Review of International Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of International Political Economy is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas79
The institutional design of joint bodies in trade agreements: monitoring commitments, facilitating negotiations, avoiding ratification67
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey66
Financial markets and mass political attitudes: evidence from the 2022 Brazilian election48
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements45
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization45
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter45
Correction44
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations43
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion38
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion36
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation34
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health32
Against inflation: queer-feminist monetary (and price) theory30
‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations30
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research29
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism29
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state27
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching26
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone25
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid24
Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies23
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism23
Why do countries adopt supply-side policies? The international political economy of fossil fuel phaseouts23
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex23
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds22
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies22
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana22
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right21
Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument21
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism21
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies21
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE21
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital21
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies: exploring global trends in academic dependency19
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking18
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework18
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom17
Enter the trade war? European public opinion on trade restrictions against China17
Sanction-busting shoppers: consumer ‘buycotts’ as defensive economic statecraft17
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities *16
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future16
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism15
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws15
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?15
Unequal mobilities as an investment strategy: esprit entrepreneurial , containment, and the spatial reconfigurations of racial capitalism15
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation14
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia14
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’13
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty13
The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization13
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions13
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise13
The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition12
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed12
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies12
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order12
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability12
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes12
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima12
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance12
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production11
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America11
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets11
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance11
Green macrofinancial regimes11
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems11
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement10
Secular stagnation and climate change10
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism10
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies10
Labor regimes, global conjunctures, and the restructuring of coal in Britain and Romania10
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies10
Economic nationalism as a quest for liberation: the anti-colonial roots of Indonesian IPE and their persistence10
RIPE 2024 diversity statement9
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements9
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation9
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance9
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric9
Making markets: supranational public borrowers and the promotion of international financial market integration9
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis9
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies9
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador8
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states8
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard8
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory8
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt8
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China8
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China8
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion8
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees8
Twilight of the oligarchs8
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics8
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties7
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities7
Making Nairobi ‘open for business’: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier7
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations7
Entangled chains of global value and wealth7
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia7
RIPE 2023 diversity statement7
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship7
A network model of creditor coordination7
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security6
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE6
Power from below: rethinking bargaining power in global value chains6
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy6
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state6
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China6
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations6
Making sense of memes: how to study distributed knowledge as lay economics6
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan6
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures6
The organizational ecology of the global space industry6
Toward an IPE of raced finance6
Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings6
Guarding economic interests abroad: FDI, political instability, and the proliferation of Chinese police training6
De/stabilizing capitalism in the Middle East? Infrastructure, uneven development and the humanitarian-development nexus in Jordan and Lebanon5
Do preferential trade agreements with labor clauses displace labor abuses? The unintended consequences of global governance on labor standards5
The political economy of advanced semi-peripherality: East-Central Europe’s (neo-)dependency in global comparative perspective5
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road5
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War5
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability5
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’5
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance5
Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond5
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards5
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research5
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board5
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets5
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes5
Revisiting business associations in trade politics: a large language model scaling approach5
The wartime care economy: insights from Ukraine5
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories5
Institutional layering as (counter-)hegemonic strategy: unpacking China’s global development initiative4
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics4
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–20224
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–19844
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax4
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice4
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization4
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education4
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies4
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?4
RIPE 2022 diversity statement4
Too political to delegate? Financial stability and the politics of depoliticization4
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France4
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone4
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures4
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain4
Specters of slavery in the global economy: rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London3
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming3
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China3
Calculated capital: the business logic behind Chinese lending in the Global South3
Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy3
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation3
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity3
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO3
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres3
Decolonizing the political economy of energy transitions: new energy spaces and pluriversal politics in Mexico3
The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam3
High-road or low-road? Europe’s EV battery rollout and the tradeoffs of green industrial policy in a geoeconomic world3
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action3
Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan3
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements3
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain3
The battle for plastic hegemony: the petrochemical historical bloc and the UN Global Plastics Treaty3
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets3
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements3
Do geopolitical interests affect how financial markets react to IMF programs?3
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance3
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