a href=\"https:\/\/sase.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SASE<\/a>). From 2026-2029, I am an Editor at the Review of International Political Economy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/journals\/rrip20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RIPE<\/a>). Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy at <a href=\"https:\/\/ruc.dk\/en\/department-social-sciences-and-business\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ruc.dk\/en\/department-social-sciences-and-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roskilde University<\/a>, a Postdoc at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/nl\/education\/exchange\/fasos\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/nl\/education\/exchange\/fasos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maastricht University<\/a> and I received my PhD from the University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research and teaching deal with the question of how the global economy moves into a post-neoliberal global order. And what this shift means for governments, institutions and other collective actors shaping and being shaped by these transformations. I have two empirical foci:  the climate crisis and geoeconomic competition. Both are key to understanding how various actors position themselves in these transformations. In both domains, the guiding analytical and normative rationale of my research is, as Susan Strange put it: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.nl\/books?id=YkjtEOM5LbkC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;hl=nl#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/books.google.nl\/books?id=YkjtEOM5LbkC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;hl=nl#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cui bono<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to know more, check out the publications and projects tabs. If you want to get in touch, please use the information on the contact page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Political Science Department and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. 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