International Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of International Affairs is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay75
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy66
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy47
Great powers, climate change, and global environmental responsibilities41
Uzbekistan's international relations40
The Middle East and American national security: forever wars and conflicts?39
‘How China loses: the pushback against Chinese global ambitions’ and ‘The avoidable war: the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China’32
China's foreign policy contradictions: lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy29
Abstracts27
The politics of LGBTQ rights expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean26
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy26
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II24
Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy: a framework of EU foreign policy change23
White freedom: the racial history of an idea22
Why international organizations hate politics: depoliticizing the world21
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics21
Highways to the end of the world: roads, roadmen and power in South Asia21
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise21
Every citizen a statesman: the dream of a democratic foreign policy in the American century21
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE21
Legitimating non-state actor engagement in global climate governance20
Imbuing climate security with positive peace: a peace continuum approach to sustaining peace during climate crisis20
Inescapable entrapments? The civil–military decision paths to Uruzgan and Helmand20
Books reviewed November 202119
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa19
The ISIS reader: milestone texts of the Islamic State movement17
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot; Strategic turnaround: story of a government agency17
Climate, catastrophe, and faith: how changes in climate drive religious upheaval15
Abstracts15
Transitional justice and the ongoing exclusion of sexual exploitation and abuse by international intervenors15
Capital and imperialism: theory, history, and the present15
The International Organization for Migration: the new ‘UN migration agency’ in critical perspective14
Turkey–West relations: the politics of intra-alliance opposition14
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action13
Contesting revisionism: China, the United States, and the transformation of international order13
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb12
China's grand strategy: a roadmap to global power?12
Women, Peace and Security across scales: exclusions and opportunities in Iraq's WPS engagements11
Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate11
Blue helmet bureaucrats: United Nations peacekeeping and the reinvention of colonialism, 1945–197111
The Indian Ocean as a new political and security region11
Order, justice and inequality: the curious case of jihadist divine justice10
A green and global Europe10
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces10
The Russian approach to peacekeeping10
The sea and International Relations10
Polarity in International Relations: past, present, future9
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations9
Israel's national security, the Arab position, and its complicated relations with the United States9
Islamophobia and the politics of empire: twenty years after 9/119
Russia's war on everybody and what it means for you; The Russia conundrum: how the West fell for Putin's power gambit—and how to fix it9
Understanding Bangladesh's security governance through peacekeeping assemblage: does contribution matter?9
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb8
The political economy of connectivity in the Somali Horn of Africa8
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories8
The invention of green colonialism8
Latin American social movements and progressive governments: creative tensions between resistance and convergence8
After the apocalypse: America's role in a world transformed8
Environmentalism and global international society8
The crisis in the palm of our hand8
A small state's guide to influence in world politics8
Hybrid sovereignty in world politics8
International Relations and the problem of time8
Whither the Indo-Pacific? Middle power strategies from Australia, South Korea and Indonesia8
From innovation to participation: connectivity and the conduct of contemporary warfare8
Global resurgence of the right: conceptual and regional perspectives8
Ascending order: rising powers and the politics of status in International Relations8
Barriers down: how American power and free-flow policies shaped global media7
Reactionary democracy: how racism and the populist far right became mainstream7
(Re)introducing world hegemony into the ‘global organic crisis’7
Securitization revisited: contemporary applications and insights7
ASEAN and power in international relations: ASEAN, the EU, and the contestation of human rights7
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes7
The ironic state: British comedy and the everyday politics of globalization7
The new climate war: the fight to take back our planet7
Surrogate warfare: the transformation of war in the twenty-first century7
Global energy politics7
The absolutely indispensable man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the fight to end empire7
New directions in Women, Peace and Security7
Multilateral sanctions revisited: lessons learned from Margaret Doxey7
Polycentrism: how governing works today7
BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates7
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 ethnopolitics7
Libya and the global enduring disorder7
How not to run international affairs7
The 2020 Belarusian presidential election and conspiracy theories in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict7
Rebel economies: warlords, insurgents, humanitarians7
Routledge handbook of historical international relations7
How China lost its wolf pack: the fracturing of the emerging-power alliance at the WTO6
Contributors6
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security6
How states think: the rationality of foreign policy6
Abstracts6
Decapitation strategies and the significance of Abubakar Shekau's death in Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis6
Books reviewed January 20246
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives6
South Korea and NATO: from unlikely companions to key partners6
The new Atlantic order: the transformation of international politics, 1860–19336
Respected individuals: when state representatives wield outsize influence in international organizations6
Introduction NATO at 756
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan6
Mohammed bin Salman: the Icarus of Saudi Arabia?5
Introduction: new directions in foreign policy analysis5
Virtual issue: The Middle East in International Affairs5
National role conceptions in a new millennium: defining a place in a changing world5
Interactive peacemaking: a people-centered approach5
Understanding global migration5
How not to solve a financial crisis5
Colonial institutions and civil war: indirect rule and Maoist insurgency in India5
Gendering Sweden's nuclear renunciation: a historical analysis5
Decolonizing politics: an introduction5
Books reviewed January 20235
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy5
Reaching for the heights: the inside story of a secret attempt to reach a Syrian-Israeli peace5
Gwangju uprising: the rebellion for democracy in South Korea5
Contributors5
Books reviewed July 20225
The violence of conservation in Africa: state, militarization and alternatives5
Rethinking pragmatism through the lens of Michel Foucault: governance of bilateral relations5
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program5
The ideal river: how control of nature shaped the international order5
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy5
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states4
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine4
Proscribing peace: how listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations4
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts4
