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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens165
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China88
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel42
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?31
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations31
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War26
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy25
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic25
Human Shields and the Gulf War25
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training22
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194522
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment21
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade21
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe21
Win-Win Deescalation17
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival17
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents17
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms17
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202017
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism16
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization16
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China15
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries15
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies15
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance14
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid14
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China14
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability13
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition13
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises13
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies13
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force13
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts13
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention12
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference11
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy11
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping11
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts10
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization8
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?8
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment8
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework8
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies7
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue7
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence7
The Gendered Peace Premium7
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status7
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households7
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets7
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique7
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements6
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion6
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict6
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations6
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations6
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress6
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society6
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention6
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare6
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations6
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion6
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash5
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War5
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.05
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics5
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power5
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media5
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites5
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community5
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions5
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis5
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology5
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding5
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria4
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea4
Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories4
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy4
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy4
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries4
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea4
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset4
Military Exercises and Network Effects4
Telling Stories of International Relations4
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict4
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises4
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival4
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict4
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians4
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections4
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes4
The Geography of Separatist Violence4
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies4
Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups4
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability4
Is It Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German–Israeli Relations4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation4
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry4
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance4
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security4
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach4
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20043
What Relations Matter?3
Treasure Troves: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Using the SWIFT Dataset3
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump3
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict3
The Effect of Racial Resentment and Out-Group Cues on Support for Climate Policy3
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons3
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations3
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic3
Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes3
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics3
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands3
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad3
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies3
Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations3
Covert Assignments: Undercover Infiltration and the Repression of Protests3
Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions3
Theorizing Norm Stagnation and the Evolution of Domestic Norm Compliance3
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality3
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups3
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation3
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy3
Can International Advocacy Rally Public Support for Human Rights Sanctions? Experimental Evidence from the United States3
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment3
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem3
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?3
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland3
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes3
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations3
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients3
The Art of Brexit2
Into the Fray: Explaining State Support for Non-Violent Resistance Movements Abroad2
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage2
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems2
From Differentiation to Nexus Governance—Dynamics of Change in the UN’s Inter-Institutional Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism2
Ideological Topography in World Politics: A Guide to the End of the Unipolar-Homogeneous Moment2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa2
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War2
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities2
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC2
Reconnecting Evidence and Theory: Building Knowledge from the Ground Up2
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment2
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions2
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–20152
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS2
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies2
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis2
Alliances and Civil War Intervention2
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill2
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid2
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies2
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice2
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis2
Do Alliance Abandonment and Coercion Increase Support for Nuclear Weapons? An Elite Survey in NATO2
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds2
Individuals, Disaggregation of the State, and Negotiation Tactics: Evidence from the European Union2
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller2
Vicious Cycle: Violations of Foreign Nationals’ Rights among CAT Countries2
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies2
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?2
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation2
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey2
Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter2
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries2
Lacanian Biopolitics of COVID-192
Race and International Organizations2
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness2
When Do Diplomatic Protests Boomerang? Foreign Protests against US Arms Sales and Domestic Public Support in Taiwan2
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–20122
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements2
Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of US Wars2
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance2
Is the Bad News about Compliance Bad News about Human Rights? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights2
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda2
Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks2
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence2
The Effect of Terrorism on Income Inequality2
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
Generalizable Precedents at the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization: An Empirical Examination of the Busch–Pelc Conjecture2
Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes2
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience2
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
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