Reframing globalization: the rise of supply chain diplomacy

Yuko Aoyama

Chapter 6 in A Research Agenda for Economic Geography, 2025, pp 77-90 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Deglobalization is viewed as a direct challenge to the prevailing liberal international order, with the latter functioning in conjunction with democracy, economic interdependence, and international institutions. In this chapter, I illustrate various paradigms that emerged in the literature on globalization and discuss how it is being reframed in the new contexts of potential deglobalization, as shaped by great power competition, economic coercions, regulatory supply chain controls, and the rise of trading blocs. In particular, I demonstrate how the discourse of globalization has long been shaped by and for the hegemonic powers, and deglobalization signals the need to develop a decentered paradigm, one by the “rest-of-the-world, non-dominant, yet networked states. These states are increasingly engaged in “supply chain diplomacy,” negotiating bilateral agreements, engaging in friend-shoring, and seeking to temper the effects of economic coercions exercised by the hegemons. An intersection of the economy-security nexus and the economy-society nexus is explored, with respect to the adverse impacts of globalization in the form of rising populism. The chapter ends with a research agenda for economic geographers to develop a stronger analytical framework to better understanding state-market relations.

Keywords: Globalization; Deglobalization; Weaponized interdependence; Supply chain diplomacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339914
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