OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Political Economy is 7. 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