International Studies Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of International Studies Quarterly is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens218
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel59
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations49
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War38
Human Shields and the Gulf War35
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?33
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic31
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe30
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment25
What Does It Mean to Be a Reliable Ally?22
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade21
From Rights of Nations to the Right to Self-Determination20
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Domestic Public Opinion? Presidential Travel Abroad and Approval at Home19
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy18
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training18
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms18
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises17
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival17
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization17
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability15
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China15
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies15
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202014
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism14
The Slave Trade and Military Formation under Colonialism: The Case of French West Africa14
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right14
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid14
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance14
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations13
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries13
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts13
Win-Win Deescalation13
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy12
Strategic Censorship? Public Opinion, Authoritarian Politics, and the International Trade Regime12
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts12
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?12
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures12
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention12
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain12
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping12
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda10
Multinational Military Exercises, the US Combatant Command System, and the Assembling of the American Security Order10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation10
Unraveling Americans’ Selective Sympathies Toward Israelis and Palestinians10
Climate Shocks, Political Conflict, and the Resilience of Democracies10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations10
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform9
Great Power Warfare and the Decline of War Question9
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing9
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?9
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
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent8
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets8
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue8
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion8
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?8
Divide and Conquer: Industry Market Structure, Inter-Firm Rivalry, and Bargaining over Technology8
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves8
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America8
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies8
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment8
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique8
The Gendered Peace Premium8
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare8
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations8
Debating Global International Relations (IR): Philosophical and Meta-Theoretical Perspectives7
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?7
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress7
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations7
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction7
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang7
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations7
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition7
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion7
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict7
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions7
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements7
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities6
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power6
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform6
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts6
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms6
Conserving What’s Left: The International Environmental Regime and Subnational Resistance to Cooperation6
One Theme to Unite Them All? Rhetorical Signals and Unanimity in the UN Security Council6
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding6
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries6
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites6
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War6
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States6
Patterns of Indirect Violence in Conventional War: Territorial Contestation and Civilian Casualties during the War in Ukraine6
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community6
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.06
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash6
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset6
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance6
Political Polarization and Compromise in Secession Politics15
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis5
Balancing Act: Coercion, Terrorism, and Regime Stability5
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions5
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries5
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security5
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance5
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict5
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy5
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis5
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria5
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War5
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time5
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies5
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability5
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections5
Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories5
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics5
Buying Hearts and Minds, Securing Blue Helmets: UN Quick Impact Projects and Violence against Peacekeepers5
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict5
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo5
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy5
Revisiting Our Understanding of Major Power Diplomacy: The Causes and Consequences of High-Level Diplomatic Visits with China, 1960–20205
Military Exercises and Network Effects5
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership5
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?4
Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design4
Treasure Troves: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Using the SWIFT Dataset4
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes4
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival4
What Relations Matter?4
Covert Assignments: Undercover Infiltration and the Repression of Protests4
The Effect of Racial Resentment and Out-Group Cues on Support for Climate Policy4
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic4
Trials and Triangulations: Analyzing Aggregation Sensitivity in Event Data on Political Violence4
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients4
Mind over Metal: Public Opinion on Autonomous Weapons in the United States, Brazil, Germany, and China4
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders4
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach4
Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups4
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises4
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes4
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20044
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons4
Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions4
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality4
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation4
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea4
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea4
Telling Stories of International Relations4
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics4
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment4
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies4
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland4
Can International Advocacy Rally Public Support for Human Rights Sanctions? Experimental Evidence from the United States4
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions3
Feminist Realism: Jean Bethke Elshtain and Armed Civic Virtue3
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices3
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations3
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid3
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies3
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem3
Divisions at Home, Broken Promises Abroad? How Domestic Politics Shapes the United States’ Nuclear Credibility3
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries3
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict3
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies3
Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations3
“The many metaphors of silence: Conceptualizing silence as a collaborative structure”3
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands3
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS3
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience3
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda3
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis3
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC3
Adaptation and Nongovernmental Organizations: An Ecological Approach for Understanding NGO–State Interactions in the Struggle to End Violence against Women3
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups3
From Ideology to Goals: A New Conceptualization and Measurement of Political Alignment in Rebel Alliances3
Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes3
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?3
Theorizing Norm Stagnation and the Evolution of Domestic Norm Compliance3
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller3
Fortune or Fear? State Legislators’ Responses to Chinese Ownership of US Agricultural Land3
Reconnecting Evidence and Theory: Building Knowledge from the Ground Up3
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence3
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance3
From Differentiation to Nexus Governance—Dynamics of Change in the UN’s Inter-Institutional Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism3
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments3
Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes3
Into the Fray: Explaining State Support for Non-Violent Resistance Movements Abroad3
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy3
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey3
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations3
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights2
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists2
Preserve, Pressure, Protect, and Peel: The US–China Rivalry and the Politics of Vaccine Provision2
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement2
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems2
Government Choices of Debt Instruments2
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government2
Vicious Cycle: Violations of Foreign Nationals’ Rights among CAT Countries2
The Art of Brexit2
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation2
Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations2
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds2
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War2
Do Alliance Abandonment and Coercion Increase Support for Nuclear Weapons? An Elite Survey in NATO2
Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk: Project Features and Policy Change in International Organizations2
“Peacekeeping Proneness”: Which Type of International System Is Most Likely to Enhance the Supply of Peacekeepers?2
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations2
Innovation and Interdependence: Evidence from Gene-Editing Technology2
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice2
Unnamed but Reassuring: Quasi-Secrecy and Public Support for Foreign Policy2
Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter2
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis2
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill2
Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks2
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Race and International Organizations2
Alliances and Civil War Intervention2
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–20122
Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars2
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India2
Blowback: When China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions2
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence2
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies2
Correction to: Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons2
The Consequences of Violence for Women’s Candidacy in Legislative Elections: Insights from a Global Analysis2
Footloose Capital in the Land of America First: Populism, Nationalism and Mass Preferences Over Corporate Tax2
Individuals, Disaggregation of the State, and Negotiation Tactics: Evidence from the European Union2
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows2
Testing Allies Through Conflict: Loyalty, Adverse Selection, and War2
Generalizable Precedents at the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization: An Empirical Examination of the Busch–Pelc Conjecture2
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity2
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements2
Is the Bad News about Compliance Bad News about Human Rights? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights2
The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas2
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship2
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