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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	135
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	44
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	40
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	39
Correction	38
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	37
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	33
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	31
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations	30
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	29
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	28
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	28
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	28
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	26
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	25
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	24
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	24
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	24
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	24
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	21
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	21
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	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
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid	18

The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	18
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	17
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	17
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	17
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	16
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	15
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	15
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	14
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	14
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	14
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	14
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	13
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	13
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	12
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	12
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	12
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	12
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	12
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	11
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	11
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	10
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	10
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	10
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	10
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	10
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	10
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	9
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America	9
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	9
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	9
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	9
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	9
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	8
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	8
Green macrofinancial regimes	8
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production	8
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	8
Secular stagnation and climate change	7
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	7
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	7
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	7
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	7
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	7
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	7
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	6
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	6

Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America	6
Entangled chains of global value and wealth	6
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	6
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
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	6
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	6
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	6
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	6
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	6
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities	5
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship	5
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics	5
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory	5
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy	5
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia	5
RIPE 2023 diversity statement	5
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China	5
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia	5
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China	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 digital euro: a materialization of (in)security	5
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations	5
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard	5
The color of money at the financial frontier	5
On ‘blind spots’ in (international) political economy	5
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China	4
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia	4
The organizational ecology of the global space industry	4
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France	4
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–1984	4
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures	4
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research	4
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’	4
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance	4
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan	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
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures	4
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War	4
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies	4
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories	4
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road	4
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax	4
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations	4
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes	4
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board	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
The IMF as a global monitor: surveillance, information, and financial markets	4
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability	4
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards	4
RIPE 2022 diversity statement	4
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone	4
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets	4
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE	4
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres	3
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain	3
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice	3
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills	3
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain	3
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity	3
Oil and power: the effectiveness of state threats on markets	3
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements	3
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization	3
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?	3
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022	3
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education	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
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements	3
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming	3
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law	3
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China	3
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics	3
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China	3
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action	3
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets	3
The double movement in Africa: a Nkrumah-Polanyi analysis of free market fatigue in Ghana’s private sector	3
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda	3