The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.
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 from the shortlist by the selection committee, which this year consists of Ainsley Elbra (USyd), Claire Parfitt (USyd), Tim DiMuzio (UoW), Annabel Dulhunty (ANU), and Wenting He (ANU). The winner will be announced in November 2025.
The 2025 shortlist for The Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is as follows:
- 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.
- Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2024). The dialectical matrix of class, gender, race. Environment and Planning F, 4(3), 294-314.
- Beaumier, G., & Cartwright, M. (2024). Cross-network weaponization in the semiconductor supply chain. International Studies Quarterly, 68(1).
- Bless, A. (2024). The co-optation of regenerative agriculture: revisiting the corporate environmental food regime. Globalizations, 22(4), 590-612.
Past Awardees
2024 Elliot Dolan-Evans, ‘Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas during war’. Review of International Political Economy, 30(2), 437-462.
2023 Ainsley Elbra, John Mikler & Hannah Murphy-Gregory, ‘The Big Four and corporate tax governance: From global dis-harmony to national regulatory incrementalism,’ Global Policy, 14:1 (2023).
2022 Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri, ‘COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state,’ Review of International Political Economy, 29:4 (2022).
2021 Melissa Johnston, ‘Frontier finance: the role of microfinance in debt and violence in post-conflict Timor-Leste,’ Review of International Political Economy, 27:6 (2020).
2020 Claire Parfitt, ‘ESG Integration Treats Ethics as Risk, but Whose Ethics and Whose Risk? Responsible Investment in the Context of Precarity and Risk-Shifting,’ Critical Sociology, 46:4-5 (2020) [published OnlineFirst: 30 September 2019].
2019 Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon, ‘Power Paradox: How the Extension of US Infrastructural Power Abroad Diminishes State Capacity at Home’, Review of International Political Economy, 25:6 (2018).
2018 Maria Tanyag, ‘Invisible Labor, Invisible Bodies: How the Global Political Economy Affects Reproductive Freedom in the Philippines’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 19:1 (2017).
2017 Samanthi J. Gunawardana, ‘“To Finish, We Must Finish”: Everyday Practices of Depletion in Sri Lankan Export-Processing Zones’, Globalizations, 13:6 (2016).
2016 Gareth Bryant, Siddhartha Dabhi and Steffen Böhm, ‘“Fixing” the Climate Crisis: Capital, States and Carbon Offsetting in India’, Environment and Planning A, 47:10 (2015).
2015 Ainsley Elbra, ‘Interests Need Not be Pursued If They Can be Created: Private Governance in African Gold Mining’, Business and Politics, 16:2 (2014).
Comments