Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2026 brought together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and emerging geoeconomists for five days of discussion on the structural changes reshaping the global economy and the practice of geoeconomics.
Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2026 marks the Society’s transition from institutional design to sustained common work, setting in motion the New Helsinki Process, Helsinki Geoeconomics School, and a wider editorial and institutional programme.
Critical minerals are now at the centre of the green transition, but their origin is often difficult to verify. Poor traceability creates opportunities for criminal groups to profit from the same supply chains.
Industrial policy has re-emerged as a central tool for policymakers and is increasingly justified in terms of national security. Beneath this securitised framing lies a more specific logic: state-led engineering of physical chokepoints.
Firms respond differently to geopolitical pressures: Chinese firms align with state priorities, US firms adapt to policy incentives, and Indonesian firms pursue upgrading.
Europe is efficient at starting deep-tech, quantum, and defence companies, but it struggles when these firms need to scale up. The reliance on US funds has become systemic.
Global capital is entering a new phase in which financial returns are no longer the sole determinant of investment decisions. Mexico provides a revealing case of this transformation.
The Hormuz crisis represents an ideal test of the latest research into the geoeconomics of global trade – as well as a source of insights for decision-makers in the business and policy spheres.
States are willing to subjugate business interests under the pretext of national security. Yet when the neutrality of straits are compromised, businesses and consumers bear the costs.
