Geopolitics has re-entered the core of international business decision-making with unprecedented force. Trade conflicts, sanctions regimes, industrial policy, supply-chain fragmentation, technological sovereignty, and military tensions have fundamentally altered the global operating environment for firms.
The assumption of a stable, steadily globalizing, rules-based economic order is under strain. Yet the future trajectory of the global system remains uncertain. Rule-based institutions persist, even as strategic rivalry, power competition, and economic statecraft intensify. For firms, geopolitics is no longer a background variable. It has become an enduring and constitutive dimension of strategic decision-making.

This edited volume examines how companies navigate this transformation—particularly from a European perspective, where strong regulatory frameworks, sustainability commitments, and human-rights obligations intersect with global power dynamics.

We invite contributions that analyze firms as both recipients and actors of geopolitical forces. The volume is particularly interested in:
•    Geopolitics as a structural and strategic condition of international business
•    Geopolitical literacy as a managerial and organizational capability
•    Historical path dependence and institutional memory in geopolitical strategy
•    Political risk and opportunity under uncertainty and ambiguity
•    Regulation, sanctions, and economic statecraft
•    Governance and board-level decision-making under geopolitical pressure
•    Strategic foresight, scenario planning, and wargaming
•    Europe’s evolving role between major power blocs
•    Trade diversification, strategic autonomy, and new partnerships
•    Empirical company cases grounded in real-world data

We particularly encourage submissions based on comparative analysis, case studies, or empirical research. Interested authors are invited to submit a 2-page extended proposal outlining:

•    Research question and relevance
•    Theoretical positioning
•    Methodological approach
•    Empirical or case-based foundation
•    Explicit engagement with the volume’s framework

Selected proposals will be invited to develop full chapters.
The volume addresses scholars in international business, strategy, and political economy; policymakers and diplomats; and executives responsible for strategy, governance, and risk management in internationally active firms.