Publications

This is an overview of my academic and non-academic publications, as well as ongoing work. You can also view them on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal articles

Ergen, T., & Schmitz, L. (2025): Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union. Regulation & Governance. Paper.

Schmitz, L., Seidl, T. & Wuttke, T. (2025): The costs of conditionality. IPCEIs and the constrained politics of EU industrial policy. Competition & Change. Paper | online appendix.

Seidl, T., & Schmitz, L. (2024): Moving on not to fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy. Journal of European Public policy 31(8). Paper | replication materials.

Di Carlo, D., & Schmitz, L. (2023): Europe First? The rise of EU industrial policy promoting and protecting the single market. Journal of European Public Policy 30(10). Paper.

Schmitz, L., & Seidl, T. (2023): As open as possible, as Autonomous as Necessary: Understanding the Rise of Open Strategic Autonomy in EU Trade Policy. Journal of Common Market Studies 61(3). Paper.

Schmitz, L., & Eimer, T.R. (2020): From Coherence to Coheritization: explaining the rise of policy coherence in EU external policy. Globalizations 17(4). Paper.

Book chapters

(with Andrea K. Gerlak and colleagues): Power(ful) and Power(less): A Review of Power in the ESG–Agency Scholarship. In M. Betsill, T. Benney, & A. Gerlak (Eds.), Agency in Earth System Governance (pp. 65-72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter.

Working papers

Cova, J., & Schmitz, L. (2024): A primer for the use of classifier and generative large language models in social science research. OSF Preprint. Paper | replication materials.

Schmitz, L., Seidl, T. & Wuttke, T. (2024): The Costs of Conditionality. IPCEIs and the Constrained Politics of EU Industrial Policy. OSF preprint. Paper.

Ergen, T., & Schmitz, L (2023): The Sunshine Problem. Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union. MPIfG discussion paper 2023/6. Paper.

Schmitz, L., & Seidl, T. (2022): Protecting, Transforming, and Projecting the Single Market. Open Strategic Autonomy and Digital Sovereignty in the EU’s Trade and Digital Policies. OSF preprint. Paper.

Work in progress

Hierarchies of Adaptation: Corporate Power in Economic Statecraft. Under review.

The Return of Vertical Integration in Corporate Organization (with P. Gerbaudo & G.Anzolin). Manuscript in progress.

When External Pressures Shift Domestic Coalitions: Industrial Policy Change in the Netherlands (with J.Simons). Unpublished Manuscript (available upon request).

Extractive Integration under Strategic Autonomy: Ukraine and the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy (with D.Karas). Manuscript in progress.

Media & miscellaneous

Backlash. De Groene Amsterdammer. Interview.

De Europese markt heeft industriepolitiek op Europees niveau nodig. NRC Handelsblad (with Jasper H. van Dijk). Opinion piece (paywalled).

As open as Possible, as Autonomous as Necessary – Understanding the Rise of Open Strategic Autonomy. (with Timo Seidl). Ideas on Europe Blog entry.

Reflections on how COVID-19 is reshaping the EU’s industrial strategy. EUIdeas blog entry.