OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Political Economy is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board	83
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland	69
Digital corporate autonomy: geo-economics and corporate agency in conflict and competition	54
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	52
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	51
State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg	37
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations	35
Collaboration, cooperation, coordination: a history of the Bretton Woods twins’ efforts to work together	33
The exclusive nature of global payments infrastructures: the significance of major banks and the role of tech-driven companies	31
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	30
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	29
The international political economy of export credit agencies and the energy transition	28
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	27
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	27
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	25
When does liberal peace fail? Trade and nationalism	22
Socio-environmental conflicts and land governance: a study of Chinese infrastructure investments in Argentina	21
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	20
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	19
Earnest struggles: structural transformation, government finance and the recurrence of debt crisis in Senegal	18
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	18
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE	18
Correction	17
The hidden costs of global supply chain solutions	17
The organizational ecology of the global space industry	17

The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	17
Coercing finance to fund decarbonization: the democratic case for coercion in funding the green transformation	15
Unconventional central banking and the politics of liquidity	15
Developing influence: the power of ‘the rest’ in global tax governance	14
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	13
From social protection to ‘progressive neoliberalism’: writing the Left into the rise and resilience of neoliberal policies (1968–2019)	13
Utilization of GSP schemes as a political and economic determinant of the utilization of North-South FTAs	13
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?	13
Correction	13
Excluding through inclusion: managerial practices in the era of multistakeholder governance	13
Unsolicited justice: the impact of FCPA enforcement on corruption and investment	12
Music, time, and international political economy: making coevalness	12
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	12
Silences of Bretton Woods: gender inequality, racial discrimination and environmental degradation	12
Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas during war	12
2023 Susan K Sell best reviewer award	11
Environmental issue linkage as an electoral advantage: the case of NAFTA	11
The IMF as a global monitor: surveillance, information, and financial markets	10
Rethinking sovereign default	10
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’	10
Regional export-dependence and business-related popular votes in export-led Switzerland	9
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	9
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	9
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam	9
Market-creating states: rethinking China’s high-speed rail development	9
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability	9
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	9
Think globally, act locally? Domestic constraints on foreign aid	9
Regional assets and value capture trajectories: the growth and demise of an Australian automotive supplier	9
Globalizing from the inside out: national responses to international soft law in Latin America’s banking sector	9
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	8
Tools of regime stability: the political economy of sovereign wealth funds in Gulf rentier states	8
How business challenges climate transformation: an exploration of just transition and industry associations in Australia	8
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets	8
How Chinese firms approach investment risk: strong leaders, cancellation, and pushback	8
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War	7
Varieties of corporate innovation systems and their interplay with global and national systems: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft’s strategies to produce and appropriate artificial intelligence	7
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	7
Smart mix politics: business actors in the formulation of global supply chain regulation	7
Correction	6
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes	6
Who’s afraid of cryptoization? Evidence from a survey experiment in Finland	6
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	6
Hierarchy and differentiation in international regime complexes: a theoretical framework for comparative research	6
Continuity or change? Platforms and the hybridization of neoliberal institutional contexts	6
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	6
‘A sense of the systemic’: the Bank of England and the language of inclusive capitalism	6
Making and maintaining corporate empires: the political economy of FDI, appended	5
Taking back control: comprador bankers and managerial developmentalism in Poland	5
Jobs first, environment second: the conditional effect of pollution on perceptions of Foreign Direct Investment	5

Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	5
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	5
Organizing for transformation: post-growth in International Political Economy	4
Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry	4
Green macrofinancial regimes	4
The reregulation of capital flows in Latin America: assessing the impact of post-neoliberal governments	4
Global secular stagnation and the rise of intellectual property monopoly	4
The perils of capitalist modernity for the Global South: the case of Libya	4
Paradigms and policies: the state of economics in the German-speaking countries	4
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	4
The ‘climate shift’ in central banks: how field arbitrageurs paved the way for climate stress testing	4
Leveling-up: explaining the depth of South-South trade agreements	4
Extroverted financialization: how US finance shapes European banking	4
Market self-organization and the invisible hand of politics in global risk-trading	4
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	4
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	4
Political economy of the ‘informal’ housing question: institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state	4
Do choke points provide workers in logistics with power? A critique of the power resources approach in light of the 2018 truckers’ strike in Brazil	4
Securing the separation between state and finance: entanglements between securitization and societal differentiation	4
Factional politics and foreign direct investment in China	4
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	4
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	4
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards	3
‘I had to take control’: gendered finance rationality in the UK	3
An old, novel idea: introducing G-Pub, an original dataset of public bank formation	3
Capitalizing on crises: the EBRD, Jordanian state and joint infrastructure fixes	3
Dispossession, social reproduction and the feminization of refugee survival: Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi, Kenya	3
Balancing security and economics: domestic state-firm relations and investment screening mechanisms in Europe	3
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research	3
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road	3
Governance capture and socio-environmental conflict: a critical political economy of the global mining industry’s prior consultation regime	3
More debtfare than healthcare: business as usual in the Multilateral Development Banks’ COVID-19 response in India	3
Institutions, ideas and regional policy (un-)coordination: The East African Community and the politics of second-hand clothing	3
2023 Timothy Sinclair Best Article Award	3
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies	3
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	3
Monetary technocracy and democratic accountability: how central bank independence conditions economic voting	3
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone	3
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	3
Cascading noncompliance: why the export credit regime is unraveling	2
Adam Smith, just commercial society and corporate social responsibility	2
How to make a super-model: professional incentives and the birth of contemporary macroeconomics	2
Africa’s roads to digital development: paving the way for Chinese structural power in the ICT sector?	2
Representation and reward: the left-wing anti-globalization alliance, contributions, and the congress	2
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	2
State-industry relations and cybersecurity governance in Europe	2
Flying flags: nationality, sovereignty, and airline liberalization	2
Informal economic sanctions: the political economy of Chinese coercion during the THAAD dispute	2
Manifesting the embedded developmental state: the role of South Korea’s National Pension Service in managing financial crisis	2
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	2
Blind spots in IPE: contract law and the structural embedding of transnational capitalism	2
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax	2
The end of economics hegemony? studying economic ideas in a post-neoliberal world	2
Rebuilding the fortress? Europe in a changing world economy	2
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	2
What does the mid-1990s soybean liberalization tell us about the role of foreign investment in China’s rural industrialization?	2
No separate spheres: the contingent reproduction of living labor in Southern Africa	2
Gender in global trade: Transforming or reproducing trade orthodoxy?	2
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction	2
Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE	2
Non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements and global value chains	2
The fragility of depoliticization: revisiting the history of Central bank inflation-management	2
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures	2
Who funds whose infrastructure? Country dyadic analysis of global project finance loans	2
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	2
Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America	2
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	2
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education	2
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022	2
RIPE 2022 diversity statement	2
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	2
East Asia and the politics of global finance: a developmental challenge to the neoliberal consensus?	2
The Federal Reserve’s move to an explicit inflation target: incremental policy shifts in techno-political institutions	2
Growing differently? Financial cycles, austerity, and competitiveness in growth models since the Global Financial Crisis	2
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	2