Research Group Security and Capitalism

What do we do?

The political debates surrounding "derisking", secondary sanctions, economic resilience and trade wars are placing geoeconomics prominently on the political and academic agenda. The research group uses the term security capitalism to refer to the increasing overlap between security and economics, thus linking the fields of security (Prof. Hoffmann), political economy (Prof. Kessler), law (Prof. Riegner) and public policy (Prof. Goldthau). The joint research interest focuses on the question of how security policy relates to capitalist value creation. Among other things, the aim is to better understand the close interaction between private sector and state actors in areas such as security apparatuses, the energy industry, global supply chains and financial markets, and to analyze their political motivations and effects.