International Affairs

Article	Citations
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine	117
A green and global Europe	107
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics	77
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes	73
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia	63
Abstracts	45
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–89	44
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon	35
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts	35
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses	34
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy	34
Contributors	34
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives	33
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises	32
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA	32
The myth of American idealism: how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world	31
Populism: Latin American perspectives	30
Making geographies of peace and conflict	30
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history	30
Abstracts	29
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace	29
Understanding maritime security	29
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China	28
Status, states, and moral sentiments: how respect and disrespect shape international politics	27
The normative and the political: Kelsen, Schmitt, Morgenthau, and the future international order	27

The rise and fall of the British Army, 1975–2025	26
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view	25
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO	25
Racing for recognition? Theorizing emerging status hierarchies and prestige competition in the AI era	24
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces	24
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship	23
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains	23
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners	23
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia	23
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition	23
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates	22
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace	22
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change	22
International Relations and political philosophy	21
The US as ‘leader’ and China as ‘collaborator’: AI technology transfer and technological advancement in the global South	21
Fractured pasts in Lake Kivu's borderlands: conflicts, connections, and mobility in central Africa	21
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service	20
Freedom	20
Books reviewed: July 2025	20
In search of green China	19
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity	19
Correction 1	18
How not to learn from history	17
Damage limitation: how China and Russia try to mitigate Europe's geopolitical distancing	17
Duty and choice: unpacking ambiguous perceptions of Ukrainian men fleeing the war	17
Nuclear deterrence: the ghost pillar of the Non-Proliferation Treaty	17
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments	16
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS	16
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy	16
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims	16
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?	16
Queering the Responsibility to Protect	16
Books reviewed: July 2026	16
Rethinking American grand strategy	15
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era	15
Contributors	15
Understanding migration power in international studies	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
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time	15
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo	15
Correction 1	15
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda	14
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	14
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project	13
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice	13
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan	13
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation	13
Contributors	13
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment	13
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir	13

The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations	13
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations	13
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics	13
The derecognition of states	13
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa	13
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity	13
Extremist timelines: interrogating the politics of time in twenty-first-century violent anti-liberal movements	12
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy	12
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world	12
Bridging the gap between International Relations and Area Studies: the case of Japanese Studies	12
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo	12
Ecocide in Ukraine: the environmental cost of Russia's war	12
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico	12
Enduring empire: U.S. statecraft and race-making in the Philippines	12
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO	12
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies	11
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas	11
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies	11
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?	11
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires	11
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India	11
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief	11
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right	11
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility	11
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them	10
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture	10
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing	10
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US	10
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs	10
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution	9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state	9
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity	9
The worst military leaders in history	9
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–1918	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
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations	9
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world	9
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state	9
Abstracts	9
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation	9
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums	9
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation	9
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war	9
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance	8
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics	8
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak	8
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism	8
Books reviewed May 2023	8
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East	8
Australia's security in China's shadow	8
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege	8
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties	8
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe	8
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–1994	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
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order	8
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine	8
Abstracts	8
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance	8
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?	8
Precision: a history of American warfare	8
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants	7
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 1800	7
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis	7
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty	7
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy	7
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance	7
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict	7
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system	7
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring	7
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward	7
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics	7
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan	7
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires	7
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward	7
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture	7
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?	7
The survival of international organizations: institutional responses to existential challenges	7
Praxis as a perspective on international politics	7

Genocide: the power and problems of a concept	7
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order	7
Population ageing and national security in Asia	6
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence	6
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy	6
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability	6
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022	6
How not to bridge the gap in international relations	6
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter	6
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries	6
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative	6
Correction	6
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	6
How not to manage crises in the European Union	6
Furious minds: the making of the MAGA new right	6
Insurgent nations: rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan	6
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression	6
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China	6
New democracy and autocratization in Asia	6
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization	6
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–21	5
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations	5
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security	5
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy	5
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb	5
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation	5
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik	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 solve a financial crisis	5
Understanding global migration	5
Contributors	5
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy	5
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new	5
Securing peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia after the Cold War	5
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping	5
Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels	5
Books reviewed January 2024	5
The sea and International Relations	5
The fractured age: how the return of geopolitics will splinter the global economy	4
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states	4
Contributors	4
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?	4
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons	4
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics	4
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime	4
Caribbean blood pacts: Guatemala and the Cold War struggle for freedom	4
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states	4
Balancing pressures: the politics of governing the European economy	4
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress	4
Hidden wars: gendered political violence in Asia's civil conflicts	4
Polycentrism: how governing works today	4
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices	4
Multiplexity 2.0: power and pluralism in the post-liberal age	4
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise	4
India's China strategy after Galwan: minilateral and multilateral soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific	4
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–2023	4
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization	4
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine	4
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order	4
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change	4
Historical sources of Russian imperial legitimation claims	4
How to be a diplomat	4
Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance	4
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions	4
How research travels to policy: the case of Nordic peace research	3
The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives	3
Editorial	3
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism	3
‘We are soldiers now’: green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation	3
The crisis of the conservative international order	3
Violent resistance: militia formation and civil war in Mozambique	3
War-making as worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the war on terror	3
Organizational narratives and self-legitimation in international organizations	3
The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East	3
The future of the occupation of the Palestinian Territories after Gaza: scenarios, stakeholders and ‘solutions’	3
The Abraham Accords: the Gulf States, Israel, and the limits of normalization	3
Don't shoot the journalists: migrating to stay alive	3
Partisans: the conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s	3
How to survive a crisis	3
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program	3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative	3
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy	3
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	3
Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world	3
Concerned, but not impressed: China eyes NATO's engagement in the Asia–Pacific	3
Online organic intellectuals: shoring up neo-liberalism in Brazil	3
Nations before the nation-state: between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present	3
International norm disputes: the link between contestation and norm robustness, Contesting the world: norm research in theory and practice	3
The political economy of connectivity in the Somali Horn of Africa	3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories	3
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy	3
Justice and international order: East and West	3
India's civilizational arguments in south Asia: from Nehruvianism to Hindutva	3
Polarization and international politics	3
Reinscribing global hierarchies: COVID–19, racial capitalism and the liberal international order	3