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Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition

Patrick Bresnihan et al.

Journal of Labor and Society2025https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10195article
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Abstract This paper examines the relationship between ecomodernism and imperialism via the case of Ireland. Long a site of dependency within the Atlantic economy, Ireland is fast becoming a strategic, infrastructural frontier linking the US and Europe in the context of emerging geopolitical competition over the supply chains and resources required for technological development, and the EU’s ‘twin transition.’ The paper explores how infrastructural development across a number of spheres—data centres, transatlantic subsea cables and fossil fuel pipelines, offshore wind, and critical mineral extraction—is becoming increasingly securitised. Simultaneously, contestation over Irish neutrality has intensified as an internal comprador class and external state actors push Ireland to geopolitically align itself more closely with NATO and the EU military bloc. We contend that these developments amount to a militarisation of Ireland’s FDI-based economy, pursued by the state to secure Ireland’s semi-peripheral position within the capitalist world system.

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@article{patrick2025,
  title        = {{Militarising FDI: Geopolitical Ecology, Dependency, and Ireland’s Twin Transition}},
  author       = {Patrick Bresnihan et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Labor and Society},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10195},
}

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0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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