Review of International Political Economy

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey104
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas79
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?59
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization53
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?44
Environmental issue linkage as an electoral advantage: the case of NAFTA39
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism36
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health34
Correction33
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion32
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter31
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements30
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion30
How business challenges climate transformation: an exploration of just transition and industry associations in Australia27
Taking back control: comprador bankers and managerial developmentalism in Poland26
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research26
Securing the separation between state and finance: entanglements between securitization and societal differentiation26
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism22
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies20
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana20
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry20
RIPE 2021 diversity statement20
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy19
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching19
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction18
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex18
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone17
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right16
Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry16
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius15
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework15
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking15
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism15
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations14
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism14
The Geneva effect: where officials sit influences where they stand on WTO priorities *14
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future14
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise13
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws13
State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy13
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay13
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia13
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed12
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’12
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty12
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes11
Managing risk in the regulatory state of the South: the case of GM wheat in Argentina11
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea11
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems11
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies10
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies10
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus10
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions8
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–218
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence8
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance8
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima8
Green macrofinancial regimes8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey8
Do choke points provide workers in logistics with power? A critique of the power resources approach in light of the 2018 truckers’ strike in Brazil8
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements7
Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE7
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation7
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis7
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature7
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies7
No separate spheres: the contingent reproduction of living labor in Southern Africa7
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies7
Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees6
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states6
RIPE 2024 diversity statement6
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making6
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance6
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric6
Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America6
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt6
The process of paradigm change: the rise of guided innovation in China5
Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations5
The Public Investment Fund and Salman’s state: the political drivers of sovereign wealth management in Saudi Arabia5
The politics of capital mobility in dollarized economies: comparing Ecuador and El Salvador5
One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity5
The color of money at the financial frontier5
The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard5
Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China5
Back to Dakar: Decolonizing international political economy through dependency theory5
The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations4
Competitive infrastructure investment diffusion: emulating and learning from China4
Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes4
The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security4
Entangled chains of global value and wealth4
Pushing the bar – elite law firms and the rise of international commercial courts in the world economy4
Beyond ‘Once BITten, Twice Shy’: defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia4
The (surprise) return of development policy space in the multilateral trading system: what the WTO Appellate Body blockage means for the developmental state4
Correction4
Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board4
Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities4
RIPE 2023 diversity statement4
China’s growing digital reach: explaining citizens’ high approval rates of fintech investments in Southeast Asia4
RIPE 30th anniversary special feature: looking back and looking forward in IPE4
The organizational ecology of the global space industry4
Karl Polanyi and critical IPE: great transformations, the state and the importance of controlling the ‘rate of change’4
Beyond control? The political economy of private interception, intrusion, and surveillance markets4
The political economy of monetary-fiscal coordination: central bank losses and the specter of central bankruptcy in Europe and Japan4
The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship4
On ‘blind spots’ in (international) political economy4
The dual transformation in development finance: western multilateral development banks and China in post-Soviet energy4
The metamorphosis of external vulnerability from ‘original sin’ to ‘original sin redux’: currency hierarchy and financial globalization in emerging economies3
The ignorance of hypervigilance: agnotology and halal along the Belt and Road3
Epistemic gerrymandering: ESG, impact investing, and the financial governance of sustainability3
Macrofinance and the green transformation: nudging, attracting, and coercing capital towards decarbonization3
Weaponised interdependence in a bipolar world: how economic forces and security interests shape the global reach of US and Chinese cloud data centres3
Can informal judicial norms protect against political pressure?3
Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education3
Political risk and firm exit: evidence from the US–China Trade War3
Unfollow the money: mapping the micro agents of international tax3
Development, democracy, and dependence in the Southern Cone: political coalitions, stabilizing mechanisms, and their hazards3
Strategic interdependence and preferences for debt mutualization in the eurozone3
A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France3
In the club: how and why central bankers created a hierarchy of sovereign borrowers, c. 1988–20073
Who votes for free trade and when? Geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements3
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–20223
Global economic influence and domestic regime support: evidence from China3
RIPE 2022 diversity statement3
Towards a stronger EU approach on the trade-labor nexus? The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, social struggles and labor reforms in Vietnam3
Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research3
International regime complexity in sovereign crisis finance: a comparison of regional architectures3
A critical analysis of international organizations’ and global management consulting firms’ consensus around twenty-first century skills3
Fossil food: landed property as a hidden abode of global warming3
How do global trade rules evolve? Strategic sequencing in international economic law3
On the limits of economic activity: bridging degrowth and modern monetary theory for socio-ecological sustainability and justice3
Wall Street in China: the malleability of global finance in the age of geopolitics3
China’s rise and the reconfiguration of global economic governance3
The IMF as a global monitor: surveillance, information, and financial markets3
Decolonizing the political economy of energy transitions: new energy spaces and pluriversal politics in Mexico2
New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements2
The political economy of special economic zones: the cases of Ethiopia and Vietnam2
Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action2
Leveling-up: explaining the depth of South-South trade agreements2
Hierarchy and differentiation in international regime complexes: a theoretical framework for comparative research2
In-group punishment in international relations: US reactions to the founding of China’s AIIB2
Socio-environmental conflicts and land governance: a study of Chinese infrastructure investments in Argentina2
Excluding through inclusion: managerial practices in the era of multistakeholder governance2
Pro-trade nationalists and protectionist xenophobes? The conditional effects of psychological factors on trade attitudes2
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation2
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO2
The double movement in Africa: a Nkrumah-Polanyi analysis of free market fatigue in Ghana’s private sector2
Hybrid governance of joint ventures in transitional economies: the case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China2
Do geopolitical interests affect how financial markets react to IMF programs?2
A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system2
Making and maintaining corporate empires: the political economy of FDI, appended2
Who’s afraid of cryptoization? Evidence from a survey experiment in Finland2
From social protection to ‘progressive neoliberalism’: writing the Left into the rise and resilience of neoliberal policies (1968–2019)2
Moribund: exploring the relationship between foreign direct investment and indigenous language erosion in Latin America2
International financial subordination: a critical research agenda2
Oil and power: the effectiveness of state threats on markets2
Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain2
Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan2
Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy2
How Chinese firms approach investment risk: strong leaders, cancellation, and pushback2
Globalizing from the inside out: national responses to international soft law in Latin America’s banking sector2
Success story or tall tale? Discursive cooperation and economic restructuring in Iceland2
The hidden costs of global supply chain solutions2
Can domestic non-deliverable forwards replace the sale of international reserves? An analysis of the Brazilian experience2
Environmentalism among poor and rich countries: using natural language processing to handle perfunctory support and rising powers2
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