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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage33
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 do18
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality17
Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism14
Correction to: How closely aligned are China and Russia? Measuring strategic cooperation in IR12
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China11
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy11
Sanctioned terror: economic sanctions and more effective terrorism10
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war10
Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control9
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy9
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery9
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security8
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments8
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war8
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy8
Introduction: Narendra Modi and India’s foreign policy8
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China8
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect7
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO7
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy7
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies7
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states7
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty7
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?7
The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment7
Regional powers and the politics of scale7
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources7
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order7
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?7
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan6
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland6
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations6
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation5
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia5
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-195
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war5
Director, Global Summitry Project, teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto5
Finding the water’s edge: when negative partisanship influences foreign policy attitudes5
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security5
Narendra Modi government’s neighbourhood policy5
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia5
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom5
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’4
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 19614
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation4
A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions4
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society4
Russia, NATO and the view from the East4
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation4
Blurred lines: the convergence of military and civilian uses of AI & data use and its impact on liberal democracy4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control4
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth4
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine4
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea4
Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations3
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus3
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice3
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact3
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent3
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?3
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)3
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups3
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty3
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd3
Reflections: the UK after Brexit3
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?3
Transitional justice and small states: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tunisia3
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan3
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism3
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments3
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy3
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea3
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations3
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy3
Love, hope, and hopelessness3
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger3
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg3
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century3
Three histories of the system of states2
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states2
Whose (in)security counts in crisis? Selection categories in Germany’s humanitarian admission programmes before and after 20152
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy2
Fear the fear: the historical analogies of COVID-19 in US–China relations2
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power2
An apex of the racialization of the world2
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation2
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account2
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society2
Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad2
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’2
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation2
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race2
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy2
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy2
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war2
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?2
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine2
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact2
Historical analogies and general theoretical schemes in the study on contemporary international relations: anachronism or opportunity?1
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction1
Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance1
Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift1
The regional powers research program: a new way forward1
The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions1
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments1
The Eastern Partnership initiative: challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities1
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored1
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America1
Correction to: Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights1
The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue1
Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization1
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect1
‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf1
Post-war, past Russia: Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, regional unpeace and the imperatives of post-war European security (re)ordering1
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school1
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: a conversation1
Race in IR: toward empirical study1
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives1
The perceived legitimacy of post-war rights: the case of Kuwaiti resistance1
AI-enabled remote warfare: sustaining the western Warfare paradigm?1
Imperial policy of the Russian Federation versus cohesion and coherence of NATO’s new strategic concept1
Institutional strategies in regional role location process: ASEAN, China, and great power management in ADMM Plus1
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach1
Hierarchy and status: a response1
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy1
Capital, race and space: Britain’s ‘elsewhere’1
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity1
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation1
Authoritarian Norm Contestation and International Broadcasting: RT’ s norm contestation strategy during the Ukraine Crisis1
Not so remote drone warfare1
Homogenizing nationalists, budding fascists, and truculent exceptionalists: the end of world order in the Indo-Pacific1
