SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Julian Germann is an associate professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research examines the geo-economics of high-tech and resource competition in the context of ongoing geopolitical changes. Julian focuses on European Union and German strategies, including their efforts to secure critical raw materials for the digital and green transitions, as well as the defense industries. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto. He formerly directed the Sussex Centre for Global Political Economy and is a founding member of the Critical Minerals Observatory. He co-leads a research initiative with colleagues at the University of Sussex and King’s College London that leverages granular firm-level data to map power and dependence in global production networks.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Julian Germann is an associate professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research examines the geo-economics of high-tech and resource competition in the context of ongoing geopolitical changes. Julian focuses on European Union and German strategies, including their efforts to secure critical raw materials for the digital and green transitions, as well as the defense industries. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto. He formerly directed the Sussex Centre for Global Political Economy and is a founding member of the Critical Minerals Observatory. He co-leads a research initiative with colleagues at the University of Sussex and King’s College London that leverages granular firm-level data to map power and dependence in global production networks.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Julian Germann examines the interplay of public and private raw material strategies, focusing on the European Union’s new resource partnerships and European companies’ growing involvement in green extractivist activities in Latin America. His pilot study analyses German-Chilean corporate networks in critical minerals and green hydrogen sectors to determine whether these emerging relationships align with the mutual benefits promised in the EU-Chile Advanced Framework Agreement.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Germann, Julian, Steve Rolf, Joseph Baines, and Sean K. Starrs. (2024). “A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno-Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry”. Politics and Governance, 12: 1-19 VIEW PUBLICATION
Germann, Julian (2023) “Wrestling with Unevenness: Sino-American Rivalry, State Strategy, and the Reformation of German Capitalism”. Global Political Economy 2(1): 77-97. VIEW PUBLICATION
Germann, Julian. (2023). “Global Rivalries, Corporate Interests and Germany’s National Industrial Strategy 2030”. Review of International Political Economy 30(5): 1749-1775. VIEW PUBLICATION
Germann, Julian. (2021). Unwitting Architect: German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. VIEW PUBLICATION
Germann, Julian, and Sean K. Starrs. (2021). “Responding to the China Challenge in Techno- Nationalism: Divergence between Germany and the United States”. Development & Change 55(2): 1122-1146. VIEW PUBLICATION