OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Political Economy is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	134
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	43
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	42
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	39
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	37
Correction	37
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	36
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	32
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	31
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	29
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	28
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	28
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	28
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	27
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	26
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
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	24
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	23
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	23
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	21
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	20
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	20
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	19
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	19
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	17

Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	17
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	17
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	16
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	16
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	16
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	15
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	14
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	14
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	14
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	13
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	13
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	13
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	12
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	12
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	12
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	11
State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy	11
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	11
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	10
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	10
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	10
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	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	9
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	9
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	9
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	9
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	8
Green macrofinancial regimes	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	8
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	8
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	8
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	8
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	8
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	8
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
Secular stagnation and climate change	7
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	7
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	7
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	7
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	7
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	6
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	6
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	6
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
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	6
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	6
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	6
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	6