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

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

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, by Andrew C McWard & Yumi Park

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

Gendering Pan-African trade: exploring the transformational potential of the African continental free trade agreement, by Sophia Price

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

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

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

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

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.

Power and sustainability governance in the soy-animal protein global value chain, by Paulina Flores-Martínez, Tony Heron, Chris West & Patricia Prado

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social

Layering of informal organisations in international regimes: the G20 Common Framework and the sovereign debt regime, by Isabel Rodriguez-Toribio & Alexandra O. Zeitz

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 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds by Xuan Li & @cornelban.bsky.social

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.

Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria, by Carla Coburger

Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa, by @drelisagambino.bsky.social and Costanza Franceschini

“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

Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity, by @yumipark.bsky.social & @sujeongshim.bsky.social

The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Arjen van der Heide

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!

How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine, by Luis Aue

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.

Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets, by Ben Cormier (@bvcormier.bsky.social)

Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, by Indigo Carson

‘Downsize and distribute’ or ‘merge and monopolize’: a critique of corporate financialisation theories, by Niall Reddy

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

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

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! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/3...

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 @feministonmarx.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

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 In RIPE: Vol 32, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/3...

New paper co-authored by Mark Blyth in @ripejournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on macrofinance and the green transition—“Macrofinance and the Green Transformation: Nudging, Attracting, and Coercing Capital Toward Decarbonization.”

Drowning in the ocean of terrifying news, we belatedly celebrate @ripejournal.bsky.social best article and best reviewer awards for 2024. The awards were announced at IPE reception (chaired by Anja Jetschke, below) at @isanet.bsky.social conference in Chicago last week (March 2-5, 2025). 1/4

Today on @ppesydney.bsky.social we lead with Elliot Dolan-Evans' blog post on his awarding-winning AIPEN prize journal article focusing on the gendered dimensions of energy liberalisation in Ukraine, published in @ripejournal.bsky.social -- Congratulations Elliot!! @therealelliotde.bsky.social

Another RIPE ISA pre-conference workshop for early career researchers us now in the books. Always such a pleasure to see the work that bright young scholars are doing in IPE. Looking forward to seeing these big and important ideas take shape.

New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article with @debfrombrazil.bsky.social on "Developing countries in global trade governance: comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes" in @ripejournal.bsky.social Our collaboration started at ISA some years ago, and I am super pleased this is one out now!

We're most grateful to @ripejournal.bsky.social and the editors of this issue on macrofinance and climate, Mark Blyth and @leahdowney.bsky.social. Check out the other contributions: At least one is already out, by @jonasnahm.com & @nilskupzok.bsky.social, and more is coming. 15/

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