Economic interdependence creates leverage where trade routes, financial networks, technologies and legal authority converge. Geoeconomics and International Legal (Dis)Order examines how law shapes that leverage and how governments, regulators and firms respond when familiar channels of commerce become contested.

The chapters move from maritime chokepoints and Greenland's Arctic power struggle to economic coercion, China's party-led order, investment screening for chips and AI, and the supervision of crypto-assets. They examine payment systems and distributed ledgers, special economic zones, the human costs of corporate lawfare, the European Union's trade autonomy and research security in the AUKUS states.

Across these cases, the volume asks how legal rules distribute power, when institutions can reduce vulnerability, and how attempts to secure one actor may shift risks onto others. It brings international legal and policy analysis to scholars, policymakers, legal advisers and practitioners working on economic security and geoeconomics.

Dan Hanqvist is Deputy Director of the Helsinki Geoeconomics School and Senior Adviser at Oak One, where he focuses on financial regulation and fund law. He has more than thirty years of experience as a legal adviser in London, Stockholm and Moscow, advising industry, financial institutions, governments and public bodies on finance, corporate transactions and public-law regulation, including sanctions, foreign investment, defence, energy, mining, commodities and dual-use products. He has served as a commander and staff officer in the Swedish Army. Hanqvist has published extensively for academic and professional audiences and lectures at Stockholm University and in professional education. He holds degrees from Lund, Edinburgh and Uppsala universities and has undertaken further studies at the Swedish Defence University and other Nordic institutions.

Jens Hillebrand Pohl is a leading expert in geolegal studies, focusing on the legal aspect of geoeconomics. His research examines economic lawfare, i.e., how legal and regulatory frameworks are leveraged as instruments of geopolitical and geoeconomic strategy. He explores the critical role of legal systems in national security, economic regulation, and the intersection of law and economic power. Jens is the Director of the Helsinki Geoeconomics School and co-founder of The Geoeconomics Society. Through his leadership and publications, he has shaped academic and practical discourse in geoeconomics. He has published extensively in the field, with over 30 articles and four edited volumes, including Weaponising Investments. Jens is also the co-founding Editorial Director and Chair of the Law & Geoeconomics Journal, published by De Gruyter Brill, and the founding series editor of Springer Studies in Law & Geoeconomics. Jens began his career as a practicing lawyer in New York, where he advised on high-profile legal matters, including the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, and, later, on the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism. He has lectured at leading universities in Europe, North America, and Asia, and has held adjunct professorships and other academic appointments at Maastricht University, United Nations University, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, and the World Trade Institute, among others. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Jens holds a Ph.D. in law from Maastricht University, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a Master’s degree in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics, with further degrees and studies at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University. He is a member of the bar in New York and an English and Irish-qualified solicitor.