OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	148
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	45
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	44
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	44
Correction	42
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	35
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	34
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	33
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations	32
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	32
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	31
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	30
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	30
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	30
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	29
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	28
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	25
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	21
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid	21
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	19
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	19
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	19
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	19
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	18
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	18

Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state	18
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	17
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	17
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	17
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	17
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	16
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	15
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	15
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	15
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	15
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	15
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	15
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	15
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	14
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	14
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	14
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	14
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	13
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	13
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	12
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	12
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	11
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	11
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	11
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	11
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America	10
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	10
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
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	9
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	9
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	9
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production	9
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	9
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	9
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	9
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	9
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	9
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	8
Green macrofinancial regimes	8
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement	8
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	8
Secular stagnation and climate change	8
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	8
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	8
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	8
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	7
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	7

States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	7
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	7
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	7
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	7
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	7
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	6
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics	6
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion	6
The color of money at the financial frontier	6
RIPE 2023 diversity statement	6
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory	6
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	6
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China	6
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations	6
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia	6
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities	6
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties	6
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard	6
Entangled chains of global value and wealth	6
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China	6
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy	6
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state	6
A network model of creditor coordination	5
Making Nairobi ‘open for business’: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier	5
The organizational ecology of the global space industry	5
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE	5
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’	5
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia	5
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia	5
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board	5
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations	5
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China	5
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security	5
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship	5
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan	5
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures	5
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes	5
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures	4
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories	4
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance	4
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets	4
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax	4
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres	4
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France	4
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022	4
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?	4
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–1984	4
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road	4
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability	4
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam	4
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research	4
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain	4
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law	4
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics	4
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone	4
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War	4
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards	4
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies	4
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization	4
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills	4
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice	4
RIPE 2022 diversity statement	4
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity	3
Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan	3
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements	3
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets	3
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO	3
Decolonizing the political economy of energy transitions: new energy spaces and pluriversal politics in Mexico	3
Pro-trade nationalists and protectionist xenophobes? The conditional effects of psychological factors on trade attitudes	3
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance	3
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements	3
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education	3
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China	3
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain	3
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation	3
Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy	3
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action	3
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming	3
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China	3
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda	3