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EU Sanctions and Investment Arbitration: An Attempt at Moving the Goalposts through Increased Securitisation?

After the Achmea and Komstroy sagas, marking the end of intra-European Union (EU) investor-state arbitration, the Union finds itself again at the centre of some investment arbitration drama. Sanctioned Russian investors are increasingly bringing arbitral…

27 May 2026

Supply Chain Secondary Sanctions: How China Weaponised Lithuania’s Trade Links

The growing entanglement of economic interdependence and geopolitical rivalry has given rise to new forms of economic coercion that extend well beyond traditional bilateral sanctions. States increasingly seek to exploit not just their direct trade…

20 May 2026

The Small Yard Problem: How America and Japan De-Risk from China

China’s rise and fears of weaponized interdependence are causing democracies to rethink the relationship between their trade policies and national security. Are semiconductors and rare earths important to national security? How about garlic imported from…

22 April 2026

Regulating Critical Minerals and Economic Security in South America: Brazil, Chile, and Argentina in Comparative Perspective

“Economic security” has quickly become a defining concept in G7 debates on critical minerals. But how does this agenda translate to major producers such as Brazil, Argentina, and Chile? The answer is: unevenly. In the G7, economic security is tied

27 March 2026

The State of Exception in EU Investment Law

This blog post is based on the author’s article ‘Investment Screening in the EU: From Liberalisation to the State of Exception’, published open access by The Journal of World Investment & Trade (advance online publication), available here. Security has become

4 March 2026

Can – and should – the EU align with US economic security policy?

Varg Folkman (Policy Analyst, the European Policy Centre) Back during Europe’s summer of discontent in 2025, it went somewhat overlooked – amidst the larger trade story – that the EU, in its Turnberry Deal with the United States, had promised

11 February 2026

Why Economic Security Depends on Bureaucracy: The Hidden Side of Derisking

We live in a time when globalisation, once considered irreversible, is showing visible signs of strain. Transnational crises – from pandemic disruptions to geopolitical rivalries – have revealed how fragile economic interdependence can be. In this context,…

21 January 2026

Proxies, Partners, or Opponents? Rethinking Business–Government Relations in Geoeconomic Competition

All articles in Law & Geoeconomics are available free of charge via Brill using the access token LGEO4U until 31 December 2026. More details are available at the L&G page here. Over the past decade, regulatory practices in Western economies

22 December 2025

Introducing: the CELIS-L&G Blogseries

Welcome, readers, to the inaugural blog post of a new collaboration between the academic journal Law & Geoeconomics (L&G) and the CELIS Institute. To set the tone, we decided to sit down with some of the guiding minds behind this

28 November 2025

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