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Review of International Political Economy
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 23h
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 3d
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 10d
RIPE editor Juanita Elias is assuming a new role as @mybisa.bsky.social Chair.
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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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 20d
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 22d
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 28d
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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Ali Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social · Sep 5
New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me

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Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state
Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Sep 2
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds by Xuan Li &
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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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 28
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.
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 19
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 18
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 16
“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
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 16
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 6
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 4
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!
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 1
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 31
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 30
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 28
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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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 23
‘Downsize and distribute’ or ‘merge and monopolize’: a critique of corporate financialisation theories, by Niall Reddy
‘Downsize and distribute’ or ‘merge and monopolize’: a critique of corporate financialisation theories
A growing literature has explained the persistent gap between profit levels and subdued investment by pointing to shareholder value imperatives and the associated pressure to ‘downsize and distribu...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 22
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets, by Dr. Jesse Salah Ovadia
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 21
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence
Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jun 27
Thrilled to publish RIPE 32:4 ahead of schedule and summer vacations, as it contains another brilliant special issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance, edited by Eugénia C. Heldt and Susan Park. Most articles are open access!
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Jun 6
Moving beyond the ornamental assertion of class and patriarchy as relational, @drmeljohnston.bsky.social delivers a BIG contribution to current debates on capitalist patriarchy with this latest article in @ripejournal.bsky.social
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The political economy of patriarchal accumulation
This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in brideprice that raises issues for social reproduction approaches’ unitary framework of ‘capitalist-patriarchy’. In Timor-Leste, brideprice averages ar...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · May 30
Ever wondered why the world is awash in capital, and so little of it goes towards decarbonization? Might have something to do with the issues raised in this special issue edited by @markblyth.bsky.social and @leahdowney.bsky.social
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Volume 32, Issue 3 of Review of International Political Economy
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