The panel consequently conceptualizes a security–development nexus as a political-economic mechanism linking international pressures to domestic developmental outcomes. Research may examine how security concerns influence industrial policy, technology policy, public investment, fiscal capacity, innovation systems, foreign economic relations, or strategies of economic and technological autonomy. Particular attention is given to countries of the Global South and emerging market democracies, where states must simultaneously pursue development, manage external vulnerabilities, and navigate shifting structures of global power. This panel also would like to expand the substantive boundaries of IPE/CPE beyond its conventional focus on welfare, redistribution, trade, and growth. It highlights the developmental implications of geopolitical competition, weaponized interdependence, strategic technologies, defense-industrial linkages, international aid, foreign investment, technology transfer, and the securitization of economic relations.
The panel welcomes comparative, historical, and theoretically informed contributions addressing questions such as:
When does external security pressure stimulate rather than constrain economic development?
How do security threats alter governments’ incentives to build fiscal and state capacity?
Under what conditions does geopolitical rivalry generate industrial policy, technological upgrading, or innovation?
How do security concerns reshape domestic coalitions supporting developmental policies?
How do international security environments interact with domestic institutions to produce divergent development trajectories across Global South countries?
