International Studies Review

Papers
(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 4. 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
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research62
War without Boots53
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?42
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics39
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism32
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars31
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself25
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward24
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building24
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue18
Wither the Trade Regime?17
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda17
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community16
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces16
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia16
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty15
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion15
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making15
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?14
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process14
The Climate Challenge for International Studies13
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”13
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes13
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire12
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity12
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity11
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries10
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights10
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies10
Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present9
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?9
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay8
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions8
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations8
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry8
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research8
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication7
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism7
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations7
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique6
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press, 6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups6
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies6
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence6
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya6
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators5
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector5
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security5
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations5
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security4
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance4
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization4
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics4
Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias4
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