Which book published in 2026 has most changed how you understand the relationship between business and geopolitical power?
With year-end approaching, Helsinki Geoeconomics is inviting readers to help build a holiday reading list. We are looking for books that illuminate how geopolitics shapes business—and how businesses shape geopolitics.
We welcome recommendations that make these relationships clearer, bring unfamiliar perspectives into view or help readers exercise better judgement. The list should reach beyond any one discipline or type of book: journalism, history, biography, practical guides and rigorous scholarship all have a place.
What kinds of books?
Your nomination might be:
- A big-picture explanation of the changing global economic order.
- A practical guide to geopolitical judgement, business strategy or leadership.
- A corporate history or biography showing how businesses shape world affairs.
- Investigative reporting that follows money, materials or influence across borders.
- A book on sanctions, trade conflict or the law of economic security.
- An account of competition over chips, AI, data or digital infrastructure.
- A study of supply chains, energy, critical minerals or industrial capability.
- A book on financial power, currencies or cross-border investment.
- A regional perspective that challenges familiar accounts of global power.
- A fresh argument about business diplomacy and cooperation—not only confrontation.
These are starting points, not an exhaustive list. The book need not have “geopolitics” or “geoeconomics” in its title.
How to nominate
Choose a book first published in 2026 and available by 30 November. Use our short nomination form to tell us its title and author or editor, and explain in up to 100 words why it belongs on the list. A publisher link or ISBN is helpful but optional.
Nominate a book:
https://forms.geoeconomics.fi/reading-list-2026/
The form takes about two minutes. Please submit one book at a time; you may nominate more than one. Authors and publishers are welcome to recommend their own work—simply identify your connection to the book.
Nominations close on 30 November 2026.
We ask for your name and email so that we can follow up about your nomination and send you the completed reading list. Future email updates and permission to quote your recommendation with your name are separate, optional choices. Further details are in the nomination privacy notice:
https://forms.geoeconomics.fi/reading-list-2026/privacy.php
The David A. Baldwin Prize
Eligible books can also be nominated separately for the 2026 David A. Baldwin Prize in Geoeconomics. The Prize has its own publication window and submission requirements; recommending a book for this reading list does not submit it for the Prize.
Read the published Prize call and eligibility requirements:
https://www.geoeconomics.fi/communique-no-3-2026/
