International Studies Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of International Studies Quarterly 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics36
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad30
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies30
Slow Dissent and Worldmaking beyond Imperial Relations in “Kamer-amère” (Bitter Cameroon)28
Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor–State Dispute Settlement27
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises25
Human Shields and the Gulf War25
Corrigendum to “Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries”23
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–201223
Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Tacit Coalition Behavior among Civil War Actors22
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations20
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China20
Ideological Topography in World Politics: A Guide to the End of the Unipolar-Homogeneous Moment20
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes20
Lineage or Legions? Explaining Imperial Rule Duration in the Roman Empire18
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer16
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?16
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory14
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump14
How Do Economic Sanctions Affect Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior in Target States? Evidence from China's Economic Sanctions on South Korea13
Memory Entrepreneurship: Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe13
Risk Is Relative: Heterogeneous Responses to Institutional Risks for Foreign Investment12
Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa11
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument11
Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups10
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force10
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War10
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon10
What Relations Matter?9
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders9
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes9
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage9
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice9
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training9
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies9
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation9
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea9
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy9
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion9
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War9
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention9
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America8
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries8
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition8
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade8
Diffusing Risk: Bureaucratic Agency, UN Security Council Horse-Trading, and the Role of Co-Financing8
Threat Conceptions in Global Security Discourse: Analyzing the Speech Records of the United Nations Security Council, 1990–20198
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?7
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion7
A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War7
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations7
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia7
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment7
Reputations and Change in International Relations7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations7
Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don't Influence Peacemaking7
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War7
Learning to Fight Together: UN Peacekeeping Coalitions and Civilian Protection6
From Norm Violations to Norm Development: Deviance, International Institutions, and the Torture Prohibition6
Resisting Lockdown: The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions on Social Unrest6
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia6
Bending the Automation Bias Curve: A Study of Human and AI-Based Decision Making in National Security Contexts6
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 19456
Do Intergovernmental Organizations Have a Socialization Effect on Member State Preferences? Evidence from the UN General Debate6
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems6
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment6
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China6
Military Alliances and Public Support for War6
How Bashar al-Asad Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “War on Terror”6
Political Obligations of Refugees5
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification5
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force5
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society5
Bureaucracy and Cyber Coercion5
Authoritarian Propaganda Campaigns on Foreign Affairs: Four Birds, One Stone, and the South China Sea Arbitration5
Social Power and the Politics of Reservations and Objections in Human Rights Treaties5
The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas5
The Art of Brexit5
When Do Diplomatic Protests Boomerang? Foreign Protests against US Arms Sales and Domestic Public Support in Taiwan5
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis5
Diversity without Adversity? Ethnic Bias toward Refugees in a Co-Religious Society5
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability5
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms5
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies4
Win-Win Deescalation4
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition4
Infrastructural Geopolitics4
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies4
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid4
No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America4
Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining4
Democracy and the Transnational Dimensions of Low-Level Conflict and State Repression4
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism4
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations4
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms4
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War4
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?4
Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Counterterrorism Coalitions4
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics4
Race and International Organizations3
Subgroup Differences in Implicit Associations and Explicit Attitudes during Wartime3
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes3
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?3
The Limits of Enforcement in Global Financial Governance: Blacklisting in FATF as Rational Myth3
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents3
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid3
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality3
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States3
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies3
Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset3
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers3
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China3
Do Foreign Military Deployments Provide Assurance? Unpacking the Micro-Mechanisms of Burden Sharing in Alliances3
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises3
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations3
Emigration and Political Contestation3
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients3
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending3
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries3
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage3
Alliance Dynamics in the Shadow of Shifting Power3
Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens3
Trading Sovereignty for Self-Determination3
Promoting Law Beyond the State3
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows3
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor3
Government Choices of Debt Instruments3
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports3
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons3
Where Is the Money From? Attitudes toward Donor Countries and Foreign Aid in the Arab World3
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government3
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy2
All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict2
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists2
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference2
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion2
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings2
Protection for Hire: Cooperation through Regional Organizations2
Mutual Interventions in Africa2
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping2
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?2
Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities2
Child Victims and the Punishment of UN Peacekeepers for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse2
Political Theology and International Relations: From History to Emancipation2
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship2
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets2
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations2
Order without Victory: International Order Theory Before and After Liberal Hegemony2
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics2
Spiral to Surveillance: The Effect of INGOs on Levels of Peacekeeper Misconduct2
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis2
Toward a Theory of Heteronomy2
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?2
Has Global Trade Competition Really Led to a Race to the Bottom in Labor Standards?2
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization2
Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracies: A Study of Cases from China and Russia2
Fed Up: The Global Ascension of the Federal Reserve in the Era of Migration2
How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations2
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence2
The Problem with Trade Measurement in International Relations2
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights2
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus2
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology2
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid1
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China1
The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–20201
New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties1
Transforming Zones of Exclusion to Zones of Inclusion? Local-Level UN Peacekeeping Deployments and Educational Attainment1
The Tyranny of Supply: Natural Resources and Rebel Territorial Control in Civil Conflicts1
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience1
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy1
Organizational Bricolage and Insurgent Group Effectiveness in Cities: The Formation and Initial Urban Campaign of the Movement of the 19th of April in Colombia (1973–1980)1
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention1
Calendar versus Analysis Time: Reanalyzing the Relationship between Humanitarian Aid and Civil Conflict Duration1
Contestation from Below: Status and Revisionism in Hierarchy1
Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Singapore's Hedging1
Common-Pool Hierarchy: Explaining the Emergence of Cooperative Hierarchies1
Inference with Extremes: Accounting for Extreme Values in Count Regression Models1
Diplomatic Gender Patterns and Symbolic Status Signaling: Introducing the GenDip Dataset on Gender and Diplomatic Representation1
Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War1
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups1
How Alliances Shape Rivalries1
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict1
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy1
Contesting State Monologues: Indigenous Grassroots’ Struggles with Prior Consultation Norms in the Peruvian Amazon1
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts1
Theorizing Infrastructures in Global Politics1
Beyond State and Hegemony: International Orders as Anarchic Meta-Fields1
Anxious Politics: Contesting Fantasies Surrounding the Removal of Statues of Slavery and the Confederacy1
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries1
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
The Transit Fix—Border Externalization and the Interplay of Capital and Race in the Transit “Migration” State1
Traditional Authorities and Strategies in Demands for Self-Determination1
Determinants of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Meta-Reanalysis Distinguishing Two Classes of Zero Observations1
Causal Evidence for Theories of Contagious Civil Unrest1
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy1
Thinking Outside of the Box: Transnational Terrorism in Civil Wars1
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India1
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments1
Corrigendum to: Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 17? An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Aid Given to Boost Developing Countries? Tax Revenue and Capacity1
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20041
Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
Atomic Arguments and Counter-Arguments: How Exposure to Conflicting Information Influences American Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons1
The Determinants of Uncertainty in International Relations1
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda1
To Blame or to Support? Large-scale Insurgent Attacks on Civilians and Public Trust in State Institutions1
Between Deference and Defiance: Hierarchical Status Roles and International Conflict1
Who Securitizes? Climate Change Discourse in the United Nations1
Political Institutions and Global Project Finance Loans1
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence1
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence1
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations1
Comrades in Arms? Rebel Leadership Roles and Coups in Rebel Regimes1
Tribalocracy: Tribal Wartime Social Order and Its Transformation in Southern Syria1
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media1
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey1
Theorizing Public Performances for International Negotiations1
The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions1
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain1
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform1
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports1
The Politics of Punishment: Why Dictators Join the International Criminal Court1
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation1
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash1
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War1
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices1
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power1
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures1
The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts1
Corrigendum to: Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics1
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?1
Gender, Internal Armed Conflict, and High Court Decision-Making in Transitioning Societies1
Terrorists versus Rebels: The Strategic Use of Implicit Amnesty in the Peace Process in Mali1
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement1
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations1
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation1
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