International Affairs

Article	Citations
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine	66
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces	60
A green and global Europe	54
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics	51
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes	47
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia	47
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–89	46
Abstracts	46
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon	39
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts	37
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy	36
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa	36
Contributors	36
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses	31
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China	29
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives	29
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA	27
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises	26
Populism: Latin American perspectives	25
The myth of American idealism: how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world	24
Making geographies of peace and conflict	24
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace	24
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone	24
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view	22
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history	22

Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia	21
Understanding maritime security	21
Abstracts	21
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO	20
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains	20
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition	19
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship	18
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 1914	18
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world	18
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates	18
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners	18
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling	17
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?	17
Books reviewed: July 2025	17
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change	17
International Relations and political philosophy	17
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace	17
Freedom	17
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims	16
Queering the Responsibility to Protect	16
How not to learn from history	16
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service	16
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy	16
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity	15
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era	15
Duty and choice: unpacking ambiguous perceptions of Ukrainian men fleeing the war	14
Understanding migration power in international studies	14
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo	14
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments	14
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century	14
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS	14
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era	13
Correction 1	13
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations	13
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies	13
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time	13
Contributors	13
Rethinking American grand strategy	13
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda	13
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	12
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war	12
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment	12
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics	12
Contributors	12
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy	12
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo	11
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir	11
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment	11
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project	11
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies	11

Migration studies and colonialism	11
The derecognition of states	11
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice	11
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations	10
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity	10
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation	10
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa	10
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan	10
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world	10
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief	10
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico	10
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO	9
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power	9
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 1979	9
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]	9
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America	9
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?	9
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya	9
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa	9
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas	9
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment	9
New perspectives on diplomacy: a new theory and practice of diplomacy; New perspectives on diplomacy: contemporary diplomacy in action	9
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility	9
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state	9
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires	9
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies	8
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture	8
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them	8
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India	8
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs	8
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right	8
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US	8
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing	8
Sweden's grand strategy: predicaments of a small liberal state in a hostile world	7
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war	7
The worst military leaders in history	7
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–1918	7
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War	7
Australia's security in China's shadow	7
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations	7
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity	7
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution	7
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East	7
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state	7
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance	7
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation	7
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums	7
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war	7
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation	7
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world	7
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 an	7
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–1994	6
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring	6
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties	6
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration	6
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics	6
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE	6
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 1800	6
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919	6
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance	6
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine	6
Abstracts	6
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism	6
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan	6
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?	6
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now	6
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order	6
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege	6
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak	6
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary	6
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe	6
International law and the politics of history	6
Books reviewed May 2023	6
Precision: a history of American warfare	6
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants	5
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics	5
Praxis as a perspective on international politics	5
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires	5
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–2022	5
New democracy and autocratization in Asia	5

The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance	5
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict	5
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule	5
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system	5
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis	5
The survival of international organizations: institutional responses to existential challenges	5
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs	5
Correction	5
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy	5
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept	5
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward	5
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture	5
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?	5
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward	5
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy	5
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language	5
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability	5
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order	5
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan	5
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty	5
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security	4
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy	4
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative	4
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries	4
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik	4
Insurgent nations: rebel rule in Angola and South Sudan	4
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II	4
How not to manage crises in the European Union	4
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization	4
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter	4
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China	4
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence	4
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations	4
How not to bridge the gap in international relations	4
Libya and the global enduring disorder	4
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression	4
Population ageing and national security in Asia	4
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century	4
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent	4
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–21	4
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise	4
Environmentalism and global international society	4
Routledge handbook of historical international relations	3
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy	3
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new	3
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy	3
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine	3
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons	3
The fractured age: how the return of geopolitics will splinter the global economy	3
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy	3
Contributors	3
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress	3
Polycentrism: how governing works today	3
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security	3
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change	3
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?	3
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program	3
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy	3
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping	3
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order	3
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics	3
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty	3
The political economy of connectivity in the Somali Horn of Africa	3
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime	3
The sea and International Relations	3
The crisis of the conservative international order	3
Books reviewed January 2024	3
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–2023	3
Understanding global migration	3
India's China strategy after Galwan: minilateral and multilateral soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific	3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories	3
How not to solve a financial crisis	3
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay	3
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation	3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative	3
‘We are soldiers now’: green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation	3
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization	3
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb	3
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states	3
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action	3
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy	3
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states	3
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices	3
Nations before the nation-state: between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present	2
Out of time: the queer politics of postcoloniality	2
Transformative diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks	2
Colonial policy studies in Japan: racial visions of Nan'yo, or the early creation of a global South	2
Insufficiency of informal alignment: why did Finland choose formal NATO membership?	2
The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture	2
The Abraham Accords: the Gulf States, Israel, and the limits of normalization	2
Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain	2
Contributors	2
Organizational narratives and self-legitimation in international organizations	2
Reinscribing global hierarchies: COVID–19, racial capitalism and the liberal international order	2
The radical redemption model: terrorist beliefs and narratives	2