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/

what a gem 👏👏👏

Our article in @ripejournal.bsky.social studies the political economic sources of authoritarianism and a discussion on those sources on undermining bureaucracy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

read this fascinating review article from @gemmagasseau.bsky.social in @ripejournal.bsky.social that sets out an IPE of water governance engaging social reproduction theory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In honour of the anniversary of Brexit, here's a paper co-authored with @vapunkt.bsky.social published @ripejournal.bsky.social looking at how populism and Brexit can be understood as a manufactured crisis of British neoliberalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

to understand the 'green capitalism' part of how the US got here, read our @benbraun.bsky.social account: colliding macrofinancial regimes - when China's Big Green State meets Biden's Robust Derisking, there is one winner. New @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social on the conceptual foundations of the Latin American structuralist approach to eco-development, the developmentalist ancestor of sustainable development. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good news for IPE in Italy: @ripejournal.bsky.social is now recognized as "fascia A" (top tier) scientific journal in the field of economic sociology in the list of journals used by the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research Quality(ANVUR). 🙏 to @aritassinari.bsky.social for the initiative!

As we enter the New Year, RIPE editors have some good news to report!!! Our editors are: @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @hozic.bsky.social Alison Johnston @skostem.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @stefanoponte.bsky.social @kevinyoung.bsky.social and Hongying Wang doi.org/10.1080/0969...

This year @ripejournal.bsky.social passed an important milestone: we have received more than 600 submissions even before the year’s end. We thank all the journal’s editors, authors and reviewers who have helped us maintain the journal’s reputation as the premier outlet for heterodox IPE.

1. from last year, but found an issue in @ripejournal.bsky.social this year: with @mattiylonen.bsky.social and Ringa Raudla, we traced how secrecy-seeking capital shifts strategies amidst a global backlash against tax havens and the rise of Fintech: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....