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My research agenda is motivated by an enduring question in International Political Economy (IPE): how does economic integration affect the political power and economic wellbeing of ordinary people? I focus on three questions:
I approach these questions through four related areas: the politics of foreign direct investment, global financial networks and the politics of economic crisis, the politics of transnational business-political connections, and the nexus of national security and foreign investment. My work on financial networks is foundational to the totality of my research insofar as the concept of networks underpins all of my scholarly output, even when the network is operating beneath the surface.
Peer-Reviewed Books
2019. Bauerle Danzman, Sarah. Merging Interests: When Domestic Firms Shape FDI Policy Cambridge University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
2025. “Securitized Political Economy.” European Journal of International Relations. forthcoming.
2025. “Competing to Lose: FDI, Investment Incentives, and Taxation Capacity under Fiscal Federalism” (with Alexander Slaski) Business and Politics. forthcoming.
2025. “A Tool is Not a Strategy: Technology Security Amidst Contested Global Orders”Journal of International Economic Law. jgaf019, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgaf019
2024. “Outbound investment control: A new security tool for the European Union?” (with Sophie Meunier) Columbia FDI Perspectives. No. 398 December 9.
2024. “The EU’s Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator” (with Sophie Meunier) Journal of Common Market Studies. 62(4): 1097-1115.
2023. “Naïve No More: Foreign Direct Investment Screening in the European Union” (with Sophie Meunier) Global Policy. 14: 40-53.
Recognized as one of the top 10 most cited Global Policy articles published in 2023.
2023. "If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: The Rise of Investment Screening in Europe in Comparative Perspective." (with Sophie Meunier) Revue des Affairs Européennes. 4: 649-659.
2023. “Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset” (with Sophie Meunier) International Studies Quarterly. 67(2) https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad026
2022. “Explaining Deference: Why and When do Policymakers think FDI needs Tax Incentives?” (with Alexander Slaski) Review of International Political Economy. 29(4):
1085-1111. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1885475
2022. “Incentivizing Embedded Investment: Evidence from Patterns of Foreign Direct
Investment in Latin America” (with Alexander Slaski) Review of International Organizations. 17(1):63-87.
2020. “Foreign Direct Investment Policy, Domestic Firms, and Financial Constraints.” Business and Politics. 22(2): 279–306. doi:10.1017/bap.2019.13
2017. “All Crises are Global: Capital Cycles in an Imbalanced International Political Economy.” (with Thomas Oatley and William Kindred Winecoff) International Studies Quarterly. 61(4): 907–923.
2016. “Contracting with Whom? The Differential Effects of BITs on Mitigating Sources of Investment Risk.” International Interactions 42(3): 432–478.
2013. Oatley, Thomas, William Kindred Winecoff, Sarah Bauerle Danzman, and Andrew
Pennock. “The Political Economy of Global Finance: A Network Model” Perspectives
on Politics 11(1): 131–151.
Book Chapters
2023. “Balancing Risks: Investment Screening Mechanisms, Essential Security Definitions, and Standards of Evidence” (with Gabriella Couloubaritsis) in Weaponising Investments: Volume 1, edited by Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Joanna Warchol, Thomas Papadopoulos, and Janosch Wiesenthal. Springer Studies in Law and Geoeconomics, pp. 1-16.
2022. “Is FDI at a Critical Juncture? Contemplating a Post-COVID Investment Environment” in Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2020, edited by Lisa Laches, Lise Johnson, and Jesse Coleman. Oxford University Press, pp. 5-18.
2021. “Investment Screening in the Shadow of Weaponized Interdependence” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence, edited by Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, pp. 257-272.
2020. “Facilitating Sustainable Investment: The Role and Limits of Investment Promotion Agencies.” (with Geoffrey Gertz) in International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals edited by Cosimo Beverelli, Jurgen Kurtz, and Damian Raess. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-174.
2019. “The Political Economy of Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Conditional Effects of BITs on FDI Flows and Domestic Politics.” in Research Handbook on Foreign Direct Investment, edited by Markus Krajewski. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 11-38.
Business Cases
2022. Friedman, Jeremy, Sarah Bauerle Danzman, David Lane. TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty? HBS No. N9-722-020. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
Book Reviews
2021. “Introduction: Integrating Extractive Resource Politics into Broader International Political Economy.” Review Symposium of Power Grab: Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization (Cambridge University Press) by Paasha Mahdavi. Texas National Security Review.
My research agenda is motivated by an enduring question in International Political Economy (IPE): how does economic integration affect the political power and economic wellbeing of ordinary people? I focus on three questions:
- How do international financial activities influence domestic political processes and outcomes?
- How do politics affect patterns of foreign investment and related activities?
