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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?68
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China48
Human Shields and the Gulf War35
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations34
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade33
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War32
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment29
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194529
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel26
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic22
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training21
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy21
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival20
Win-Win Deescalation20
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies20
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition19
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right18
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China18
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202017
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies17
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism16
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid15
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms15
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain14
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War14
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force14
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises14
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts14
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention13
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping13
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations13
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion12
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference12
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War11
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?11
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus11
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy11
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation10
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports10
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance10
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures10
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements10
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace9
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households9
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent8
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence8
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status8
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization8
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing8
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly8
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform8
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?8
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets7
The Gendered Peace Premium7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies7
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?7
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence7
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion7
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction6
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention6
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress5
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets5
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China5
Democracy and the Transnational Dimensions of Low-Level Conflict and State Repression5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries5
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset4
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics4
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict4
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset4
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis4
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash4
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts4
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry4
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation4
Gender, Internal Armed Conflict, and High Court Decision-Making in Transitioning Societies4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy4
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments4
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria4
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding4
[W]hat Lies Beneath: Using Latent Networks to Improve Spatial Predictions3
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries3
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance3
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances3
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset3
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival3
What Relations Matter?3
Deterrence in the Cyber Realm: Public versus Private Cyber Capacity3
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies3
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security3
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Is It Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German–Israeli Relations3
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections3
The Geography of Separatist Violence3
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes3
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force3
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises3
Military Exercises and Network Effects3
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism3
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict3
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy3
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability3
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach3
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea3
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics3
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea3
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20042
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation2
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic2
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons2
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality2
Between Deference and Defiance: Hierarchical Status Roles and International Conflict2
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations2
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC2
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies2
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings2
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence2
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad2
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?2
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump2
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?2
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict2
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem2
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China2
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients2
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Arabic Twitter Sentiment toward ISIS and the United States2
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments2
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders2
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?2
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia2
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations2
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries2
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions2
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS2
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups2
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes2
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience2
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa2
Emigration and Political Contestation2
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Refugee Flows, Refugee Rights, and Political Violence2
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification2
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey2
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment2
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid1
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations1
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis1
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights1
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity1
Race and International Organizations1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage1
Blowback: When China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions1
The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions1
Innovation and Interdependence: Evidence from Gene-Editing Technology1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions1
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South1
The WTO as Multilateral Diffusion Hub: Institutional Learning in WTO Disputes and the Design of Preferential Trade Agreements1
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds1
The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions1
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War1
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government1
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies1
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?1
When Do Diplomatic Protests Boomerang? Foreign Protests against US Arms Sales and Domestic Public Support in Taiwan1
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations1
Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities1
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations1
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–20201
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance1
Understanding Preferences over Borders1
Chinese Firms in the US–China Trade War: Decoupling through Reshoring?1
Great Power Intervention and War1
Alliances and Civil War Intervention1
Love, Money, or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits1
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements1
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement1
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance1
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows1
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment1
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis1
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–20121
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy1
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India1
How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations1
“Peacekeeping Proneness”: Which Type of International System Is Most Likely to Enhance the Supply of Peacekeepers?1
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?1
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists1
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures1
IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies1
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects1
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda1
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents: Self-Legitimation in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities1
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities1
Correction to: Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons1
Sexual Violence by the State: The Role of Political Institutions in Sexual Violence Perpetration1
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence1
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