Doctoral programme "De-Globalisation and Global Decoupling" (DeGlobE)

PhD projects in this field can be, for example, address the external dimension of the EU Green Deal, fair energy and industrial partnerships, or resource-based development through Critical Transition Materials (CTMs).

PhD projects in this field can be, for example, investigate the mobilisation of supply chain law, co-determination and supply chain law or the management of supply chain risk in companies.

PhD projects in this subject area should primarily address the topic of ‘economic intelligence’, which examines the strategic use of intelligence services in the global economy; or the question of how state security actors are linked to value creation processes.

The dissertation projects in this field focus on this connection between de-globalisation and financial market practices. They reconstruct the emerging regionalisation of financial infrastructures. The projects see themselves as a link between the existing financialisation literature and the new discussion on infrastructures (Bueger et al. 2023; De Goede and Westermeier 2022) in order to identify the changing constellation of private and public actors, the reinterpretation of 'critical' or 'strategic' infrastructures and the new opportunities for state actors to shape them. All three proposed dissertation projects focus on different aspects of the global financial markets (payment processing, investments, export financing) in order to read the new constellations along these two dimensions (private/public; state/market) and jointly analyse them for structural elements, in the sense of Susan Strange's structural power (Strange 2015).