Review of International Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of International Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter55
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation53
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics45
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics31
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires23
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation21
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM21
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order21
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance18
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism17
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda17
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations15
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain15
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea15
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority15
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action14
The future is just another past13
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations13
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene13
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power13
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins13
Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace13
Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order13
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach12
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter12
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter12
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy11
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design11
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union11
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society11
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality11
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment11
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights11
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth10
Order-building from the margins: Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea reconsidered through liminality and competing systems10
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa10
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection10
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council9
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law9
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria9
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 20749
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter9
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism8
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan8
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo8
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression8
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine8
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine8
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations8
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age7
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM7
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia7
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM7
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project6
RIS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Front matter6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity6
RIS volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia6
External threats and democratisation: Burma 1988 and South Korea 19876
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making6
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR5
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism5
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation5
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil5
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data5
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations5
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR4
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation4
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics4
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’4
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)4
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)4
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas4
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered4
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world4
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene4
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction4
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance4
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM4
‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses3
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter3
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter3
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf (khalīj) & international society’s expansion3
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics3
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Front matter3
Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America3
Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia3
Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks3
Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties3
A theory of international technology regulation3
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential3
Polycentric governance of transit migration: A relational perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East3
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground3
It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom3
RIS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Restitution of colonial heritage collections: Partial norm implementation in Belgium and the United Kingdom3
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations3
For the archive yet to come3
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work3
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia3
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution3
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live3
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations3
Whose age of anxiety? Provincialising ontological insecurity3
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes3
Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual2
Are propagandists combatants? Analysing the ethical status of propagandists in warfare2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany2
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal?2
Gothic humanitarianism: Moving beyond the securitised approach to migration while embracing fear2
Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero2
American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory2
Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries2
International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria2
The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis – CORRIGENDUM2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
RIS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
The voice of youth? Performative liminality and the ambiguities of political representation in global governance2
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Back matter2
World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige2
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions2
Not anxious enough: The discursive articulation of ontological security in the European Parliament2
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe2
The terrestrial trap: International Relations beyond Earth2
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene2
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon2
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order2
Who forms the mass in mass destruction?2
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security2
Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender1
Heidegger’s heritage: The temporal politics of authenticity, then and now1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption1
Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal1
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics1
History in the plural: Reconfigurations of past–present–future1
Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)1
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age: Emotional registers and geopolitical imaginaries in COVID-19 narratives on Chinese social media1
Destructive plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of childhood malnutrition1
The Black Fantastic in International Relations1
Music gonna teach: Decolonising IR through a musical exploration of knowledge1
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Front matter1
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders1
Green Pan-Africanism: Normative power and the making of a regional sustainability order1
Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance1
Sustaining gender: Natural resource management, conflict prevention, and the UN Sustaining Peace agenda in times of climate catastrophe1
Nuclear weapons, existentialism, and International Relations: Anders, Ballard, and the human condition in the age of extinction1
The justice/participation paradox: Rebel-to-party provisions and the dual performativity of confession and political authority1
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal: Tracing colonial lineages in India’s long wars1
Images of international thinkers1
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-191
Before astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the question of cosmic colonisation1
Thinking freedom relationally: Life projects and care as an ethical orientation for International Studies1
An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism – CORRIGENDUM1
RIS volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
RIS volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan1
State gender and ontological dislocation: Gendering Iran’s revolutionary identity and nuclear behaviour1
Editorial1
On struggle as experiment: Foucault in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial movement intellectuals, for a new approach to theory1
Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question1
Dreaming the plague: Experiencing the pandemic present, experimenting with Anthropocene temporalities1
Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order1
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation1
When criminalisation fails in global politics: Piracy’s unsuccessful recognition as an international crime1
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status1
A house divided: Feminist and conservative NGOs’ legitimacy beliefs about the United Nations1
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