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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine98
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces78
A green and global Europe69
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics60
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes56
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia41
Abstracts40
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8935
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon34
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts32
Contributors31
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA30
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy30
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives30
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses30
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises29
The myth of American idealism: how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world28
Making geographies of peace and conflict26
Populism: Latin American perspectives26
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace26
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history26
Understanding maritime security25
Abstracts25
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO24
Status, states, and moral sentiments: how respect and disrespect shape international politics23
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view23
Racing for recognition? Theorizing emerging status hierarchies and prestige competition in the AI era23
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains22
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China22
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia22
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners21
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace21
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world21
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship21
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition21
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates21
The US as ‘leader’ and China as ‘collaborator’: AI technology transfer and technological advancement in the global South20
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change20
Fractured pasts in Lake Kivu's borderlands: conflicts, connections, and mobility in central Africa20
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling20
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS20
International Relations and political philosophy19
Books reviewed: July 202519
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims19
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?19
Freedom19
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments18
Understanding migration power in international studies17
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service17
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity17
How not to learn from history16
Queering the Responsibility to Protect16
Duty and choice: unpacking ambiguous perceptions of Ukrainian men fleeing the war16
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy16
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era16
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies15
Contributors15
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era15
Rethinking American grand strategy15
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo15
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war14
Correction 114
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative14
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda14
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment14
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time14
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment13
The derecognition of states13
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project13
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics13
Contributors13
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir13
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo12
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations12
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief12
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America12
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies11
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa11
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity11
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico11
Enduring empire: U.S. statecraft and race-making in the Philippines11
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan11
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice11
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation11
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world11
Bridging the gap between International Relations and Area Studies: the case of Japanese Studies11
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations11
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy11
Extremist timelines: interrogating the politics of time in twenty-first-century violent anti-liberal movements10
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya10
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right10
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas10
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO10
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires10
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies10
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?10
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility10
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India10
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums9
Sweden's grand strategy: predicaments of a small liberal state in a hostile world9
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs9
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war9
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war9
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity9
The worst military leaders in history9
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US9
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing9
Abstracts9
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations9
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation9
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world9
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture9
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution9
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state9
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–19188
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance8
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now8
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state8
Australia's security in China's shadow8
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–19948
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation8
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East8
Precision: a history of American warfare8
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 an8
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring7
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward7
The survival of international organizations: institutional responses to existential challenges7
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege7
Books reviewed May 20237
International law and the politics of history7
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order7
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture7
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants7
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis7
Abstracts7
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics7
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE7
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?7
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties7
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism7
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system7
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics7
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine7
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance7
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan7
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak7
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty7
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy6
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration6
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe6
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires6
New democracy and autocratization in Asia6
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20226
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan6
Praxis as a perspective on international politics6
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 18006
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept6
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order6
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability6
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance6
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs6
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward6
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?6
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China6
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict6
Correction6
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security5
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–215
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries5
Population ageing and national security in Asia5
Insurgent nations: rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan5
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression5
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century5
Furious minds: the making of the MAGA new right5
How not to bridge the gap in international relations5
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter5
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative5
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization5
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent5
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence5
How not to manage crises in the European Union5
Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels5
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy5
Understanding global migration4
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program4
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action4
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations4
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb4
The fractured age: how the return of geopolitics will splinter the global economy4
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress4
Contributors4
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change4
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy4
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy4
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new4
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II4
Books reviewed January 20244
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization4
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons4
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy4
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order4
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation4
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy4
How not to solve a financial crisis4
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise4
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik4
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping4
The sea and International Relations4
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states4
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices4
Polycentrism: how governing works today4
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?4
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions3
Alliances, nuclear weapons and escalation: managing deterrence in the 21st century3
Books reviewed March 20233
Organizational narratives and self-legitimation in international organizations3
Socialism goes global: the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation3
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-193
International norm disputes: the link between contestation and norm robustness, Contesting the world: norm research in theory and practice3
Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world3
Abstracts3
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20233
Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis3
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty3
Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance3
Historical sources of Russian imperial legitimation claims3
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism3
The Abraham Accords: the Gulf States, Israel, and the limits of normalization3
War-making as worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the war on terror3
The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East3
The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives3
Justice and international order: East and West3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative3
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’3
Hidden wars: gendered political violence in Asia's civil conflicts3
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954–19683
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories3
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine3
Turkey in Africa: Turkey's strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa3
Digital recognition: cybersecurity and internet infrastructure in UAE–Israel diplomacy3
Nations before the nation-state: between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present3
The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture3
Concerned, but not impressed: China eyes NATO's engagement in the Asia–Pacific3
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures3
Violent resistance: militia formation and civil war in Mozambique3
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime3
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession3
Contributors3
Editorial3
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