Osama Iqbal
I am a political economist based in Berlin. I study how advanced capitalist states have responded to China's rise, and what the geoeconomic turn means for the firms caught in between.
PhD, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies / University of Cologne (magna cum laude, 2025). Formerly Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.
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- Three papers accepted for panels at the SASE Annual Conference.
- Doctorate passed magna cum laude, University of Cologne / MPIfG.
- “To Tariff or Not” presented at EPSA, Bologna; panel chair at the Helsinki Geoeconomics Forum.
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I write Sovereigns & Capitals on China's political economy, geoeconomics and the Global South. Recent pieces include “Who Wanted What in Beijing” and “The Hardware Wall”.