The Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics is proud to announce a forthcoming special issue of the journal Geopolitics titled “Imagining Space in the Politics of Trade”. The special issue emerges from the Network’s work in Thematic Area 3 on the Reconfiguration of Transatlantic Trade after Brexit. The editors are Özlem Atikcan, Achim Hurrelmann, and Gabriel Siles-Brügge.
The special issue examines trade through the lens of spatial politics. It argues that trade is not just about economics, but also about how a polity places and legitimizes itself in a geopolitical setting. Focusing on the European Union and the United Kingdom, the contributors examine how trade agreements, as well as political contestation about them, construct spatial imaginaries that define geopolitical boundaries, connections, identities and hierarchies.
The first four articles of the special issue are now available:
Forest, Benjamin, Juliet Johnson, and Zarlasht M. Razeq (2024) Territory, Place, Flow, and Scale: Spatial Analysis in the IPE of Trade. Geopolitics, Early View, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2355208.
Richardson, Benjamin (2024) Labour Provisions in UK Trade Policy: Mapping the Spatial Politics of the Trade-Labour Linkage. Geopolitics, Early View, https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2373123.
Escalante Block, Elena (2024) Trade, Politics, and Patronising Otherness: Analysing the EU’s Moral Authority in EU-Trade Agreements. Geopolitics, Early View, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2024.2411330.
Garcia, Maria (2024) Transcending Geography: The United Kingdom’s Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership. Geopolitics, Early View, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2024.2411339.
The European Commission’s support for these publications does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
