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In just a few years, investment screening has shifted from a niche regulatory tool to a central instrument in the global geoeconomic contest. Governments across advanced economies are drawing new red lines around foreign acquisitions in strategic sectors such as energy, technology, and infrastructure.

What happens when national security collides with economic openness? And how might these choices reshape the very rules of globalization?

This talk explores the political consequences of investment screening:

• How states use it to safeguard strategic sectors
• The risks of politicization and capture
• The impact on future cross-border investment and geoeconomic rivalry

Join us to explore how new investment rules are rewriting the future of globalization with a presentation from Sophie Meunier. 

Guri Rosén (Associate Professor, University of Oslo) will comment on Meunier's presentation.

The seminar is held at NUPI, and will also be streamed live to NUPI's YouTube channel. No registration needed for digital participation.

About Sophie Meunier:

Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She is Director of the EU Program at Princeton, former Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (2022-2024), and former Acting Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (2023-2024). She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award. She is also co-editor of several books on Europe and globalization, most recently Developments in French Politics 6 (Palgrave MacMillan 2020) and Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance? (Routledge, 2015). Meunier is the former Chair of the European Union Studies Association (2023-2024). Her current work deals with the politics of investment screening mechanisms and the European Union's recent geoeconomic turn. She was made Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.

Participants

Sophie Meunier

Senior Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Guri Rosén

Associate Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo

Moderator

Pernille Rieker

Research Professor (part time)

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• Regional integration
• Foreign policy
• Europe
• Pandemics
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