Journal of Geoeconomics Launches Case Study Series on China's Economic Coercion

The Journal of Geoeconomics is pleased to announce the launch of its Case Study Series, beginning with a thematic series on China's economic coercion. 

These cases examine how economic pressure has been used, signalled, mediated, and resisted across different countries, sectors, and political contexts. They are intended to be useful both to researchers studying patterns of state behaviour and to policy practitioners seeking to understand the instruments, actors, timelines, and impacts involved in contemporary geoeconomic competition.

The Case Study Series forms part of the Journal’s broader commitment to advancing empirical research and analysis in geoeconomics. As the field continues to develop, scholars and practitioners require more systematic ways to identify, compare, and analyse discrete episodes of geoeconomic statecraft. Yet many geoeconomic incidents remain dispersed across policy reports, books, media accounts, government statements, and academic research, with no single recognised repository for the field.

The Journal addresses this gap by providing concise, peer-reviewed, and accessible accounts of significant geoeconomic episodes. Each case study is designed to contribute to a growing empirical record that can support theory development, comparative analysis, policy reflection, and applied research. While individual case studies may vary in emphasis and approach, the format is designed around common analytical elements, including the relevant timeline, principal actors, measures used, observed impacts, and broader significance of the case. Over time, the Journal intends to further develop this format and expand the case-study repository across additional areas of geoeconomic practice. These may include coercive measures (e.g. financial sanctions, export controls, investment restrictions, informal sanctions, supply-chain disruptions) as well as inducements (e.g. tied investments, preferential loans, preferential market access, non-market pricing) and other instruments of economic statecraft used by states across different regions, levels of capacity, and positions within the international system.

The Journal welcomes ongoing submissions to the Case Study Series and will issue further thematic calls as part of its ongoing effort to build a structured repository of empirical material for the study of geoeconomics.