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 will be on a summer break 8/1-8-/15 2026. Manuscripts will not be sent under review or decisions deliberated in this period. We wish all RIPE authors, reviewers and readers a restorative summer pause.
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Specters of slavery in the global economy: rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London, by Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
Specters of slavery in the global economy: rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London
In 2020, amid global protests following the murder of George Floyd in the US, Lloyd’s of London – the world’s largest insurance marketplace with origins dating to 1688 – issued an historic apology ...
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Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument, by Phuong Pham & Melle Scholten
Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument
Under what conditions does economic interdependence increase or decrease state security? This article contributes to the scholarly debate on economic interdependence by examining the role of comple...
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Between trust and suspicion: affective framing and informal protectionism toward Korean and Chinese technology firms in Korean media, by Seungwoo Han
Between trust and suspicion: affective framing and informal protectionism toward Korean and Chinese technology firms in Korean media
Amid intensifying technological rivalry and limited avenues for formal protectionism, the emotional framing of firms has emerged as a critical dimension of economic competition. This study examines...
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Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies, by Jeffrey Ding & Dennis Yuen Li
Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies
Emerging economies face challenges in managing safety risks from powerful technologies. Indeed, some analysts identify China as the most likely source of an accident linked to emerging technologies...
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The moral economy of global priorities: fusing profit and public duty in malnutrition governance, by Juanita Uribe
The moral economy of global priorities: fusing profit and public duty in malnutrition governance
This article examines a shift in the discourses through which attention to problems is justified in global governance. Whereas appeals to the public good and private gain were once invoked as disti...
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‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations, by Asha Herten-Crabb
‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations
International trade governance is often framed as neutral and technocratic, emphasizing fairness, modernization, and mutual benefit. Yet, vast inequalities between the Global North and South persis...
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Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond, by Lukas Spielberger & Moritz Rehm
Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond
The European Union’s (EU) role as the largest provider of financial support to the Ukrainian government since Russia’s full-scale invasion challenges widely held conceptions about its lack of finan...
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The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization, by Martín Cortina-Escudero
The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization
We know that capitalism manifests in different ways, but how did these differences arise? This paper draws on the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) framework to understand how market economies differ a...
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The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order, by @jbrgreen.bsky.social
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order
This article revisits gold’s role within Bretton Woods, contributing to recent efforts to develop a more global and thematically inclusive international political economy (IPE). Challenging dominan...
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ECRs in IPE, who are applying to the Political Economy Beyond Boundaries (PEBB) section of the @europeanisa.bsky.social for the PEC in Lisbon, September 1-4, 2026, may also be considered for the two RIPE-sponsored panels. See the call below for details.
De/stabilizing capitalism in the Middle East? Infrastructure, uneven development and the humanitarian-development nexus in Jordan and Lebanon, by Lama Tawakkol
De/stabilizing capitalism in the Middle East? Infrastructure, uneven development and the humanitarian-development nexus in Jordan and Lebanon
Responding to the Syrian refugee influx into Jordan and Lebanon, Western donors have shifted from an emergency response to a humanitarian-development nexus (HDN) that incorporates development donor...
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Power from below: rethinking bargaining power in global value chains, by Caroline Hambloch, Claudia Coral, Guido Maschhaupt & Dagmar Mithöfer
Power from below: rethinking bargaining power in global value chains
Subordinate inclusion is integral to global value chains (GVCs), underpinning broader dynamics of uneven development. This paper presents a theoretically grounded conceptual framework to examine ho...
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We’re delighted to welcome Johannes Petry (Goethe University Frankfurt) as the *fourth* new editor at RIPE. @johannespetry.bsky.social studies financial globalisation—China’s financial system, financial infrastructures, BRICS/Asian finance, and the geopolitics of global finance. johannespetry.com
The rise and fall of economic coalitions in the Belt and Road Initiative: case study of a flagship project in Kenya, by Keren Zhu
The rise and fall of economic coalitions in the Belt and Road Initiative: case study of a flagship project in Kenya
China has financed and constructed infrastructure projects in over 100 countries, profoundly impacting host countries’ economic growth and political dynamics. Contrary to the initial warm embrace f...
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Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises, by David P. Castro & Leonard Seabrooke
Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises
Understanding the role of the firm and the corporation is an ongoing concern for political economy scholars. Following the increasing influence of the Multinational Enterprise (MNEs) and its develo...
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RIPE Editorial Board welcomes Ali Bhagat (Simon Fraser University) as our third new editor, starting January 2026.In his work, @alibhagat.bsky.social bridges critical global political economy, economic geography, and public policy, with a focus on migration, development, race, labour, and sexuality.
Banking against sustainable finance: the effect of the European central bank on green bonds, by Julio Galindo-Gutiérrez
Banking against sustainable finance: the effect of the European central bank on green bonds
This paper highlights the unintended consequences of central bank practices on climate finance performance. By providing information on central banks’ willingness to buy individual bonds from inves...
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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