The study of international society after Watson1
The ASEAN way and the changing security environment: navigating challenges to informality and centrality1
Polarization, casualty sensitivity, and military operations: evidence from a survey experiment1
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations1
Psychology as a system component: the deterrence logic of communication in China1
The far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present1
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today1
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific1
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures1
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love1
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe1
What Watson can teach us about war and order: revisiting The Evolution of International Society1
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure1
Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett1
Writing for justice, reading for absence1
The cascading dynamics of informal institutions: organizational processes and governance implications1
International law is dead, long live international law: the state practice of drone strikes1
Diplomatic complexity and long-tailed distributions: the function of non-strategic bilateral relations1
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission1
Modi sticks to India’s nuclear path1
The untold story of civil society organizations’ contribution to peacebuilding in Lesotho1
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School1
Ontological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?1
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity1
Joint defence as a European public good0
Influencing the United States: is the game worth the candle for junior allies?0
Dark money, US security guarantees and the twisting of allied arms0
Our rule is only temporary: promises of the military after a coup and their influence on domestic and international reactions0
The future of global governance after the pandemic crisis: what challenges will the BRICS face?0
Small states, great expectations: Portuguese foreign policy toward Turkish accession to the European Union0
The relevance and impact of the EaP in Moldova: why local perceptions matter?0
Tracing the origins of the new authoritarian protectionism0
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history0
The cause of congressional oversight effort in US arms sale plans0
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China0
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine0
Defence industrial power: understanding the UK’s post-Brexit role0
Special issue: the European Union and its Eastern Partnership neighbours—a framework to evaluate performance0
Turkey’s foreign policy toward Israel: co-existing of ideology and pragmatism in the age of global and regional shifts0
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan0
The liquidification of international politics and Trump’s (un)diplomacy on Twitter0
Twenty years after Iraq: evaluating the legacy and impact of George W. Bush’s foreign policies0
Networks of order in East Asia: Beyond hegemonic theories of the Liberal International Order0
Revisionism revisited: developing a typology for classifying Russia and other revisionist powers0
Language, race, civilization: What is (and isn’t) Anglo-America?0
State–society relations and foreign policy change: suggesting a Gramscian method to link the national with the international0
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
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran0
China’s role conflict in norm contestations: economic security, anti-de-risking, and Dual Circulation Strategy0
Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–19450
Unequal justice under law0
Homo-humanitarianism: queering the Afghan crisis and evacuations0
The constitutional context of exceptional courts and state repression0
Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism0
Havana, Moscow and international crises: implications for asymmetry0
The inevitable non-performance of the Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: how regime type matters0
Public diplomacy and regional leadership struggles: the case of Saudi Arabia0
US–Taliban peace deal and regional powers as potential spoilers: Iran as a case study0
On dreamworlds, declinism and difference0
Assembling international society0
Settler colonialism, memory politics, and the Trump–Netanyahu deal0
China’s mask and vaccine diplomacy in Latin America: a success story?0
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging0
Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation0
Correction to: The impact of party conflict on executive ascendancy and congressional abdication in US foreign policy0
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications0
Has BRICS lost its appeal? The foreign policy value added of the group0
EU identity in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian war: a constructivist analysis of the strategic compass for security and defence0
The reputational consequences of polarization for American foreign policy: evidence from the US-UK bilateral relationship0
Redefining the status quo state: collective support, order-maintenance, and self-restraint0
Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: securitization through association0
The will to do good and the clash of practices: understanding Sudanese sanctions relief0
Could humanitarian intervention fuel the conflict instead of ending it?0
The Ukraine question: how should the south respond?0
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption0
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
Rebel actors and legitimacy building0
Israeli foreign policy towards Turkey since 2011: from adverse asymmetry to equivalence?0
The concept of ‘self-reliance’ in national defense in South Korea: a study of its interrelationships with the USA since the late 1960s0
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance0
International LGBTQ+  politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?0
Populism as a ‘corrective’ to trade agreements? ‘America First’ and the readjustment of NAFTA0
Declining hegemony and the sources of Trump’s disengagement from multilateral trade governance: the interaction between domestic politics and the international political economy0
Always part of a vision? The US and the Israel–Palestinian dispute under George W. Bush and after0
Why the dissemination of health information via government intervention is enhanced by a Culture-Centered Approach0
Exploiting dissent: foreign military interventions in the Arab uprisings0
Mongolia–Central Asia relations and the implications of the rise of China on its future evolution0
Putting Discourses About the War in Ukraine on a Map: How Different is Everyone’s Story?0
Facilitating crisis: Hungarian and Slovak securitization of migrants and their implications for EU politics0
To trust or not to trust? ‘Exit’ approaches in EU citizens’ attitudes after Brexit0
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’0
How Brazil embraced informal organizations0
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’: authoritarian protectionism and the end of neoliberal hegemony0
Forward to the 1980s: US strategic trade in the world order0
How do middle powers act? Turkey’s foreign policy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine0
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR0
On the limits of empire0
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics0
Fantasies of cultural sovereignty and national unity: Russia?s ontological (in)security and its assertion of ?spiritual-moral values??0
A conspiracy of silence: the CIA black sites in Poland0
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa0
Power dynamics at the global-regional nexus: examining structural constraints on regional conflict management0
Iraq’s popular mobilisation units: intra-sectarian rivalry and Arab Shi’a mobilisation from the 2003 invasion to Covid-19 pandemic0
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach0
Global War and the Racial Imaginary0
The US–China economic tensions and China’s growing influence in East Asia: Japan’s eclectic approach to the free and open Indo-Pacific0
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