Osama Iqbal

Research

Current project

Can a state make its own firms leave China?

My current project asks when a home state can compel its own firms to reduce their stake in China, and what follows at home when it cannot. It compares German and American firms in automotive, chemicals, software and semiconductors, and asks why the state won in some of these encounters and the firm in others.

Book

Inside the Geoeconomic Turn: Advanced Capitalism's Response to China

A book based on my dissertation. It explains why the United States, Germany and other advanced economies tightened their geoeconomic toolkits against China at different speeds and to different degrees, tracing the answer to the domestic coalitions behind each country's growth model.

Book proposal in preparation

Work in progress

Who Can Pull the Trigger? Growth Models and the Domestic Politics of Geoeconomic Statecraft

Sole author

Draft available on request

States versus States or States versus Firms under Weaponized Interdependence

Co-authored · on semiconductor firms under geopolitical conflict · presented at the Council for European Studies, 2023

Draft available on request

To Tariff or Not: Constructing Strategic Competence in the Electric Vehicle Transition

Sole author · presented at EPSA, Bologna, 2025

Draft available on request

Three papers accepted for panels at the SASE Annual Conference, 2026.