International Affairs

Article	Citations
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine	104
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces	83
A green and global Europe	70
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics	62
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes	59
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia	42
Abstracts	38
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–89	34
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon	33
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts	32
Contributors	31
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses	30
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy	30
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives	29
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA	29
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises	29
The myth of American idealism: how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world	28
Populism: Latin American perspectives	27
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history	27
Abstracts	26
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace	26
Making geographies of peace and conflict	26
Understanding maritime security	25
Status, states, and moral sentiments: how respect and disrespect shape international politics	24
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO	24

The normative and the political: Kelsen, Schmitt, Morgenthau, and the future international order	24
The rise and fall of the British Army, 1975–2025	23
Racing for recognition? Theorizing emerging status hierarchies and prestige competition in the AI era	23
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia	22
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view	22
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition	22
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains	22
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China	22
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship	21
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners	21
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change	20
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates	20
The US as ‘leader’ and China as ‘collaborator’: AI technology transfer and technological advancement in the global South	20
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling	20
Fractured pasts in Lake Kivu's borderlands: conflicts, connections, and mobility in central Africa	20
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace	20
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?	19
International Relations and political philosophy	19
Books reviewed: July 2025	18
Freedom	17
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims	17
Understanding migration power in international studies	17
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service	17
How not to learn from history	16
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments	16
Correction 1	16
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy	16
Damage limitation: how China and Russia try to mitigate Europe's geopolitical distancing	16
In search of green China	16
Duty and choice: unpacking ambiguous perceptions of Ukrainian men fleeing the war	16
Nuclear deterrence: the ghost pillar of the Non-Proliferation Treaty	16
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity	16
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo	15
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies	15
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS	15
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era	15
Queering the Responsibility to Protect	15
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda	14
Correction 1	14
Rethinking American grand strategy	14
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time	14
Contributors	14
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics	13
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project	13
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	13
The derecognition of states	13
Contributors	13
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment	13
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations	12
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir	12

Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies	12
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa	12
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice	12
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations	11
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world	11
Enduring empire: U.S. statecraft and race-making in the Philippines	11
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity	11
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan	11
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico	11
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation	11
Extremist timelines: interrogating the politics of time in twenty-first-century violent anti-liberal movements	11
Bridging the gap between International Relations and Area Studies: the case of Japanese Studies	10
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo	10
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies	10
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India	10
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs	10
Ecocide in Ukraine: the environmental cost of Russia's war	10
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy	10
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief	10
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility	10
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US	10
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas	10
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?	10
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO	10
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires	10
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right	10
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture	10
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing	9
Abstracts	9
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation	9
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war	9
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them	9
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity	9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state	9
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution	9
Sweden's grand strategy: predicaments of a small liberal state in a hostile world	9
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war	9
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance	8
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world	8
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations	8
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 an	8
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums	8
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation	8
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East	8
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state	8
The worst military leaders in history	8
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–1918	8
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance	7
Books reviewed May 2023	7
Australia's security in China's shadow	7
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege	7
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties	7
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism	7
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine	7
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order	7
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics	7
Precision: a history of American warfare	7
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants	7
Abstracts	7
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring	7
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?	7
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	7
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–1994	7
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak	7
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture	7
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty	7
New democracy and autocratization in Asia	6
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022	6
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy	6
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward	6
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward	6
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis	6
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative	6
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order	6
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability	6
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China	6
Praxis as a perspective on international politics	6
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?	6
The survival of international organizations: institutional responses to existential challenges	6
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 1800	6

The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance	6
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict	6
Correction	6
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept	6
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system	6
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe	6
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics	6
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan	6
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires	6
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries	5
Population ageing and national security in Asia	5
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik	5
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping	5
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression	5
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	5
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–21	5
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence	5
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter	5
Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels	5
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new	5
Furious minds: the making of the MAGA new right	5
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization	5
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent	5
How not to manage crises in the European Union	5
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations	5
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II	5
How not to bridge the gap in international relations	5
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy	5
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security	5
Insurgent nations: rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan	5
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy	4
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy	4
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order	4
Polycentrism: how governing works today	4
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty	4
Hidden wars: gendered political violence in Asia's civil conflicts	4
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb	4
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy	4
How not to solve a financial crisis	4
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change	4
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy	4
Contributors	4
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices	4
The sea and International Relations	4
Books reviewed January 2024	4
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program	4
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation	4
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative	4
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine	4
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress	4
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?	4
Contributors	4
Understanding global migration	4
The crisis of the conservative international order	3
Turkey in Africa: Turkey's strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives	3
Alliances, nuclear weapons and escalation: managing deterrence in the 21st century	3
Editorial	3
The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East	3
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions	3
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime	3
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’	3
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states	3
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954–1968	3
Balancing pressures: the politics of governing the European economy	3
Justice and international order: East and West	3
Historical sources of Russian imperial legitimation claims	3
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization	3
The Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian state	3
The Abraham Accords: the Gulf States, Israel, and the limits of normalization	3
War-making as worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the war on terror	3
Concerned, but not impressed: China eyes NATO's engagement in the Asia–Pacific	3
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	3
Violent resistance: militia formation and civil war in Mozambique	3
Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance	3
Caribbean blood pacts: Guatemala and the Cold War struggle for freedom	3
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession	3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories	3
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism	3
Multiplexity 2.0: power and pluralism in the post-liberal age	3
India's China strategy after Galwan: minilateral and multilateral soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific	3
How to survive a crisis	3
Books reviewed March 2023	3
Nations before the nation-state: between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present	3
The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture	3
International norm disputes: the link between contestation and norm robustness, Contesting the world: norm research in theory and practice	3
Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world	3
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise	3
Abstracts	3
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–2023	3
Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis	3
The fractured age: how the return of geopolitics will splinter the global economy	3
Socialism goes global: the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation	3
How to be a diplomat	3
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons	3