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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter48
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation46
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism43
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea28
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance23
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics21
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics18
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires17
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda17
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM17
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation16
RIS volume 47 issue 5 Cover and Back matter15
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order15
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain14
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations14
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action14
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority14
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene13
Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order13
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power13
Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace13
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins12
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations12
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach12
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter11
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection11
The future is just another past11
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy11
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter11
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society11
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights10
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design10
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania10
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment10
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth10
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union10
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council9
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter9
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality9
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan9
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine8
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations8
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine8
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 20748
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo8
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest8
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law8
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism8
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression8
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age7
The non-anthropocentric informational agents: Codes, software, and the logic of emergence in cybersecurity7
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM7
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia7
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity6
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM6
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project6
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making6
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data5
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene5
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR5
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation5
RIS volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)5
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)5
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR5
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil4
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction4
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics4
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons4
RIS volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance3
Polycentric governance of transit migration: A relational perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East3
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM3
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’3
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter3
Radical Islam in the Western Academy3
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution3
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf (khalīj) & international society’s expansion3
Recrafting ontology3
A theory of international technology regulation3
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas3
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics3
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential3
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live3
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered3
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work3
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground3
Gothic humanitarianism: Beyond the securitised approach to migration while embracing fear2
Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America2
‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses2
For the archive yet to come2
RIS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Whose age of anxiety? Provincialising ontological insecurity2
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual2
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal?2
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon2
Who forms the mass in mass destruction?2
Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries2
Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia2
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes2
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom2
Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory2
Not anxious enough: The discursive articulation of ontological security in the European Parliament2
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Back matter2
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security2
Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks2
Restitution of colonial heritage collections: Partial norm implementation in Belgium and the United Kingdom2
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations2
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics2
World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige2
RIS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene2
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany2
RIS volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism – CORRIGENDUM1
History in the plural: Reconfigurations of past–present–future1
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age: Emotional registers and geopolitical imaginaries in COVID-19 narratives on Chinese social media1
‘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
The terrestrial trap: International Relations beyond Earth1
The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis – CORRIGENDUM1
Dreaming the plague: Experiencing the pandemic present, experimenting with Anthropocene temporalities1
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation1
On the horizon: The futures of IR1
RIS volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation1
Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)1
Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption1
The Black Fantastic in International Relations1
Nuclear weapons, existentialism, and International Relations: Anders, Ballard, and the human condition in the age of extinction1
International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria1
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status1
Counter-populist performances of (in)security: Feminist resistance in the face of right-wing populism in Poland1
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders1
Editorial1
RIS volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963) – ERRATUM1
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Front matter1
Green Pan-Africanism: Normative power and the making of a regional sustainability order1
Before astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the question of cosmic colonisation1
On struggle as experiment: Foucault in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial movement intellectuals, for a new approach to theory1
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan1
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics1
Heidegger’s heritage: The temporal politics of authenticity, then and now1
Images of international thinkers1
Sustaining gender: Natural resource management, conflict prevention, and the UN Sustaining Peace agenda in times of climate catastrophe1
Thinking freedom relationally: Life projects and care as an ethical orientation for International Studies1
Destructive plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of childhood malnutrition1
Are propagandists combatants? Analysing the ethical status of propagandists in warfare1
Music gonna teach: Decolonising IR through a musical exploration of knowledge1
Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea1
Post-growth theories in a global world: A comparative analysis1
Post-growth peacebuilding1
When criminalisation fails in global politics: Piracy’s unsuccessful recognition as an international crime1
State gender and ontological dislocation: Gendering Iran’s revolutionary identity and nuclear behaviour1
Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order1
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal: Tracing colonial lineages in India’s long wars1
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