OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Political Economy is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	104
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	79
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 Organization	53
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 NAFTA	39
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	36
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	34
Correction	33
An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion	32
Identity politics and trade preferences: how the gendered and racialised effects of trade matter	31
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	30
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	30
How business challenges climate transformation: an exploration of just transition and industry associations in Australia	27
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	26
Securing the separation between state and finance: entanglements between securitization and societal differentiation	26
Taking back control: comprador bankers and managerial developmentalism in Poland	26
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	22
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	20
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	20
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	20
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	20
What about the dragon in the room? Incorporating China into international political economy (IPE) teaching	19
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	19
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex	18

Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction	18
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	17
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	16
Transition, hedge, or resist? Understanding political and economic behavior toward decarbonization in the oil and gas industry	16
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	15
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	15
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	15
The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	15
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	15
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 future	14
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	14
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	14
State capital in a geoeconomic world: mapping state-led foreign investment in the global political economy	13
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	13
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	13
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
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	12
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
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	11
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	11
From domestic power to international subordination: the uses and impact of corporate bond issuance in emerging capitalist economies	10
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	10
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	10
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	8
Green macrofinancial regimes	8
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	8
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	8
Multilateralism à la carte: how China navigates global economic institutions	8
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	8
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	8
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	7
No separate spheres: the contingent reproduction of living labor in Southern Africa	7
Taking development for a ride: the World Bank’s research with ride-hailing companies	7
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	7
Varieties of gender wash: towards a framework for critiquing corporate social responsibility in feminist IPE	7
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	7
Counterproductive evolution: the long-term effects of short-term interventionism following the Great Financial Crisis	7
The life-nerve of the dialectic: György Lukács and the metabolism of space and nature	7
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	6
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	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
Peripheral financialization and the transformation of dependency: a view from Latin America	6
Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt	6

Trading off climate: how conventional trade interests shape climate discussions at PTA committees	6
Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states	6