Longlist for the 2026 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 2026 prize.

The prize will be awarded to the best article published in 2025 (online early or in print) in international political economy (IPE) by Australia-based academic(s). 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, which is comprised of AIPEN members and this year includes Ainsley Elbra, Anja Bless, Elliot Dolan-Evans, Tim DiMuzio, and me. Before that decision can be made, we now invite AIPEN members to vote on the longlist to establish the final shortlist of four articles for deliberation.

Voting is being conducted online through ElectionBuddy and is open to all members of the AIPEN e-list. Voting is open from 9am on Monday 21 September (AEST) and closes 5pm on Friday 9 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 8 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 at wenting.he@anu.edu.au.

The 2026 longlist for The AIPEN Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is as follows:

1. Alami, I., Taggart, J., & Chodor, T. (2025). Rebuilding the ladder? Contemporary contests over industrial policy. Global Policy, 1-14.
2. Avilés, D., & Morton, A. D. (2025). Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy in Mexico and Chile. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 57(5), 587-613.
3. Broom, J. (2025). Financializing political rationality: social impact bonds and everyday financialization in the Australian welfare state. Review of International Political Economy, 33(2), 792-821.
4. Coe, N. M., Sinclair, L., Gibson, C., & Warren, A. (2025). Resourcing GPNs: multi-scalar state derisking of energy transition minerals at a time of polycrisis. Journal of Economic Geography, 1-23.
5. de Jong McKenzie, M. (2025). Young investors, precariousness, and the maturing asset economy. Finance and Society, 11(1), 21-35.
6. Gavin, M. A. (2025). Interest groups and central bank credit policies: Evidence from 1600-1914. Comparative Political Studies, 59(2), 410-438.
7. Hameiri, S., & Jones, L. (2025). International development financing in the Second Cold War: The miserly convergence of Western donors and China. Development and Change, 56(1), 3-30.
8. Hayes, E., Coe, N. M., & Sinclair, L. (2025). Variegated decoupling: Australian firm strategies in the lithium global production network. The Extractive Industries and Society, 24, 1-13.
9. Maher, H. (2025). The neoliberal Great Replacement theory: on the racialization of markets and migration. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 27(1), 83-101.
10. Park, S., & Summerfield-Ryan, O. (2025). The embodied political ecology of solar energy: Tracing socio-ecological impacts through solar photovoltaic global supply chains. Energy Research & Social Science, 127, 1-15.
11. Rogers, D., & McAuliffe, C. (2025). Housing’s values: Housing as an ethical urbanism. Environment and Planning F, 4(3), 357-373.
12. Sturman, A. (2025). The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 53(2), 309-327.
13. Tanyag, M. (2025). Who cares for the carers? Patriarchal contradictions and the reinvention of the global economy. Review of International Political Economy, 32(5), 1544-1569.
14. Twyford, E., Rowe, R., & Andrew, J. (2025). Financial gaslighting: The financialisation of care in later life. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 101, 1-21.
15. Wijaya, T. (2025). The rise of authoritarian statism in Indonesia and the crisis of crisis management. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 56(3), 349-377.