International Affairs

Papers
(The median citation count of International Affairs 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon63
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts54
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa48
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes45
Contributors43
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8942
Abstracts40
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine40
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy39
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes36
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia33
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces32
A green and global Europe32
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises31
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics31
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA31
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives30
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses30
Making geographies of peace and conflict27
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China27
Populism: Latin American perspectives26
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace26
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia25
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO25
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view23
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone22
Abstracts22
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history22
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains20
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change19
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO19
Understanding maritime security19
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace18
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling18
The CIA in Ecuador18
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 191418
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship17
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners17
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates17
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition17
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity16
Freedom16
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world16
Negotiating the New START Treaty16
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments15
Books reviewed: July 202515
Understanding migration power in international studies15
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims15
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service14
Globalization, deglobalization and human security: the case of Myanmar14
International Relations and political philosophy14
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era14
How not to learn from history13
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?13
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment13
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project13
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy13
Queering the Responsibility to Protect13
The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order13
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS13
Correction 113
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century13
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative12
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment12
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics12
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda12
Contributors12
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations12
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time12
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy11
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war11
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo11
Rethinking American grand strategy11
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era11
Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global jihad in Nigeria; Insurgency and war in Nigeria: regional fracture and the fight against Boko Haram11
Contributors11
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies11
War and genocide in South Sudan10
Contributors10
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan10
Greatness and decline: national identity and British foreign policy10
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa10
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations10
Migration studies and colonialism10
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo10
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity10
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO9
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world9
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir9
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment9
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies9
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice9
The derecognition of states9
Globalization, deglobalization and knowledge production9
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico9
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state8
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power8
Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy8
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]8
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief8
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 19798
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires8
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas8
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing8
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?8
New perspectives on diplomacy: a new theory and practice of diplomacy; New perspectives on diplomacy: contemporary diplomacy in action8
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa8
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility8
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya8
Precision: a history of American warfare7
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution7
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US7
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war7
Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg7
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity7
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums7
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them7
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies7
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India7
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations7
The worst military leaders in history7
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now7
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture7
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs7
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war7
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation7
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world7
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism6
A hierarchical vision of order: understanding Chinese foreign policy in Asia; China's asymmetric statecraft: alignments, competitors, and regional diplomacy; The authoritarian century: China's rise an6
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state6
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 18006
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?6
Australia's security in China's shadow6
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe6
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East6
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation6
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–19946
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE6
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–19196
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance6
Weizhi xianshi zhuyi: yizhong waijiao zhengce lilun [Positional realism: a theory of foreign policy]6
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–19186
Books reviewed May 20236
International law and the politics of history6
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War6
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine5
Abstracts5
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties5
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary5
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward5
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration5
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system5
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak5
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege5
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order5
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance5
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule5
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty5
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?5
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture5
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan5
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics5
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward5
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics5
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan5
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants5
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring5
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative4
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent4
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy4
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs4
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20224
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept4
Correction4
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict4
Population ageing and national security in Asia4
New democracy and autocratization in Asia4
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy4
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries4
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy4
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability4
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter4
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires4
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression4
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language4
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China4
Praxis as a perspective on international politics4
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization4
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance4
Guns, guerrillas, and the great leader: North Korea and the Third World4
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order4
Environmentalism and global international society3
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation3
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence3
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century3
How not to bridge the gap in international relations3
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II3
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative3
The sea and International Relations3
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order3
Libya and the global enduring disorder3
Contributors3
International Relations and the problem of time3
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program3
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations3
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–213
States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order3
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise3
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy3
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?3
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states3
Polycentrism: how governing works today3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories3
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action3
Understanding global migration3
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy3
Books reviewed January 20243
How not to solve a financial crisis3
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security3
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik3
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations3
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new3
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine3
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty3
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change3
Routledge handbook of historical international relations3
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb3
How not to manage crises in the European Union3
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy3
How research travels to policy: the case of Nordic peace research2
Justice and international order: East and West2
Globalization, international mobility and the liberal international order2
Partisans: the conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s2
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’2
Reclaiming migration: voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’2
International norm disputes: the link between contestation and norm robustness, Contesting the world: norm research in theory and practice2
Abstracts2
Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world2
Digital recognition: cybersecurity and internet infrastructure in UAE–Israel diplomacy2
Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis2
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession2
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954–19682
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-192
Violent resistance: militia formation and civil war in Mozambique2
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures2
How to survive a crisis2
Books reviewed March 20232
The Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian state2
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