International Affairs

Article	Citations
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine	98
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces	78
A green and global Europe	69
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics	60
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes	56
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia	41
Abstracts	40
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–89	35
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon	34
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts	32
Contributors	31
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives	30
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses	30
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA	30
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy	30
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	26
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace	26
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history	26
Making geographies of peace and conflict	26
Abstracts	25
Understanding maritime security	25
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO	24
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view	23

Racing for recognition? Theorizing emerging status hierarchies and prestige competition in the AI era	23
Status, states, and moral sentiments: how respect and disrespect shape international politics	23
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China	22
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia	22
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains	22
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world	21
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship	21
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition	21
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates	21
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners	21
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace	21
Fractured pasts in Lake Kivu's borderlands: conflicts, connections, and mobility in central Africa	20
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling	20
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS	20
The US as ‘leader’ and China as ‘collaborator’: AI technology transfer and technological advancement in the global South	20
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change	20
Books reviewed: July 2025	19
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims	19
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?	19
Freedom	19
International Relations and political philosophy	19
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments	18
Understanding migration power in international studies	17
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service	17
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity	17
Duty and choice: unpacking ambiguous perceptions of Ukrainian men fleeing the war	16
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy	16
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era	16
How not to learn from history	16
Queering the Responsibility to Protect	16
Contributors	15
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era	15
Rethinking American grand strategy	15
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
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	14
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda	14
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment	14
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time	14
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war	14
Correction 1	14
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project	13
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics	13
Contributors	13
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir	13
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment	13
The derecognition of states	13
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief	12
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America	12
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo	12

Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations	12
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico	11
Enduring empire: U.S. statecraft and race-making in the Philippines	11
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan	11
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice	11
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation	11
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world	11
Bridging the gap between International Relations and Area Studies: the case of Japanese Studies	11
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations	11
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy	11
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies	11
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa	11
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity	11
Extremist timelines: interrogating the politics of time in twenty-first-century violent anti-liberal movements	10
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya	10
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right	10
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas	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
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies	10
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?	10
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility	10
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India	10
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums	9
Sweden's grand strategy: predicaments of a small liberal state in a hostile world	9
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs	9
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war	9
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war	9
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity	9
The worst military leaders in history	9
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US	9
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing	9
Abstracts	9
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations	9
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation	9
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world	9
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture	9
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution	9
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them	9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state	9
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–1918	8
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance	8
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	8
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state	8
Australia's security in China's shadow	8
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–1994	8
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation	8
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East	8
Precision: a history of American warfare	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
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 survival of international organizations: institutional responses to existential challenges	7
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege	7
Books reviewed May 2023	7
International law and the politics of history	7
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order	7
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture	7
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants	7
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis	7
Abstracts	7
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics	7
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE	7
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?	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
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system	7
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics	7
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine	7
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance	7
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan	7
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak	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	6
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration	6
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe	6
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires	6
New democracy and autocratization in Asia	6
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022	6
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan	6

Praxis as a perspective on international politics	6
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 1800	6
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept	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 meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance	6
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs	6
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward	6
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 China	6
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict	6
Correction	6
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–21	5
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy	5
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries	5
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security	5
Population ageing and national security in Asia	5
Insurgent nations: rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan	5
Furious minds: the making of the MAGA new right	5
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression	5
How not to bridge the gap in international relations	5
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	5
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter	5
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative	5
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence	5
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization	5
How not to manage crises in the European Union	5
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent	5
Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels	5
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik	4
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping	4
The sea and International Relations	4
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states	4
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices	4
Polycentrism: how governing works today	4
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?	4
Understanding global migration	4
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program	4
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action	4
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations	4
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb	4
The fractured age: how the return of geopolitics will splinter the global economy	4
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress	4
Contributors	4
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change	4
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy	4
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy	4
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new	4
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II	4
Books reviewed January 2024	4
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization	4
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons	4
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy	4
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order	4
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation	4
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy	4
How not to solve a financial crisis	4
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise	4
Digital recognition: cybersecurity and internet infrastructure in UAE–Israel diplomacy	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
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
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime	3
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession	3
Contributors	3
Editorial	3
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions	3
Alliances, nuclear weapons and escalation: managing deterrence in the 21st century	3
Books reviewed March 2023	3
Organizational narratives and self-legitimation in international organizations	3
Socialism goes global: the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation	3
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-19	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
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
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty	3
Challenging the EU Deforestation Regulation: sovereignty games as authority contests in global governance	3
Historical sources of Russian imperial legitimation claims	3
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism	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
The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East	3
The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives	3
Justice and international order: East and West	3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative	3
‘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 conflicts	3
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954–1968	3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories	3
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine	3
Turkey in Africa: Turkey's strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	3