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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens187
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training98
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel44
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations44
Human Shields and the Gulf War32
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War32
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade29
What Does It Mean to Be a Reliable Ally?28
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?28
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe27
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic27
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Domestic Public Opinion? Presidential Travel Abroad and Approval at Home25
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment25
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy23
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms21
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises19
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival19
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization18
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China17
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents17
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid17
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism16
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies15
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right14
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202014
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition14
Win-Win Deescalation14
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies14
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries14
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts14
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus14
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability14
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?13
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies13
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention13
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy12
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations12
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping11
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts11
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation10
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing10
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations10
Multinational Military Exercises, the US Combatant Command System, and the Assembling of the American Security Order10
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports10
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict9
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration9
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements9
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households8
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status8
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
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America8
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies8
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case8
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique8
The Gendered Peace Premium8
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention8
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations8
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies8
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves8
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?8
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
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion8
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements8
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations7
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities7
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion7
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction7
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict7
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?7
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?7
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition7
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress7
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation6
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War6
Conserving What’s Left: The International Environmental Regime and Subnational Resistance to Cooperation6
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power6
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding6
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis6
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States6
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang6
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society6
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community6
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology6
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics6
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms6
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions6
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance6
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media6
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform6
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations6
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict5
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War5
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics5
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.05
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians5
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
Telling Stories of International Relations5
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership5
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation5
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time5
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria5
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis5
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry5
Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups5
Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories5
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security5
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts5
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy5
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 Dataset5
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo5
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability5
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions5
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections5
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries5
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance5
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment4
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes4
Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design4
The Geography of Separatist Violence4
Military Exercises and Network Effects4
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea4
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic4
Can International Advocacy Rally Public Support for Human Rights Sanctions? Experimental Evidence from the United States4
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes4
Covert Assignments: Undercover Infiltration and the Repression of Protests4
Treasure Troves: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Using the SWIFT Dataset4
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea4
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach4
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
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump4
Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions4
Trials and Triangulations: Analyzing Aggregation Sensitivity in Event Data on Political Violence4
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?4
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics4
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises4
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies4
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival4
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation4
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons4
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients4
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality4
What Relations Matter?4
Divisions at Home, Broken Promises Abroad? How Domestic Politics Shapes the United States’ Nuclear Credibility3
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy3
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations3
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations3
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict3
Theorizing Norm Stagnation and the Evolution of Domestic Norm Compliance3
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments3
Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes3
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds3
Into the Fray: Explaining State Support for Non-Violent Resistance Movements Abroad3
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda3
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller3
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies3
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience3
Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes3
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands3
Fortune or Fear? State Legislators’ Responses to Chinese Ownership of US Agricultural Land3
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland3
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20043
Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations3
Reconnecting Evidence and Theory: Building Knowledge from the Ground Up3
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis3
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness3
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices3
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance3
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey3
Alliances and Civil War Intervention3
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions3
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem3
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS3
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups3
The Effect of Racial Resentment and Out-Group Cues on Support for Climate Policy3
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies3
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence3
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?3
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries3
From Differentiation to Nexus Governance—Dynamics of Change in the UN’s Inter-Institutional Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism3
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid3
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC3
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War2
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence2
Lacanian Biopolitics of COVID-192
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?2
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures2
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations2
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship2
Blowback: When China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions2
Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks2
“Peacekeeping Proneness”: Which Type of International System Is Most Likely to Enhance the Supply of Peacekeepers?2
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–20152
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows2
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment2
Innovation and Interdependence: Evidence from Gene-Editing Technology2
The Consequences of Violence for Women’s Candidacy in Legislative Elections: Insights from a Global Analysis2
Government Choices of Debt Instruments2
The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas2
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy2
From Bullets to Balance Sheets: How Military Involvement in the Economy Shapes Leader Survival2
The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–20202
Unnamed but Reassuring: Quasi-Secrecy and Public Support for Foreign Policy2
Do Alliance Abandonment and Coercion Increase Support for Nuclear Weapons? An Elite Survey in NATO2
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance2
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
Individuals, Disaggregation of the State, and Negotiation Tactics: Evidence from the European Union2
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage2
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement2
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies2
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India2
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill2
Understanding Preferences over Borders2
The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions2
Walking the Walk, Not Talking the Talk: Project Features and Policy Change in International Organizations2
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists2
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights2
Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter2
The Art of Brexit2
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation2
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis2
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements2
Race and International Organizations2
Adaptation and Nongovernmental Organizations: An Ecological Approach for Understanding NGO–State Interactions in the Struggle to End Violence against Women2
Correction to: Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons2
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