Longlist for the 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Journal Article Prize

The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the articles nominated by AIPEN members for the longlist for the 2025 prize, now in its 11^th year.

The prize will be awarded to the best article published in 2024 (online early or in print) in international political economy (IPE) by an Australia-based scholar.

The prize defines IPE in a pluralist sense to include the political economy of security, geography, literature, sociology, anthropology, post-coloniality, gender, finance, trade, regional studies, development, and economic theory, in ways that can span concerns for in/security, poverty, inequality, sustainability, exploitation, deprivation and discrimination.

The overall prize winner will be decided by the selection committee, comprised of AIPEN members. Before that decision can be made, we now require AIPEN members to vote on the longlist to establish the final shortlist of four articles for deliberation.

Voting is being conducted online through Election Buddy and is open to all members of the AIPEN e-list. Voting is open from 9am on Wednesday 24^th September and closes 5pm on Friday 17^th October (AEDT).

When voting opens, existing members will receive an email with instructions on how to vote.

Voting is also open to new subscribers to the AIPEN e-list. To subscribe, send an email to aipen+subscribe@googlegroups.com by Thursday 16^th October. Once you have subscribed you will soon be added to the voter list and will receive an email with voting instructions.

If you have any questions about the voting process or do not receive your email with voting instructions when voting opens, please contact me, Ainsley.elbra@sydney.edu.au.

The 2025 longlist for The Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is as follows:

1. Beaumier, G., & Cartwright, M. (2024). Cross-network weaponization in the semiconductor supply chain. International Studies Quarterly, 68(1).
2. Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2024). The dialectical matrix of class, gender, race. Environment and Planning F, 4(3), 294-314.
3. Bless, A. (2024). The co-optation of regenerative agriculture: revisiting the corporate environmental food regime. Globalizations, 22(4), 590-612.
4. Engel, S., & Pedersen, D. (2023). More debtfare than healthcare: business as usual in the Multilateral Development Banks’ COVID-19 response in India. Review of International Political Economy, 31(2), 487-510.
5. Fernandez, B., & Athukorala, H. R. (2023). Dispossession, social reproduction and the feminization of refugee survival: Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. Review of International Political Economy, 31(3), 905-929.
6. Gawin, P. (2024). Law, Rising Seas, Rising Seas, Law and the Political Economy of Asset Ownership. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 93, 7-27.
7. Hameiri, S., & Jones, L. (2024). Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing. European Journal of International Relations, 30(3), 697-724.
8. Heino, B. (2024). ‘Those who make no effort deserve no consideration’: Ecofascism in David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game. Environment & Planning E, 7(4), 1463-1481.
9. Hirata, K. (2024). Mining the informal empire: Sino-Japanese relations and ironmaking in Manchuria, 1909–1931. Business History, 1-18.
10. Johnston, M., & Meger, S. (2024). Morbid symptoms: a feminist dialectics of global patriarchy in crisis. European Journal of International Relations, 31(3), 509-536.
11. Maher, H. (2023). Neoliberalism versus the market? Liz Truss, neoliberal resilience, and Lacan’s theory of the four discourses. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(2), 325-342.
12. Nelson, A. (2023). Marx, work, agency and postcapitalist prefiguration. Human Geography, 18(1), 59–69.
13. Park, S. (204). Governance Gaps and Potential Accountability Traps in the Global Shift to Renewable Energy. Environmental Policy and Governance, 34(6), 754-767.
14. Peterson, M., & Downie, C. (2023). The international political economy of export credit agencies and the energy transition. Review of International Political Economy, 31(3), 978-994.
15. Ryan, M. D. (2024). ‘A great many of them die’: Sugar, race and cheapness in colonial Queensland. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(2).
16. Tzouvala, N. (2024). Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony, and the Unraveling of Third World Sovereignty. Yale Journal of International Law, 1-25.
17. Webber, S. (2024). For and against climate capitalism. Geographical Research, 62(1), 14-27.
18. Wijaya, T., & Jayasuriya, K. (2024). Militarised neoliberalism and the reconstruction of the global political economy. New Political Economy, 29(4), 546-559.
19. Wijaya, T., & Sinclair, L. (2024). An EV-fix for Indonesia: the green development-resource nationalist nexus. Environmental Politics, 34(2), 252-274.
20. Withers, M. (2024). Depletion through Transnational Social Reproduction: Guestworker Migration and Uneven Development in the South Pacific. Work in the Global Economy, 4(1), 30-51.