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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon57
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts55
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa48
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes45
Contributors45
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8944
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine43
Abstracts40
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia35
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes35
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy35
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces34
A green and global Europe33
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics31
Understanding maritime security30
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA28
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises28
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses27
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives27
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China26
Making geographies of peace and conflict25
Populism: Latin American perspectives22
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace22
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO21
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains20
Abstracts19
The myth of American idealism: how U.S. foreign policy endangers the world19
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone19
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history19
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia19
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view19
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace18
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 191418
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change18
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling18
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition17
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates17
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship17
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners16
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world16
Negotiating the New START Treaty16
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims15
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments15
Freedom15
Books reviewed: July 202515
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity15
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service14
Understanding migration power in international studies14
International Relations and political philosophy14
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era14
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?14
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS13
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project13
Queering the Responsibility to Protect13
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy13
How not to learn from history13
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century12
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics12
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment12
Correction 112
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative12
The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order12
Contributors12
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations12
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war11
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment11
Rethinking American grand strategy11
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda11
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy11
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time11
The derecognition of states10
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo10
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir10
Contributors10
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era10
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies10
Migration studies and colonialism10
Contributors10
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies10
War and genocide in South Sudan10
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world9
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?9
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America9
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations9
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan9
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice9
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO9
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico9
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa9
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief9
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment9
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo9
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity9
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa8
Soft balancing in south-east Asia: inclusion over confrontation8
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility8
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state8
New perspectives on diplomacy: a new theory and practice of diplomacy; New perspectives on diplomacy: contemporary diplomacy in action8
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya8
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires8
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 19798
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power8
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas8
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them7
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity7
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war7
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution7
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture7
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India7
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing7
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations7
Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg7
The worst military leaders in history7
Hayek's bastards: the neoliberal roots of the populist right7
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]7
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
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US7
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies7
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance6
Australia's security in China's shadow6
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–19196
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
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East6
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism6
Precision: a history of American warfare6
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War6
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
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
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums6
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now6
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
Weizhi xianshi zhuyi: yizhong waijiao zhengce lilun [Positional realism: a theory of foreign policy]6
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward5
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration5
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics5
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine5
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics5
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty5
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary5
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?5
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule5
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward5
Abstracts5
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan5
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance5
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege5
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe5
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture5
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants5
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan5
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak5
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties5
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order5
Defending memory in global politics: mnemonical in/security and crisis5
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring5
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system5
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent4
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy4
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict4
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability4
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative4
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy4
New democracy and autocratization in Asia4
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy4
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires4
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance4
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter4
Praxis as a perspective on international politics4
Population ageing and national security in Asia4
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries4
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language4
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs4
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order4
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept4
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression4
Correction4
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China4
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20224
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–213
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security3
How not to manage crises in the European Union3
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping3
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new3
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?3
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty3
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine3
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy3
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb3
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action3
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy3
How not to solve a financial crisis3
How not to bridge the gap in international relations3
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence3
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II3
Libya and the global enduring disorder3
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics3
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order3
The sea and International Relations3
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation3
Environmentalism and global international society3
Contributors3
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy3
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program3
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations3
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization3
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century3
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik3
Books reviewed January 20243
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices3
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states3
Polycentrism: how governing works today3
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise3
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories3
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations3
Understanding global migration3
Routledge handbook of historical international relations3
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change3
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism2
Between Mao and Gandhi: the social roots of civil resistance2
Digital recognition: cybersecurity and internet infrastructure in UAE–Israel diplomacy2
Abstracts2
Beijing's global media offensive: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world2
Reclaiming migration: voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’2
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’2
Waging a good war: a military history of the civil rights movement, 1954–19682
Post-Soviet graffiti: free speech in authoritarian states2
Reinscribing global hierarchies: COVID–19, racial capitalism and the liberal international order2
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-192
Violent resistance: militia formation and civil war in Mozambique2
Editorial2
The Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian state2
How to survive a crisis2
Books reviewed March 20232
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay2
India vs UK: the story of an unprecedented diplomatic win2
International norm disputes: the link between contestation and norm robustness, Contesting the world: norm research in theory and practice2
How research travels to policy: the case of Nordic peace research2
Justice and international order: East and West2
The handbook of African intelligence cultures; The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures2
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession2
Challenges to democracy in the Andes: strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis2
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