OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Political Economy is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	79
The institutional design of joint bodies in trade agreements: monitoring commitments, facilitating negotiations, avoiding ratification	67
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	66
Financial markets and mass political attitudes: evidence from the 2022 Brazilian election	48
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	45
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	45
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	45
Correction	44
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations	43
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	38
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	36
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	34
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	32
Against inflation: queer-feminist monetary (and price) theory	30
‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations	30
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	29
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	29
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state	27
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	26
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	25
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid	24
Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies	23
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	23
Why do countries adopt supply-side policies? The international political economy of fossil fuel phaseouts	23
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	23

Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	22
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	22
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	22
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	21
Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument	21
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	21
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	21
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	21
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	21
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies: exploring global trends in academic dependency	19
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	18
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	18
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	17
Enter the trade war? European public opinion on trade restrictions against China	17
Sanction-busting shoppers: consumer ‘buycotts’ as defensive economic statecraft	17
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 future	16
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	15
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	15
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 capitalism	15
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	14
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	14
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 organizations	13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	13
The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization	13
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	13
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	13
The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition	12
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	12
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	12
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order	12
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	12
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	12
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	12
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	12
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production	11
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America	11
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	11
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	11
Green macrofinancial regimes	11
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	11
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement	10
Secular stagnation and climate change	10
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	10
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	10
Labor regimes, global conjunctures, and the restructuring of coal in Britain and Romania	10
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	10
Economic nationalism as a quest for liberation: the anti-colonial roots of Indonesian IPE and their persistence	10

RIPE 2024 diversity statement	9
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	9
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	9
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	9
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	9
Making markets: supranational public borrowers and the promotion of international financial market integration	9
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	9
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	9
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	8
Twilight of the oligarchs	8
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics	8
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	8
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard	8
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	8
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory	8
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China	8
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China	8
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion	8
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	8