“Open strategic autonomy” as an industrial policy compass for the EU competitiveness and growth: The good, the bad, or the ugly?
Journal: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
Year: 2024

Abstract This paper explores the potential of Open Strategic Autonomy to effectively foster industrial policies that boost EU competitiveness and growth. It investigates changes in the global economy and international order, with a focus on two key concepts: the "win-lose" reconfiguration of globalization and the resurgence of nations as "confrontational states," marked by interventionism, national sovereignty, techno-nationalism, and zero-sum thinking. Within this context, a "new industrial pol