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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 ...

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...

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...

The hyper-wealthy are increasingly, blatantly influencing politics both at home and abroad. Despite multiple paths to plutocrat-status, and perpetual infighting within the very top of the economic ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Amid intensifying ecological and social crises, global business elites increasingly advocate a shift toward ‘regenerative capitalism’, proposing businesses as agents of transformative, net positive...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...