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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

PostDoc Call

PreDoc Call

📌 Hiring one postdoctoral and two predoctoral researchers for the @erc.europa.eu project #COUNSTER, each position for up to 3 years to start on May 2026.

Postdoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline Feb 20)

Predoc: stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/IR2... (Deadline March 1)

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

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.

BAGEP 2026 başvuruları açıldı! - Bilim Akademisi Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 Son başvuru: 23 Ocak 2026 – 18.00 BAGEP yönergesi ve protokolünü buradan, BAGEP Etik Beyanı’nı buradan görebilirsiniz. Bilim Akademisi t...

Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 başvuruları açıldı!
Son gün 23 Ocak 2026.

Detaylar ve başvuru formu bağlantıda.
bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-b...

Happy to announce that our article on the EBRD has been published in Third World Quarterly 👇

Crypto currencies and development mode in flux: unfolding bitcoin mining in Georgia 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...

Crypto currencies and development mode in flux: unfolding bitcoin mining in Georgia, by Ia Eradze

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...

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

My department is hiring 👇

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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! 🎉

Read here: buff.ly/612GRk9

@ripejournal.bsky.social

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...

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

Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance - Seden Akcinaroglu, Jeremy Berkowitz, Carlos E. Moreno Leon, Sema Hande Ogutcu-Fu, Evgeny Sedashov, Efe Tokdemir, 2025 This study examines the factors influencing non-state armed actors’ (NSAAs) ability and willingness to implement rebel governance, with a focus on the group...

Grateful for the recognition of our article “Unique Offerings: Ideological Competition and Rebel Governance” by @apsa.bsky.social 2025 Conflict Section Best Paper Award.

It has recently become online first. If you are inquiring about rebel strategies, then:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“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

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!

Review of International Political Economy Volume 32, Issue 4 of Review of International Political Economy

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...

We're thrilled to host the @all_azimuth Online Workshop: Uncovering the Deep Structure of Turkish International Behavior on June 13, 2025.

Explore the full program below.

To engage in this substantive discussion, please register by completing this form: forms.gle/Z4tRoEXEcj2a...

Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett).

Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✏️New Publication! Our latest research article, "Power Shifts and Knowledge Production: India’s Rise and Scholarship in International Relations", by Aksel B. Hvid, Fabricio H. Chagas-Bastos, and Peter Marcus Kristensen is now online!

Publication Alert – Our latest article titled, "All Azimuth Debate: Gradual Reform or Revolution? Pathways to Global IR," by
@aysezarakol.bsky.social l and Ersel Aydınlı is now online !

www.allazimuth.com/2025/02/06/a...

Green macrofinancial regimes Debates about climate policy have neglected the question of macrofinancial pathways to decarbonisation, not all of which are economically and politically viable. We propose a theory of macrofinanci...

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....

RIPE 2024 diversity statement Published in Review of International Political Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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...

Come and join the Political Economy of Aid and Development Society in Scotland 23-24 April 2025 next year! Find the call for papers below ⬇️

From tax havens to cryptocurrencies: secrecy-seeking capital in the global economy The global backlash against tax havens has pushed secrecy-seeking capital to explore alternative opportunities in non-tax-haven countries and new financial technologies (FinTech). We identify two m...

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....

Geopolitics and Economic Statecraft in the European Union In response to great-power rivalry and the weaponization of interdependence, the EU has adopted a geopolitical approach to economic statecraft. To build resilience and maintain its international credi...

To adapt to a new global order, the EU has adopted a more geopolitical approach to its economic statecraft.

The new @carnegieendow.bsky.social report that I co-edited with Rosa Balfour explores the challenges to the EU economic political model in various thematic areas.

bit.ly/3ZdB8K0

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