Journal: Politics and Governance
Year: 2023

Facing recent global disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, climate change, and the race for raw materials and technology needed for the green transition, economic interdependence-not least unilateral dependence-has increasingly come to be seen as a security threat.In response, the EU has put resilience and strategic autonomy at the centre of its trade and investment agenda.The EU was long resistant to this geoeconomic turn, that is, the use of economic tools for