Milan Babić

Global Political Economy and Climate Politics

Publications

Books

Babic, M. (2023). The Rise of State Capital: Transforming Markets and International Politics. Agenda Publishing & Columbia University Press. Link (UK/Europe) | Link (US) | Review in ERIS (open access).

Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I. (eds.) (2022). The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Palgrave (International Political Economy Series). Link.

Papers (peer-reviewed)

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

2023
  • Ylönen, M., Raudla, R. & Babic, M. (2023). From tax havens to cryptocurrencies: Secrecy-seeking capital in the global economy. Review of International Political Economy (online first). [open access]. Link | Data
  • Babic, M., Dixon A.D. (2023). Decarbonising states as owners. New Political Economy 28 (4), 608-627. Link [open access] |Data
  • Babic, M., Sharma, S.E. (2023). Mobilising Critical International Political Economy for the Age of Climate Breakdown. New Political Economy 28 (5), 758-779. Link [open access]
  • Babic, 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. Link [open access] | Data

2022
  • Babic, M., Dixon, A.D. & Fichtner, J. (2022). Varieties of state capital: What does foreign state-led investment do in a globalized world? Competition and Change (online first). Link [open access]
  • Babic, 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. Link [open access] | Meta-data
  • Alami, I., Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., & Liu, I. (2022). What is the New State Capitalism? Contemporary Politics 28 (3), 245-263. Link [open access]
  • Babic, 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. Link [open access]

2021
  • Babic, M. (2021). Covid-19 and the crisis of the Liberal International Order: Geopolitical fissures and pathways to change. Global Perspectives 2 (1), 24051. Link | [Link to file]
  • Babic, M. (2021). Beyond geopolitics? The value of systemic approaches to the ‘new’ state capitalism. Geopolitics 27 (3), 1003-1007. Link [open access]
    • Part of Forum on “Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism”, with Ilias Alami, Adam Dixon, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Seung-Ook Lee, Ingrid Medby, Naná de Graaff.

2020
  • Babic, M. (2020). Let’s talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the Liberal World Order. International Affairs 96 (3), 767–786. Link [open access]
  • Babic, 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. Link [open access] | Data

2017
  • Babic, 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. Link. [open access]

Edited Special Issues

  • Alami, I., Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I. (2022). Critical Reflections on the ‘New’ State Capitalism. Contemporary Politics. Link.

Book Chapters

  • Babic, M., Fichtner, J., Heemskerk, E.M. (2022). Corporate Networks. In Pevehouse, J.C.W., and Seabrooke, L. (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy. Oxford University Press. Link | [Link to preprint].
  • Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I. (2022). Moving forward: Understanding the geoeconomic decade of the 2020s. In Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., and Liu, I. (eds.): The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Palgrave (International Political Economy Series). Link.
  • Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I. (2022). Geoeconomics in a changing global order. In Babic, M., Dixon, A.D., and Liu, I. (eds.): The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Palgrave (International Political Economy Series). Link.
  • Babic, M. (2019). Stabilisierung, Vertiefung und Konsolidierung der Economic Governance: Elitenstrategien in der europäischen Krise. In: Bieling, H.-J. and Guntrum, S. (eds.): Neue Segel, alter Kurs? Die Eurokrise und ihre Folgen für das europäische Wirtschaftsregieren. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 109-138. Link | Abstract in English | Data
  • Babic, M. (2015). Italien – Ohnmächtig in die permanente Krise? In: Bieling, H.-J. and Buhr, D. (eds.): Europäische Welten in der Krise. Arbeitsbeziehungen und Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Vergleich. Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag (Labour Studies, 11), pp. 137–164. Download here

Book Reviews

  • Babic, M. (2018). Actors, not Markets: Bringing Corporate Power back in International Studies. International Studies Review 21 (1), 175-176. Link.

Software

Others

  • Babic, M., Germann, J., Koddenbrock, K., Mertens, D. (2023). Unternehmensmacht und Geoökonomie: Die drei Arenen strategischer Koordination. Makronom. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2023). Der Staat ist mehr als nur Ordnungsmacht. transforming economies. Link.
  • Babic, M., Dixon A.D. (2023). What the Cosco affair told us about Germany’s relations with China. EUROPP – European Politics and Policy. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2022). State investment is playing an important role for the future of international politics. LSE Business Review. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2020). Forging new identities? The erosion of the social base of the liberal international order. International Affairs Blog (Rethinking IR Series). Link.
  • Babic, M. (2020). The liberal international order is in crisis. Here is how we can analyse it. Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Sidney. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2020). Why state capitalism isn’t primarily geopolitical. International Politics and Society. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2019). Why Globalization was Not the End of State Power. Global Policy Journal. Link.
  • Babic, M. (2019). Reclaiming the commons through state ownership? Maybe not. Open Democracy (Our Economy Series). Link.
  • Babic, M., Fichtner, J., & Heemskerk, E.M. (2018). Who is more powerful – States or Corporations? The Conversation UK. Link.