International Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of International Affairs is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why international organizations hate politics: depoliticizing the world98
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon50
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts47
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa39
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes38
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi: ruling party elites and illiberal peace36
Contributors34
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8934
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine33
Abstracts30
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes29
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy29
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia28
A green and global Europe28
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces28
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics27
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA26
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises26
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses25
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone24
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives23
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China22
Making geographies of peace and conflict22
Populism: Latin American perspectives21
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace21
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO20
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains19
Interventions since the Cold War: from statebuilding to stabilization19
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view18
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia18
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO16
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace16
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change16
The CIA in Ecuador16
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 191415
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling15
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates15
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship14
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world14
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition14
Negotiating the New START Treaty14
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners14
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments13
Queering the Responsibility to Protect13
Threat not solution: gender, global health security and COVID-1913
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS13
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity13
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims12
International Relations and political philosophy12
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?12
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy12
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service12
Understanding migration power in international studies12
Globalization, deglobalization and human security: the case of Myanmar11
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment11
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics11
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations11
How not to learn from history11
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project11
Correction 111
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment11
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era11
The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order11
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative11
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century11
The state of peacebuilding in Africa: lessons learned for policymakers and practitioners10
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war10
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment10
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy10
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda10
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies10
Rethinking American grand strategy10
Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global jihad in Nigeria; Insurgency and war in Nigeria: regional fracture and the fight against Boko Haram10
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time10
Contributors10
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies9
War and genocide in South Sudan9
Contributors9
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era9
Globalization, deglobalization and knowledge production9
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo9
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief9
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo8
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity8
From detente to containment: the emergence of Iran's new Saudi strategy8
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America8
Greatness and decline: national identity and British foreign policy8
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations8
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan8
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO8
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?8
Migration studies and colonialism8
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa8
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world8
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state8
Contributors8
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 19797
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires7
The star and the scepter: a diplomatic history of Israel7
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]7
Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United Nations7
New perspectives on diplomacy: a new theory and practice of diplomacy; New perspectives on diplomacy: contemporary diplomacy in action7
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya7
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa7
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war7
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas7
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power7
Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy7
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility7
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing7
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India6
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture6
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations6
The worst military leaders in history6
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies6
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US6
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution6
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation6
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world6
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs6
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war6
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them6
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity6
Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg6
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East5
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance5
Precision: a history of American warfare5
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism5
From hope to horror: diplomacy and the making of the Rwanda genocide5
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state5
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 18005
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums5
Australia's security in China's shadow5
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe5
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War5
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation5
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–19945
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now5
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–19195
A hierarchical vision of order: understanding Chinese foreign policy in Asia; China's asymmetric statecraft: alignments, competitors, and regional diplomacy; The authoritarian century: China's rise an5
Weizhi xianshi zhuyi: yizhong waijiao zhengce lilun [Positional realism: a theory of foreign policy]5
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–19185
Allusion, reasoning and luring in Chinese psychological warfare4
Abstracts4
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan4
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance4
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward4
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics4
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward4
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan4
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?4
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine4
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak4
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty4
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants4
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration4
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance4
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties4
International law and the politics of history4
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege4
Books reviewed May 20234
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept4
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary4
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system4
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule4
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order4
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture4
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE4
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20223
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs3
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language3
South Africa, race and the making of International Relations3
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy3
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative3
Guns, guerrillas, and the great leader: North Korea and the Third World3
Animosity at bay: an alternative history of the India–Pakistan relationship, 1947–19523
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations3
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security3
How the Gulf States are using their air space to assert their sovereignty3
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent3
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability3
How not to bridge the gap in international relations3
How not to manage crises in the European Union3
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy3
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China3
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter3
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy3
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict3
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires3
States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order3
Correction3
New democracy and autocratization in Asia3
Praxis as a perspective on international politics3
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay3
Population ageing and national security in Asia3
Britain and Italy in the era of the Great War: defending and forging empires3
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries3
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order3
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression3
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–213
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization3
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy2
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty2
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics2
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program2
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations2
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy2
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy2
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories2
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation2
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime2
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons2
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II2
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Books reviewed January 20242
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy2
Understanding global migration2
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states2
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20232
Environmentalism and global international society2
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action2
Routledge handbook of historical international relations2
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb2
Contributors2
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative2
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions2
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices2
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping2
Whither the Indo-Pacific? Middle power strategies from Australia, South Korea and Indonesia2
BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates2
The sea and International Relations2
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise2
Polycentrism: how governing works today2
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order2
How not to solve a financial crisis2
Libya and the global enduring disorder2
The hidden history of Burma: race, capitalism and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century; Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: between feminism and ethnopolitics2
International Relations and the problem of time2
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change2
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security2
The crisis of the conservative international order2
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?2
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new2
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy2
Latin America's democratic crusade: the transnational struggle against dictatorship, 1920s–1960s1
Attention politics and China's role transformation in global health partnerships1
Correction 3—Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine1
The ambiguous impact of populist trade discourses on the international economic order1
Peace and the politics of memory1
Contributors1
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