Milan Babić

Global Political Economy and Climate Politics

New publication in Geopolitics

Just out: I contributed to a Geopolitics forum on the geopolitics of the ‘new’ state capitalism, edited by Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon. The article ‘Beyond Geopolitics? the Value of Systemic Approaches to the ‘New’ State Capitalism’, along with the other great contributions, is open access and available via this link.

New article on Covid-19 and the liberal order

Just published: “The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order: Geopolitical Fissures and Pathways to Change” in Global Perspectives. See Publications tab for more. The article is part of a special section on the pandemic: check out the other great papers in this collection here.

Section on geoeconomics @ECPR general conference 2021, Innsbruck

The submissions for our ECPR 2021 general conference section on “A New Age of Ambition: Geoeconomics and Geopolitical Competition in the Globalised World Economy” are now open. The conference will take place in Innsbruck on August 31 – September 3, 2021. We welcome paper and panel proposals from a broad range of perspectives that engage

SASE mini-conference on state capitalism post-Covid 2021 @Amsterdam

The submissions for our mini-conference on “State Capitalism and State-led Development before and after Covid: New pathways and challenges” at SASE 2021 are now open. The conference will take place in Amsterdam on July 3-5, 2021. We welcome paper and panel proposals from a broad range of perspectives that engage with the call and the

Guest talk @EUI on structural power

This Thursday I’ll join the Political Economy Working Group at the EUI Florence to give a talk on “How does structural power operate? A framework for its working mechanisms”. For more information and the possibility to join please see here.

Roundtable on the future of globalization @ St. Andrews

This Wednesday, I’ll join a roundtable with the fantastic Taylor St John, Folashadé Soulé and Geoffrey Gertz on the topic “Will Globalization be different after Coronavirus?” at the Centre for Global Law and Governance, U. of St. Andrews. If you want to join, see here.

Panel on IPE and Covid-19 @Uni Groningen

On Friday, 02.10. I will join a panel with the title ” The Covid-19 Pandemic: Continuity and Change in the International Political Economy”, where I will discuss one of the contributions. If you are interested, please join (it is for free). More information: https://www.rug.nl/research/globalisation-studies-groningen/news/2020/20200918-online-panel-session-on-the-covid-19-pandemic.

Mini-conference on state capitalism @SASE

Join our SASE mini-conference on “State Capitalism and State-led Development in the 21st century: China and Beyond” starting this weekend. The whole program can be found here. The mini-conference covers a variety of themes related to the rise of state capitalism and state-led development forms in the past two decades. We have a number of

New International Affairs blogpost online

A new blogpost I wrote for the International Affairs Blog Rethinking IR Series is now online: here. The paper on which this is based can be found here.

New PPE blogpost online

For the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) blog, I summarized some of the key findings of an earlier published piece of mine in International Affairs. You can read it here. The original paper can be found here.