International Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of International Politics is 0. 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
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage29
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states23
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do21
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China16
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality13
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics12
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy11
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery11
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security11
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war11
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy11
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments10
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China10
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war9
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order9
Regional powers and the politics of scale9
Rethinking multilateralism: domestic incentives of multilateral aid9
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO8
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy8
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect7
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy7
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?7
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?7
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan7
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty7
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources6
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia6
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia6
The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment6
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland6
Director, Global Summitry Project, teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto6
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations6
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states6
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies6
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war6
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation6
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine5
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-195
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom5
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth5
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation5
Russia, NATO and the view from the East5
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation5
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea5
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security5
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 19615
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’5
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society4
Reflections: the UK after Brexit4
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice4
A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions4
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)4
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control4
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’4
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea4
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments4
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty4
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?4
Between a rock and a hard place: small states, vulnerabilities and Greek foreign policy4
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd4
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century4
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact4
Signaling virtue: legitimacy, reputation, and NATO’s strategic communications during the war in Ukraine4
Love, hope, and hopelessness3
No exit: why U.S. policy on Europe in counterproductive and what to do about it3
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan3
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent3
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger3
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science3
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?3
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status3
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power3
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg3
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century3
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations3
Israel/Palestine: political futures3
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy3
From Kantian friendship to Benthamite partnership: transatlantic relations under Donald Trump3
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu3
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy3
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism3
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy3
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored2
Hierarchy and status: a response2
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach2
The perceived legitimacy of post-war rights: the case of Kuwaiti resistance2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account2
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments2
Fear the fear: the historical analogies of COVID-19 in US–China relations2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation2
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states2
Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad2
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon2
The far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present2
Capital, race and space: Britain’s ‘elsewhere’2
The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions2
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war2
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact2
Three histories of the system of states2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right2
An apex of the racialization of the world2
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine2
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century2
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe2
Consolidating power over others and Grigorescu’s theory in Restraining Power2
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific2
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction2
Ontological (In)security of majorities: introduction2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race2
Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift2
China’s efforts to increase discourse power in the Arctic and Antarctica through fisheries management2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?2
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights2
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness2
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’2
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives1
The neoliberal roots of authoritarian protectionism1
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures1
The cascading dynamics of informal institutions: organizational processes and governance implications1
Diplomatic complexity and long-tailed distributions: the function of non-strategic bilateral relations1
“Unifying themes” versus “connections” between domestic and international politics1
Polarization, casualty sensitivity, and military operations: evidence from a survey experiment1
Race in IR: toward empirical study1
The study of international society after Watson1
What Watson can teach us about war and order: revisiting The Evolution of International Society1
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school1
The science of world order1
Reason and mechanism of U.S. affecting security situation of “Indo-Pacific”: analysis based on perspective of intervention1
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity1
Identity, status and role in UK foreign policy: Brexit and beyond1
White middle-class heterosexual cisgender women’s stories in International Relations: anonymity, whitewashing, and our cleaning labor1
Dissecting pandemic-cum-wartime authoritarianism1
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: a conversation1
Alliances with Chinese characteristics? The contents and rationale of China’s strategic partnerships1
Ontological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?1
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure1
