Review of International Political Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of International Political Economy is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey168
The institutional design of joint bodies in trade agreements: monitoring commitments, facilitating negotiations, avoiding ratification59
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 Organization58
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas56
Against inflation: queer-feminist monetary (and price) theory44
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter42
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion41
Correction40
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation40
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion39
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations39
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism38
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements35
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research33
‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations32
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health29
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex27
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies26
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy26
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone25
Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies24
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism22
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana22
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid22
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching22
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism21
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state21
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds21
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies21
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE20
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies: exploring global trends in academic dependency20
Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument20
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking20
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius20
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right20
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital20
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework20
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities *19
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?19
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future18
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom18
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism17
Enter the trade war? European public opinion on trade restrictions against China17
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation15
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations15
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay15
The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization15
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise15
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia14
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws13
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems12
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’12
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies12
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty12
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina12
The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition11
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes11
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America11
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed11
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions11
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order11
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability11
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima11
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–2110
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies10
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production10
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance10
Green macrofinancial regimes10
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey10
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets10
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence10
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance10
Secular stagnation and climate change9
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism9
RIPE 2024 diversity statement9
Labor regimes, global conjunctures, and the restructuring of coal in Britain and Romania9
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies9
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement9
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation9
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states8
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric8
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics8
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies8
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis8
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees8
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements8
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance8
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt8
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador8
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China7
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory7
Twilight of the oligarchs7
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations7
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy7
Power from below: rethinking bargaining power in global value chains7
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard7
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China7
The color of money at the financial frontier7
RIPE 2023 diversity statement7
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan7
Entangled chains of global value and wealth7
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion7
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties7
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia7
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities7
Making Nairobi ‘open for business’: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier6
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia6
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state6
De/stabilizing capitalism in the Middle East? Infrastructure, uneven development and the humanitarian-development nexus in Jordan and Lebanon6
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures6
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security6
Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings6
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship6
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board6
The organizational ecology of the global space industry6
A network model of creditor coordination6
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia6
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China6
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations6
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone5
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War5
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE5
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road5
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance5
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China5
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax5
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures5
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability5
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets5
Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond5
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research5
RIPE 2022 diversity statement5
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?5
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies5
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam5
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes5
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’5
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards5
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–19845
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories5
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills4
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education4
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–20224
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets4
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China4
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain4
The battle for plastic hegemony: the petrochemical historical bloc and the UN Global Plastics Treaty4
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics4
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice4
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming4
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain4
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law4
Institutional layering as (counter-)hegemonic strategy: unpacking China’s global development initiative4
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization4
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres4
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements4
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France4
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda3
Specters of slavery in the global economy: rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London3
Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan3
Rapidly innovating firms: patent lifecycle and support for trade and IP enforcement3
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity3
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance3
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO3
Decolonizing the political economy of energy transitions: new energy spaces and pluriversal politics in Mexico3
Pro-trade nationalists and protectionist xenophobes? The conditional effects of psychological factors on trade attitudes3
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation3
From social protection to ‘progressive neoliberalism’: writing the Left into the rise and resilience of neoliberal policies (1968–2019)3
Toward regenerative capitalism? The remaking of corporate sustainability in times of crises3
The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam3
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements3
Do geopolitical interests affect how financial markets react to IMF programs?3
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action3
High-road or low-road? Europe’s EV battery rollout and the tradeoffs of green industrial policy in a geoeconomic world3
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland3
Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy3
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