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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey	124
The dog that does not bark – Weaponised interdependence and digital trade at the World Trade Organization	61
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived: why not a Latin American school of IPE?	50
The global politics of the renewable energy transition and the non-substitutability hypothesis: towards a ‘great transformation’?	39
Environmental issue linkage as an electoral advantage: the case of NAFTA	37
Development for whom? The case of USAID in Ukraine’s Donbas	37
Correction	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	33
Veto powers and access capabilities in the design of preferential trade agreements	31
Renminbi internationalization and research agenda for currency network expansion	31
The ‘ethical recruitment’ of international nurses: Germany’s liberal health worker extractivism	27
Cryptocurrencies and the IPE of money: an agenda for research	25
Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health	25
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies	24
Personalism and the politics of central bank independence under authoritarianism	23
A ‘race to the bottom’ or variegated work regimes? Industrial relocation, the changing migrant labor regime, and worker agency in China’s electronics industry	22
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana	21
RIPE 2021 diversity statement	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
When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone	18
Unpacking the ‘developing’ country classification: origins and hierarchies	18
Political economy of vaccine diplomacy: explaining varying strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy	17
Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction	17

The political economy of a tax haven: the case of Mauritius	16
Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework	16
Friedrich Engels on development and nature: rethinking ecology beyond Western Marxism	15
India’s political shift in a Latin American mirror: the dialectics of dependency and monopoly capital	15
Trade shocks and relative consumption: why the European middle class is turning far right	15
How does exposure to EITI member countries affect extractive industry conduct?	14
Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism	14
Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking	14
Walter Rodney and the method of political economy: retrieving a critical-historical IPE	14
Africa in IPE theorization: exclusion, oversight, and Eurocentrism in the field’s past and future	13
Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty	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
Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia	12
Legal diffusion as protectionism: the case of the U.S. promotion of antitrust laws	11
Executive compensation in Europe: realized gains from stock-based pay	11
The political economy of patriarchal accumulation	11
Global rivalries, corporate interests and Germany’s ‘National Industrial Strategy 2030’	11
Ideas for macroeconomic surveillance: a comparative text analysis of country reports by global and regional financial organizations	11
The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise	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
Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems	9
Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes	9
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
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets	8
The not-so Great Game: political economy of changing US energy policy in the Caspian Sea	8
Growth models and central banking: dominant coalitions, organizational sense-making, and conservative policy innovations at the Bundesbank and Fed	8
The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability	8
Adding ‘origination’ to diffusion theory: contrasting the roles of China and the EU in green finance	8
Trade negotiations: teaching consensus	8
New champions of preferential trade? Two-level games in China’s and India’s shifting commercial strategies	8
Transnational city networks, global political economy, and climate governance: C40 in Mexico and Lima	8
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence	7
Secular stagnation and climate change	7
Green macrofinancial regimes	7
Invisible hands of empire: the black radical tradition and the longue durée of racial finance capitalism	7
The political consequences of dependent financialization: Capital flows, crisis and the authoritarian turn in Turkey	7
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
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21	7
Rediscovering the multinational enterprise: the rise and fall of ‘corporate escape’ studies	6
RIPE 2024 diversity statement	6
States and new markets: the novelty problem in the IPE of finance	6
From garments to grievances: the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies	6
Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation	6
Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric	6
Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements	6
Veni vidi VC – the backend of the digital economy and its political making	6

Mandate management: a field theory approach to the EBRD’s adaptive practice in Egypt