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Leading international journal dedicated to the systematic exploration of IPE from a plurality of perspectives.
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid by Esol Cho
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid
Research on foreign aid often relies on aggregated national allocations, yet this perspective overlooks the role of bureaucrats who determine where and how aid flows. Using a novel dataset on Korea...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Crypto currencies and development mode in flux: unfolding bitcoin mining in Georgia, by Ia Eradze
Crypto currencies and development mode in flux: unfolding bitcoin mining in Georgia
Cheap energy, absence of regulations on mining, low taxes, free industrial zones made Georgia an attractive place for Bitcoin mining and home to such big companies as Bitfury and Binance. This pape...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America, by Samuele Bibi, Nicole Cerpa Vielma & @dasilvapp.bsky.social
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America
In the 2000s and early 2010s, Brazil, Peru, and Chile experienced leftist electoral victories, reflecting the regional trend known as the Pink Tide. However, in the mid-2010s, the erosion of the po...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories, by Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories
This article advances a decolonial intervention in International Political Economy (IPE) by examining the centrality of racism in the formation of offshore zones under British and American colonial...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production, by Ellie Gore
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October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–1984, by Simone Polillo
The economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–1984
What counts as an exceptional economic intervention? The concept of economic exception, developed here, captures how central banks govern through crisis, situating their concrete, specific interven...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Chinese are coming! US think tanks and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa, by Neil Ketchley, Morten S. Andersen & Ole Jacob Sending
The Chinese are coming! US think tanks and the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa
It is now common for US government officials and policy analysts to cite China as the most significant current threat to US foreign policy interests. This article examines how the US foreign policy...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
RIPE editor Juanita Elias is assuming a new role as @mybisa.bsky.social Chair.
Introducing new BISA Chair @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social - Priorities and plans for 2025-2027 🌟

Join us as BISA Chair Professor Juanita Elias @warwickpais.bsky.social introduces herself and her 3 top priorities for BISA during her tenure! 🎉

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September 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain, by Paulina Flores-Martínez, Tony Heron, Chris West & Patricia Prado
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain
In this article, we provide a theoretical and substantive contribution to the emergent literature on hybrid sustainability governance through a critical engagement with Global Value Chain and Trans...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social
The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures
Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Layering of informal organisations in international regimes: the G20 Common Framework and the sovereign debt regime, by
Isabel Rodriguez-Toribio & Alexandra O. Zeitz
Layering of informal organisations in international regimes: the G20 Common Framework and the sovereign debt regime
Given that informal organisations are thought to be easy to reform, why do states sometimes choose to create new informal institution rather than reforming existing ones? We argue states may introd...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Review of International Political Economy
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds by Xuan Li &
@cornelban.bsky.social
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you are attending #EISAPEC2025 and are interested in publishing in @ripejournal.bsky.social please join the "Meet the Editors II" panel this afternoon (Thursday, Aug 28) at 17:30 (Sala Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani) to hear RIPE Editor @manuelamoschella.bsky.social speak about the journal.
August 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria, by Carla Coburger
Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria
The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa, by @drelisagambino.bsky.social and Costanza Franceschini
Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa
The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. ...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“Green Microfinancial Regimes” by @danielagabor.bsky.social and @benbraun.bsky.social leads RIPE Altmetric score for 2025. Check out the entire SI on Macrofinance and the Green Transformation edited by @leahdowney.bsky.social Leah Downey and @markblyth.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity, by @yumipark.bsky.social & @sujeongshim.bsky.social
Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) has emerged as a global lender of last resort by providing currency swap arrangements (CSAs) to foreign central banks. While existing literature has explored the econo...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Arjen van der Heide
The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance
This paper introduces the concept of financialised insurance through an analysis of the European insurance sector in the context of recent capitalist restructuring. It addresses a notable gap in th...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
RIPE had 194695 downloads in Q2 2025, as opposed to 143240 in Q2 2024, an increase of 35.92%. Thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!
August 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine, by Luis Aue
How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine
This article conceptualises how the political economy of interprofessional competition and compromises has sustained colonialist professional practices. When professions distinguish their work alon...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
RIPE Editor @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social reflects on the history of IPEG at @mybisa.bsky.social - which was often entwined with the growth and development of our journal.
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – IPEG turns 54!- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA
- International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group
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July 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets, by Ben Cormier (@bvcormier.bsky.social)
Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets
The extent to which sovereign investor bases include domestic or foreign residents varies across Emerging Markets (EMs). Bondholder residency has significant implications, but why EM investor bases...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, by Indigo Carson
Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation
Recent appraisals of Karl Polanyi’s account of the gold standard in The Great Transformation (The GT) have questioned the influence and contemporary relevance of his monetary thought for internatio...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM