OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	132
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	40
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	39
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?	36
Correction	36
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	36
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	34
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	32
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	31
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	28
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation	26
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	26
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	25
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	25
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	23
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	23
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	23
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	21
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	20
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	19
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	18
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds	17
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	17
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	17
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	16

India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	16
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	16
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	15
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	15
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	14
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	14
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	14
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	13
True master of our own destiny: the Third World and the decolonisation of political freedom	13
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities ^*	13
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	12
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	11
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	11
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	11
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	11
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	11
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	11
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	11
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina	10
State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy	10
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	9
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	9
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	9
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	9
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	9
Green macrofinancial regimes	8
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance	8
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	8
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	8
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	8
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	8
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	8
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	8
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	7
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	7
Secular stagnation and climate change	7
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	7
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	7
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	7
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	6
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	6
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	6
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	6
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	6
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	6

States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	6
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	6
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	6
The color of money at the financial frontier	5
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	5
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard	5
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia	5
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia	5
Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics	5
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy	5
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China	5
Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America	5
On ‘blind spots’ in (international) political economy	5
Entangled chains of global value and wealth	5
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities	5
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	5
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China	5
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador	5
RIPE 2023 diversity statement	5
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations	5
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory	5
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations	4
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia	4
Making Nairobi ‘open for business’: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier	4
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state	4
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets	4
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research	4
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures	4
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam	4
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE	4
The dual transformation in development finance: western multilateral development banks and China in post-Soviet energy	4
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan	4
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China	4
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road	4
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability	4
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance	4
The IMF as a global monitor: surveillance, information, and financial markets	4
Correction	4
The organizational ecology of the global space industry	4
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board	4
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship	4
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security	4
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’	4
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War	4
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes	4
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics	3
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France	3
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards	3
In the club: how and why central bankers created a hierarchy of sovereign borrowers, c. 1988–2007	3
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain	3
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China	3
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action	3
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO	3
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law	3
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?	3
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization	3
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies	3
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone	3
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China	3
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education	3
Oil and power: the effectiveness of state threats on markets	3
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice	3
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda	3
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022	3
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills	3
RIPE 2022 diversity statement	3
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax	3
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres	3
The double movement in Africa: a Nkrumah-Polanyi analysis of free market fatigue in Ghana’s private sector	3
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements	3
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming	3
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets	3