Review of International Political Economy
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Leading international journal dedicated to the systematic exploration of IPE from a plurality of perspectives.
RIPE has a great new team! Allow us to introduce Ida Bastiaens (Fordham University), who joined RIPE as an editor on January 1, 2026. Ida's research examines the politics of economic integration and public preferences for it—alongside its consequences for fiscal capacity and social welfare.
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
RIPE has a great new team! Allow us to introduce Ida Bastiaens (Fordham University), who joined RIPE as an editor on January 1, 2026. Ida's research examines the politics of economic integration and public preferences for it—alongside its consequences for fiscal capacity and social welfare.
RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:35 PM
RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state, by Jacob Bloom
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state
This article explores Australian social impact bonds (SIBs) as a case study of the everyday life of state financialization and considers their implications for the relationship between financializa...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state, by Jacob Bloom
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy
This commentary essay makes the case for a different way of conceptualizing the role of ideas in political economy by arguing for the need to endogenize the limits of ideas—recognizing the key role...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion, by Lars Cornelissen
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
This paper brings together scholarship on the history of neoliberal thought with the emerging ‘raced finance’ research agenda. The paper makes a methodological and an empirical contribution. First,...
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January 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion, by Lars Cornelissen
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance, by Stefan Renckens & Christian Elliott
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance
Global governance initiatives addressing sustainable finance, whether for advancing climate risk disclosure or defining green bond standards, have proliferated for over 20 years. Emblematic of a la...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance, by Stefan Renckens & Christian Elliott
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
Partners and rivals? The AIIB’s cooperation with preexisting multilateral development banks, by Benjamin Daßler, Angelo Gerber-Helm & @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social
Partners and rivals? The AIIB’s cooperation with preexisting multilateral development banks
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is often seen as a challenger to established Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) like the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), whi...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Partners and rivals? The AIIB’s cooperation with preexisting multilateral development banks, by Benjamin Daßler, Angelo Gerber-Helm & @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social
RIPE had a banner year in 2025. Prior to this year, submissions to the journal were consistently increasing by about 2-10% per year. In 2025, submissions jumped by nearly 50%. RIPE received 910 manuscripts compared to 618 in 2024 and 552 in 2023, a significant deviation from our long-term trend.
December 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
RIPE had a banner year in 2025. Prior to this year, submissions to the journal were consistently increasing by about 2-10% per year. In 2025, submissions jumped by nearly 50%. RIPE received 910 manuscripts compared to 618 in 2024 and 552 in 2023, a significant deviation from our long-term trend.
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties, by Andrew C. McWard & @yumipark.bsky.social
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties
Sparked by a proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) at the turn of the century, the modern international investment regime now faces a backlash from dissatisfied states. We examine t...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties, by Andrew C. McWard & @yumipark.bsky.social
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties, by Andrew C McWard & Yumi Park
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties
Sparked by a proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) at the turn of the century, the modern international investment regime now faces a backlash from dissatisfied states. We examine t...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Play the scramble, avoid the backlash? Partisan dynamics in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties, by Andrew C McWard & Yumi Park
A network model of creditor coordination, by Paasha Mahdavi, Christina J. Schneider & Jennifer L. Tobin
A network model of creditor coordination
This paper presents a network model of creditor coordination. We argue that creditors are embedded in informal networks that shape their willingness to provide loans or restructure debt. Rather tha...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A network model of creditor coordination, by Paasha Mahdavi, Christina J. Schneider & Jennifer L. Tobin
Digital financialization through demonetization: disruption, fintech adoption and everyday endurance in Nigeria, by Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen
Digital financialization through demonetization: disruption, fintech adoption and everyday endurance in Nigeria
On 26 October 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced a demonetization exercise aimed at curbing corruption and advancing digital financial inclusion. While the policy was framed as a mod...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Digital financialization through demonetization: disruption, fintech adoption and everyday endurance in Nigeria, by Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement, by
Sophia Price
Sophia Price
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement
International trade agreements are increasingly concerned with gender inequality and the gendered structures and impacts of trade. This ‘gendering’ of trade reflects the emergence of new trade poli...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement, by
Sophia Price
Sophia Price
Toward regenerative capitalism? The remaking of corporate sustainability in times of crises, by Philip Schleifer
Toward regenerative capitalism? The remaking of corporate sustainability in times of crises
Amid intensifying ecological and social crises, global business elites increasingly advocate a shift toward ‘regenerative capitalism’, proposing businesses as agents of transformative, net positive...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Toward regenerative capitalism? The remaking of corporate sustainability in times of crises, by Philip Schleifer
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
The role of aid bureaucracy heads: evidence from the allocation of Korean aid by Esol Cho
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
Crypto currencies and development mode in flux: unfolding bitcoin mining in Georgia, by Ia Eradze
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
Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America, by Samuele Bibi, Nicole Cerpa Vielma & @dasilvapp.bsky.social
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
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories, by Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones
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
Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production, by Ellie Gore
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 economic exception: how the Bank of Italy framed crisis to govern, 1960–1984, by Simone Polillo
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
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
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
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
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! 🎉
Read here: buff.ly/612GRk9
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Join us as BISA Chair Professor Juanita Elias @warwickpais.bsky.social introduces herself and her 3 top priorities for BISA during her tenure! 🎉
Read here: buff.ly/612GRk9
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September 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
RIPE editor Juanita Elias is assuming a new role as @mybisa.bsky.social Chair.
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
Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain, by Paulina Flores-Martínez, Tony Heron, Chris West & Patricia Prado