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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter43
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics32
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM28
The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance24
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation23
RIS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter21
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics21
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires20
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order20
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance20
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation20
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism20
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda19
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations19
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain18
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations18
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority18
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action18
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins16
The agnopolitics of refoulement: Migration diplomacy and the un/knowing of regional refugee deportation to Syria16
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms16
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach16
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power15
The future is just another past15
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter14
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter14
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design12
Order-building from the margins: Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea reconsidered through liminality and competing systems12
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy11
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania11
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society10
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union10
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection10
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa10
Unknowing the future: Speculative foresight in international institutions and the unexpected ‘origins’ of expertise9
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights9
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo9
The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, anti-imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter9
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth9
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 20748
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law8
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine8
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council8
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations8
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan8
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism8
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression7
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest7
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia7
Neither convergence nor resistance: A hybridization framework for norm evolution in the digital age7
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
External threats and democratisation: Burma 1988 and South Korea 19877
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age7
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM7
‘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
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)6
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil6
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations6
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making6
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia6
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction6
RIS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Front matter6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity6
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation6
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR6
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism5
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics5
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered5
The politics of partisan memory: Last letters of anti-fascist resistance in Italy and France (1943–2003)5
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation5
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter5
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance5
Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics5
Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia5
RIS volume 51 issue 6 Cover and Front matter5
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world5
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene5
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM5
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons5
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’5
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution5
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf ( khalīj ) & international society’s expansion4
Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders4
A theory of international technology regulation4
The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence – CORRIGENDUM4
Epistemic inertia in human rights expert bodies: Continuity amid pluralisation4
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics4
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work4
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Restitution of colonial heritage collections: Partial norm implementation in Belgium and the United Kingdom4
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations4
RIS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Front matter4
Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia4
For the archive yet to come4
Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks3
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations3
It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom3
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes3
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal?3
Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero3
The voice of youth? Performative liminality and the ambiguities of political representation in global governance3
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Back matter3
Gothic humanitarianism: Moving beyond the securitised approach to migration while embracing fear3
Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America3
Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries3
Motioning the security–migration nexus: Life-in-motion and the (counter)mapping of movement3
‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses3
World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige3
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany3
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon3
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions3
Whose age of anxiety? Provincialising ontological insecurity3
Who forms the mass in mass destruction?3
Ad hoc coalitions across time: Shaping international cooperation amid political rivalry3
Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties3
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order3
Relationality and ‘peace listening’ in the Maputo Accord process in Mozambique3
Not anxious enough: The discursive articulation of ontological security in the European Parliament3
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics2
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders2
When criminalisation fails in global politics: Piracy’s unsuccessful recognition as an international crime2
Images of international thinkers2
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe2
Music gonna teach: Decolonising IR through a musical exploration of knowledge2
RIS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual2
The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis – CORRIGENDUM2
The Black Fantastic in International Relations2
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Front matter2
Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question2
Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order2
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status2
Are propagandists combatants? Analysing the ethical status of propagandists in warfare2
International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria2
The terrestrial trap: International Relations beyond Earth2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security2
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-192
Before astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the question of cosmic colonisation2
Locating agency in normative change: Bohuslav Ečer, the UNWCC, and individual criminal responsibility for aggression2
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)2
The justice/participation paradox: Rebel-to-party provisions and the dual performativity of confession and political authority2
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation2
Thinking freedom relationally: Life projects and care as an ethical orientation for International Studies2
Contested sites of solidarity: Refugee simulations as simulacra2
American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
A house divided: Feminist and conservative NGOs’ legitimacy beliefs about the United Nations2
Destructive plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of childhood malnutrition2
Conspiracy theory as counter-securitization: Contestation and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic2
RIS volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs1
IR's Roads to Freedom: Rereading Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy as an International Relations text1
Political-epistemic disciplining in global governance: Producing ‘global’ Indigenous knowledges1
A contextual approach to decolonising IR: Interrogating knowledge production hierarchies1
Performative socialization in world politics1
Heartfelt truths: Towards an existentialist ethics of war1
Instrumentalising Islam: The religious soft power strategies of China, Russia, and the US1
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan1
RIS volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Sustaining gender: Natural resource management, conflict prevention, and the UN Sustaining Peace agenda in times of climate catastrophe1
‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption1
The intimate public as a decolonial lens: “cripping” affect, nationalism and imperial violence1
Nuclear weapons, existentialism, and International Relations: Anders, Ballard, and the human condition in the age of extinction1
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-19 – CORRIGENDUM1
On struggle as experiment: Foucault in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial movement intellectuals, for a new approach to theory1
AI and the future of IR: Disentangling flesh-and-blood, institutional, and synthetic moral agency in world politics1
Green Pan-Africanism: Normative power and the making of a regional sustainability order1
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action - ERRATUM1
Race and systemic crises in international politics: An agenda for pluralistic scholarship1
Postsocialism in International Relations: Method and critique1
RIS volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Better safe than sorry: Why great powers accommodate high-value hedgers1
Heidegger’s heritage: The temporal politics of authenticity, then and now1
On the horizon: The futures of IR1
The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality – CORRIGENDUM1
History in the plural: Reconfigurations of past–present–future1
Visual (data) observation in International Relations: Attentiveness, close description, and the politics of seeing differently1
RIS volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Between the national and the personal: The interactional production of agency in diplomacy1
Dreaming the plague: Experiencing the pandemic present, experimenting with Anthropocene temporalities1
Emerging norms and international change: The responsibility not to veto and its impact on the Security Council1
Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender1
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation1
Post-growth peacebuilding1
Post-growth theories in a global world: A comparative analysis1
War of movement: The political economy of conflict escalation in Colombia, 1990–81
Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory1
Introduction: Racialised violence in global politics1
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal: Tracing colonial lineages in India’s long wars1
RIS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963) – ERRATUM1
Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal1
State gender and ontological dislocation: Gendering Iran’s revolutionary identity and nuclear behaviour1
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Front matter1
Editorial1
Meditations on ‘international friendship’: Situating twinning in global struggles for solidarity, recognition, and restitution1
Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea1
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