OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Political Economy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	90
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	71
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?	57
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	52
Environmental issue linkage as an electoral advantage: the case of NAFTA	43
How business challenges climate transformation: an exploration of just transition and industry associations in Australia	38
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	34
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	31
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	31
Correction	30
Taking back control: comprador bankers and managerial developmentalism in Poland	30
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	29
Securing the separation between state and finance: entanglements between securitization and societal differentiation	28
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	27
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	25
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	25
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	24
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	23
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	22
Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry	20
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	19
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	18
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	18
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	18
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	18

When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	17
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction	16
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	15
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	15
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	14
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	14
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	14
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	14
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	13
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	13
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	13
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	13
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	12
State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy	12
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	12
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	12
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	11
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	11
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	10
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	10
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	10
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	9
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	9
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	9
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	9
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	8
The reregulation of capital flows in Latin America: assessing the impact of post-neoliberal governments	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	8
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	8
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	7
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	7
Green macrofinancial regimes	7
No separate spheres: the contingent reproduction of living labor in Southern Africa	7
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	7
Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE	7
Do choke points provide workers in logistics with power? A critique of the power resources approach in light of the 2018 truckers’ strike in Brazil	7
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	6
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	6
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	6
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	6
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	6
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	6
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	6
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	6
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	6
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	5
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia	5

Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America	5
One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity	5
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China	5
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	5
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard	5
Entangled chains of global value and wealth	5
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China	4
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations	4
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship	4
On ‘blind spots’ in (international) political economy	4
The dual transformation in development finance: western multilateral development banks and China in post-Soviet energy	4
The organizational ecology of the global space industry	4
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE	4
The color of money at the financial frontier	4
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan	4
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security	4
RIPE 2023 diversity statement	4
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board	4
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations	4
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory	4
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities	4
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy	4
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia	4
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state	4
Correction	4
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia	4
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’	3
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam	3
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance	3
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets	3
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education	3
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China	3
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies	3
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War	3
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability	3
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone	3
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research	3
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law	3
In the club: how and why central bankers created a hierarchy of sovereign borrowers, c. 1988–2007	3
RIPE 2022 diversity statement	3
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road	3
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes	3
The IMF as a global monitor: surveillance, information, and financial markets	3
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax	3
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards	3
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice	3
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures	3
Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan	2
Pro-trade nationalists and protectionist xenophobes? The conditional effects of psychological factors on trade attitudes	2
The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam	2
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation	2
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming	2
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain	2
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action	2
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?	2
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills	2
Oil and power: the effectiveness of state threats on markets	2
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland	2
Do geopolitical interests affect how financial markets react to IMF programs?	2
Excluding through inclusion: managerial practices in the era of multistakeholder governance	2
Moribund: exploring the relationship between foreign direct investment and indigenous language erosion in Latin America	2
Environmentalism among poor and rich countries: using natural language processing to handle perfunctory support and rising powers	2
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China	2
Decolonizing the political economy of energy transitions: new energy spaces and pluriversal politics in Mexico	2
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics	2
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022	2
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda	2
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements	2
From social protection to ‘progressive neoliberalism’: writing the Left into the rise and resilience of neoliberal policies (1968–2019)	2
Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy	2
The marketisation of life: entangling social reproduction theory and regimes of patriarchy through women’s work in post-Soviet Uzbekistan	2
Can domestic non-deliverable forwards replace the sale of international reserves? An analysis of the Brazilian experience	2
The double movement in Africa: a Nkrumah-Polanyi analysis of free market fatigue in Ghana’s private sector	2
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements	2
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres	2
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France	2
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization	2
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO	2