- How do these international and domestic political forces interact?
I approach these questions through four related areas: the politics of foreign direct investment, global financial networks and the politics of economic crisis, the politics of transnational business-political connections, and the nexus of national security and foreign investment. My work on financial networks is foundational to the totality of my research insofar as the concept of networks underpins all of my scholarly output, even when the network is operating beneath the surface.
Peer-Reviewed Books
2019. Bauerle Danzman, Sarah. Merging Interests: When Domestic Firms Shape FDI Policy Cambridge University Press.
- Reviewed in Perspective on Politics
- Book Panel at 2022 APSA – Discussants included Jeffry Frieden, Erica Owen &Patrick Egan
Refereed Journal Articles
2025. “Securitized Political Economy.” European Journal of International Relations. forthcoming.
2025. “Competing to Lose: FDI, Investment Incentives, and Taxation Capacity under Fiscal Federalism” (with Alexander Slaski) Business and Politics. forthcoming.
2025. “A Tool is Not a Strategy: Technology Security Amidst Contested Global Orders”Journal of International Economic Law. jgaf019, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgaf019
2024. “Outbound investment control: A new security tool for the European Union?” (with Sophie Meunier) Columbia FDI Perspectives. No. 398 December 9.
2024. “The EU’s Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator” (with Sophie Meunier) Journal of Common Market Studies. 62(4): 1097-1115.
2023. “Naïve No More: Foreign Direct Investment Screening in the European Union” (with Sophie Meunier) Global Policy. 14: 40-53.
Recognized as one of the top 10 most cited Global Policy articles published in 2023.
2023. "If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: The Rise of Investment Screening in Europe in Comparative Perspective." (with Sophie Meunier) Revue des Affairs Européennes. 4: 649-659.
2023. “Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset” (with Sophie Meunier) International Studies Quarterly. 67(2) https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad026
2022. “Explaining Deference: Why and When do Policymakers think FDI needs Tax Incentives?” (with Alexander Slaski) Review of International Political Economy. 29(4):
1085-1111. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1885475
2022. “Incentivizing Embedded Investment: Evidence from Patterns of Foreign Direct
Investment in Latin America” (with Alexander Slaski) Review of International Organizations. 17(1):63-87.
2020. “Foreign Direct Investment Policy, Domestic Firms, and Financial Constraints.” Business and Politics. 22(2): 279–306. doi:10.1017/bap.2019.13
- Winner of the 2020 David P. Baron Award for the best article published in Business and Politics in 2020
2017. “All Crises are Global: Capital Cycles in an Imbalanced International Political Economy.” (with Thomas Oatley and William Kindred Winecoff) International Studies Quarterly. 61(4): 907–923.
2016. “Contracting with Whom? The Differential Effects of BITs on Mitigating Sources of Investment Risk.” International Interactions 42(3): 432–478.
2013. Oatley, Thomas, William Kindred Winecoff, Sarah Bauerle Danzman, and Andrew
Pennock. “The Political Economy of Global Finance: A Network Model” Perspectives
on Politics 11(1): 131–151.
Book Chapters
2023. “Balancing Risks: Investment Screening Mechanisms, Essential Security Definitions, and Standards of Evidence” (with Gabriella Couloubaritsis) in Weaponising Investments: Volume 1, edited by Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Joanna Warchol, Thomas Papadopoulos, and Janosch Wiesenthal. Springer Studies in Law and Geoeconomics, pp. 1-16.
2022. “Is FDI at a Critical Juncture? Contemplating a Post-COVID Investment Environment” in Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2020, edited by Lisa Laches, Lise Johnson, and Jesse Coleman. Oxford University Press, pp. 5-18.
2021. “Investment Screening in the Shadow of Weaponized Interdependence” in The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence, edited by Daniel Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman. Washington, D.C.: Brookings, pp. 257-272.
2020. “Facilitating Sustainable Investment: The Role and Limits of Investment Promotion Agencies.” (with Geoffrey Gertz) in International Trade, Investment, and the Sustainable Development Goals edited by Cosimo Beverelli, Jurgen Kurtz, and Damian Raess. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 140-174.
2019. “The Political Economy of Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Conditional Effects of BITs on FDI Flows and Domestic Politics.” in Research Handbook on Foreign Direct Investment, edited by Markus Krajewski. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 11-38.
Business Cases
2022. Friedman, Jeremy, Sarah Bauerle Danzman, David Lane. TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty? HBS No. N9-722-020. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing.
Book Reviews
2021. “Introduction: Integrating Extractive Resource Politics into Broader International Political Economy.” Review Symposium of Power Grab: Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization (Cambridge University Press) by Paasha Mahdavi. Texas National Security Review.
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