Sinostan: China's inadvertent empire4
Books reviewed September 20234
Handbook on the politics of memory; The Routledge handbook of memory activism4
Ambiguities in the EU's rights-based approach to liberal order4
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises4
How not to think like a hegemon4
Contributors4
Abstracts4
Empires of Eurasia: how imperial legacies shape international security; The neighborhood effect: the imperial roots of regional fracture in Eurasia4
The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism4
Contributors4
Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin4
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon4
Of light and struggle: social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay4
Women and the Afghan peace and reintegration process4
Democracy on the ground: local politics in Latin America's left turn4
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view3
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes3
From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings3
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO3
Missing voices: Latin American perspectives in International Relations3
The Lumumba plot: the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination3
Liberalism against itself: Cold War intellectuals and the making of our times3
Books reviewed: September 20243
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20233
India versus China: why they are not friends3
Making geographies of peace and conflict3
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO3
How not to negotiate: the case of trade multilateralism3
Forgotten warriors: a history of women on the front line; The women behind the few: the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British intelligence during the Second World War3
Mexican women's neglected early International Relations contributions3
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia3
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime3
Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism3
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty3
Hypocrisy and human rights: resisting accountability for mass atrocities3
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi: ruling party elites and illiberal peace3
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses3
Disciplining India: paternalism, neo-liberalism and Hindutva civilizationalism3
Misunderstanding Myanmar through the lens of democracy3
From EU battlegroups to Rapid Deployment Capacity: learning the right lessons?3
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace3
Global health law & policy: ensuring justice for a healthier world3
International Relations in a relational universe3
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy2
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping2
Japan and the liberal international order: rules-based, multilateral, inclusive and localized2
Contesting global justice from the South: redistribution in the international order2
Security force assistance to Cameroon: how building enclave units deepens autocracy2
Building on open economy politics to understand the stalled EU–India trade negotiations2
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics2
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?2
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA2
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative2
(Dis)order and (in)justice in a heating world2
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy2
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Piracy and the broader ‘gun business’ in the Niger Delta2
The wannabe fascists: a guide to understanding the greatest threat to democracy2
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–892
Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order2
Europe's constitutional unsettlement: testing the political limits of legal integration2
Knowledge production on peace: actors, hierarchies and policy relevance2
Syria betrayed: atrocities, war, and the failure of international diplomacy2
Norm diffusion in cyber governance: China as an emerging norm entrepreneur?2
Resisting domination in Palestine: mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality and settler colonialism2
Populism: Latin American perspectives2
Interventions since the Cold War: from statebuilding to stabilization2
Emerging middle powers and the liberal international order2
How ‘making the world in its own liberal image’ made the West less liberal2
The politics of antagonism: populist security narratives and the remaking of political identity2
Abortion pills go global: reproductive freedom across borders2
Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump2
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new2
Abstracts2
Using force to protect civilians: successes and failures of United Nations peace operations in Africa2
Globalization, deglobalization and the liberal international order2
The scholarship–practitioner nexus: lessons from Latin American foreign policy2
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions2
Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: a case for strategic diplomacy2
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone2
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order2
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains2
Singapore's conception of the liberal international order as a small state2
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices2
Beyond a ‘survivor-centred approach’ to conflict-related sexual violence?2
War and aesthetics: art, technology, and the futures of warfare2
The dilemma of energy security: political and institutional hazards in case of Pakistan (1947–2020)2
International organizations' responses to member state contestation: from inertia to resilience2
Inside the deal: how the EU got Brexit done2
Bordering Britain: law, race and empire1
In memoriam: Gillian Somerscales 1958–20231
The clean energy transition: policies and politics for a zero-carbon world1
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures1
The effects of global populism: assessing the populist impact on international affairs1
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service1
The Rohingya: an ethnography of ‘subhuman’ life1
The Sandinista revolution: a global Latin American history; Nicaragua must survive: Sandinista revolutionary diplomacy in the global cold war1
Tragic nation Burma: why and how democracy failed1
African military politics in the Sahel: regional organizations and international politics1
Agonies of empire: American power from Clinton to Biden1
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession1
Reclaiming migration: voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’1
Editorial1
Normative transformation and the war on terrorism: the evolution of targeted killing, torture, and private military contracting1
Imperial inequalities: the politics of economic governance across European empires1
Explaining populist securitization and Rodrigo Duterte's anti-establishment Philippine foreign policy1
Extremism and counter-extremism narratives in Pakistan: an analysis of narrative building1
Not on the map: the peculiar histories of de facto states1
Klimat: Russia in the age of climate change1
Near and far waters: the geopolitics of seapower; The Neptune factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the concept of sea power1
Backfire: how sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests1
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’1
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-191
How to survive a crisis1
Digital frontiers in gender and security: bringing critical perspectives online1
International parliamentary institutions and political donations: the case of the European Parliament1
Abstracts1
Memory fragmentation from below and beyond the state: uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings1
We may dominate the world: ambition, anxiety, and the rise of the American Colossus1
Global Marxism: decolonisation and revolutionary politics1
Why AI undermines democracy and what to do about it1
Nothing is impossible: America's reconciliation with Vietnam1
Hybrid balancing as classical realist statecraft: China's balancing behaviour in the Indo-Pacific1
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