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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	168
The institutional design of joint bodies in trade agreements: monitoring commitments, facilitating negotiations, avoiding ratification	59
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	58
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	58
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	56
Against inflation: queer-feminist monetary (and price) theory	44
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	42
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	41
Correction	40
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	40
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations	39
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	39
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	38
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	35
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	33
‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations	32
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	29
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	27
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	26
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	26
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	25
Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies	24
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	22
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid	22
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	22

Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	22
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	21
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	21
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	21
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state	21
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	20
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	20
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	20
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	20
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies: exploring global trends in academic dependency	20
Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument	20
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	20
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	20
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	19
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	19
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	18
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	18
Enter the trade war? European public opinion on trade restrictions against China	17
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	17
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	15
The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization	15
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	15
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	15
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	15
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	14
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	13
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	12
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	12
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	12
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	12
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	12
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	11
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	11
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order	11
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	11
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	11
The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition	11
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	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	10
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	10
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	10
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	10
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	10
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production	10
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	10
Green macrofinancial regimes	10
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	10
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	9
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement	9

Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	9
Secular stagnation and climate change	9
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	9
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	9
Labor regimes, global conjunctures, and the restructuring of coal in Britain and Romania	9
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	8
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	8
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	8
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	8
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	8
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	8
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	8
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	8
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics	8
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	8