The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.
The prize will be awarded to the best article in international political economy (IPE) published in 2025 (online first or in print) by an Australia-based scholar.
The overall winner will be selected from the shortlist by the selection committee, which this year comprises Ainsley Elbra, Anja Bless, Elliot Dolan-Evans, Tim DiMuzio, and me. The winner will be announced by December 2026.
The shortlisted articles are:
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
Sturman, A. (2026). The capitalist state and critical agrarian studies: toward progressive strategy in the imperial core. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 53(2), 309–327
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
Wijaya, T. (2026). The rise of authoritarian statism in Indonesia and the crisis of crisis management. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 56(3), 349–377
Past Awardees
2025 Anja Bless, ‘The co-optation of regenerative agriculture: revisiting the corporate environmental food regime’, Globalizations, 22(4) (2025).
2024 Elliot Dolan-Evans, ‘Pipes, profits and peace: toward a feminist political economy of gas during war’, Review of International Political Economy, 30(2) (2023).
2023 Ainsley Elbra, John Mikler and 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).
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).
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