(Re)theorizing hybrid governance in the Global South: chieftaincy’s resilience and implications for post-pandemic political order in Ghana1
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect1
The ASEAN way and the changing security environment: navigating challenges to informality and centrality1
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School1
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity1
Restraining power through courts1
The regional powers research program: a new way forward1
War, diplomacy, and more war: why did the Minsk agreements fail?1
Writing for justice, reading for absence1
Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh1
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation1
Murdered and missing: description, art, and human rights1
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today1
Post-war, past Russia: Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, regional unpeace and the imperatives of post-war European security (re)ordering1
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy1
The Eastern Partnership initiative: challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities1
Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization1
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission1
Correction to: Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights1
Expand without dispersing: institutional identity construction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the context of the Russia–Ukraine conflict1
Authoritarian Norm Contestation and International Broadcasting: RT’ s norm contestation strategy during the Ukraine Crisis1
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America1
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations1
Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett1
Psychology as a system component: the deterrence logic of communication in China1
Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa1
Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance1
NATO after the invasion of Ukraine: how the shock changed alliance cohesion1
Political economy of the US-OPEC tussle in the global oil market: understanding Nigeria’s revenue and debt crises1
Unsettling the Hamas taboo: fragments, narrative and the politics of exposure1
Writing our stories with care and hope0
Competing powers and global leadership in the 21st century: can two rivals foster hegemonic stability?0
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan0
Analyzing the shift to the far right: the Austrian case0
The US–China economic tensions and China’s growing influence in East Asia: Japan’s eclectic approach to the free and open Indo-Pacific0
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China0
Correction to: The impact of party conflict on executive ascendancy and congressional abdication in US foreign policy0
How do middle powers act? Turkey’s foreign policy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine0
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging0
Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism0
Always part of a vision? The US and the Israel–Palestinian dispute under George W. Bush and after0
The inevitable non-performance of the Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: how regime type matters0
Settler colonialism, memory politics, and the Trump–Netanyahu deal0
Turkey’s alignment with Qatar—regional and domestic dynamics in an era of multipolarity0
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine0
Homo-humanitarianism: queering the Afghan crisis and evacuations0
Redefining the status quo state: collective support, order-maintenance, and self-restraint0
Putting Discourses About the War in Ukraine on a Map: How Different is Everyone’s Story?0
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’: authoritarian protectionism and the end of neoliberal hegemony0
Geopolitical dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a study of states’ media footprint0
Rooted globalism0
To trust or not to trust? ‘Exit’ approaches in EU citizens’ attitudes after Brexit0
The will to do good and the clash of practices: understanding Sudanese sanctions relief0
State–society relations and foreign policy change: suggesting a Gramscian method to link the national with the international0
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance0
Strategic alignment and power transition: examining Iran’s proxy motives and China’s geopolitics in the Middle East0
EU identity in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian war: a constructivist analysis of the strategic compass for security and defence0
On the complexities of Christopher Coker and Nicholas Rengger0
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism0
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption0
Dark corners of alliance politics: alliance theory concepts and great power competition0
The constitutional context of exceptional courts and state repression0
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’0
Unlocking Locke for international relations0
Rebel actors and legitimacy building0
Why the dissemination of health information via government intervention is enhanced by a Culture-Centered Approach0
The relevance and impact of the EaP in Moldova: why local perceptions matter?0
International LGBTQ+  politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?0
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history0
Tracing the origins of the new authoritarian protectionism0
US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean: the return of great power politics in a changing regional environment0
The Ukraine question: how should the south respond?0
The reputational consequences of polarization for American foreign policy: evidence from the US-UK bilateral relationship0
Special issue: the European Union and its Eastern Partnership neighbours—a framework to evaluate performance0
Twenty years after Iraq: evaluating the legacy and impact of George W. Bush’s foreign policies0
Unequal justice under law0
Defence industrial power: understanding the UK’s post-Brexit role0
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics0
The UK ‘othered’? External perceptions of Brexit0
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications0
Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: Australian conceptions of the China challenge from Hawke to Howard0
Perception and practices: examining the influence of Chinese media exchanges on West African journalists0
The refrain of settler-colonialism in Decolonising Palestine0
Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–19450
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran0
Response0
The concept of ‘self-reliance’ in national defense in South Korea: a study of its interrelationships with the USA since the late 1960s0
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach0
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and changes in MEPs’ conceptions of security0
Havana, Moscow and international crises: implications for asymmetry0
Our rule is only temporary: promises of the military after a coup and their influence on domestic and international reactions0
On dreamworlds, declinism and difference0
Assembling international society0
Turkey’s foreign policy toward Israel: co-existing of ideology and pragmatism in the age of global and regional shifts0
On the limits of empire0
Israeli foreign policy towards Turkey since 2011: from adverse asymmetry to equivalence?0
Global capitalism in/and the global south—introduction to the discussion of Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries0
Mongolia–Central Asia relations and the implications of the rise of China on its future evolution0
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR0
Dark money, US security guarantees and the twisting of allied arms0
The cause of congressional oversight effort in US arms sale plans0
Correction to: Let sleeping bears lie: an analysis of the factors behind Indonesia’s response to the Russo–Ukrainian war and its implications for the Indo‑Pacific region0
China’s mask and vaccine diplomacy in Latin America: a success story?0
Language, race, civilization: What is (and isn’t) Anglo-America?0
Let sleeping bears lie: an analysis of the factors behind Indonesia’s response to the Russo–Ukrainian war and its implications for the Indo-Pacific region0
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa0
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