International Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC of International Affairs is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon60
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts52
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa44
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes42
Contributors40
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8940
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine39
Abstracts39
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy38
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes32
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces31
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia31
A green and global Europe30
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics30
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA29
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises29
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses28
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives26
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China26
Making geographies of peace and conflict25
Populism: Latin American perspectives24
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace24
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view23
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO23
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia22
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains22
Abstracts21
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone20
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO19
The CIA in Ecuador18
Rise of the international: International Relations meets history18
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace18
Understanding maritime security18
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling18
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change18
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition16
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 191416
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship16
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates16
Negotiating the New START Treaty15
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners15
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims14
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world14
Freedom14
Books reviewed: July 202514
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity14
International Relations and political philosophy13
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS13
Queering the Responsibility to Protect13
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service13
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era13
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?13
Globalization, deglobalization and human security: the case of Myanmar13
How not to learn from history13
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments12
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project12
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics12
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment12
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy12
Correction 112
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative12
Understanding migration power in international studies12
The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order12
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations12
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century12
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy11
Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global jihad in Nigeria; Insurgency and war in Nigeria: regional fracture and the fight against Boko Haram11
Contributors11
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war11
Rethinking American grand strategy11
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment11
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda11
Contributors11
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time11
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies10
Greatness and decline: national identity and British foreign policy10
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO10
War and genocide in South Sudan10
Migration studies and colonialism10
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era10
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo10
Contributors10
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo9
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world9
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice9
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations9
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity9
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
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan9
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?9
Living the Asian century: an undiplomatic memoir8
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America8
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
The derecognition of states8
Globalization, deglobalization and knowledge production8
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 19798
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment8
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies8
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief8
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa8
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility7
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]7
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya7
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs7
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them7
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas7
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires7
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing7
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India7
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution7
Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy7
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power7
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US7
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture7
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
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War6
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation6
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity6
The worst military leaders in history6
Precision: a history of American warfare6
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
Weizhi xianshi zhuyi: yizhong waijiao zhengce lilun [Positional realism: a theory of foreign policy]6
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war6
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war6
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world6
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–19196
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe6
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East6
Australia's security in China's shadow6
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now6
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations6
Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg6
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums6
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state6
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–19945
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?5
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics5
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule5
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance5
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege5
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan5
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–19185
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 18005
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order5
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system5
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary5
Abstracts5
The global third nuclear age: clashing visions for a new era in international politics5
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties5
International law and the politics of history5
Books reviewed May 20235
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward5
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine5
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty5
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration5
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak5
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation5
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE5
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs4
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan4
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?4
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants4
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy4
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability4
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order4
Praxis as a perspective on international politics4
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance4
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward4
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring4
Guns, guerrillas, and the great leader: North Korea and the Third World4
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language4
Correction4
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict4
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept4
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture4
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy4
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent4
New democracy and autocratization in Asia4
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20224
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires4
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–213
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action3
States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order3
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization3
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China3
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression3
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries3
Routledge handbook of historical international relations3
Understanding global migration3
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new3
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy3
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations3
The ethics of artificial intelligence in defence3
Libya and the global enduring disorder3
How not to manage crises in the European Union3
Population ageing and national security in Asia3
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations3
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter3
How not to solve a financial crisis3
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy3
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program3
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping3
Environmentalism and global international society3
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy3
Asia after Europe: imagining a continent in the long twentieth century3
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise3
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security3
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy3
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative3
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay3
How not to bridge the gap in international relations3
Contributors3
Books reviewed January 20243
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II3
International Relations and the problem of time3
Polycentrism: how governing works today2
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories2
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order2
The end of the empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization2
Seeing human rights: video activism as a proxy profession2
Reclaiming migration: voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’2
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism2
Socialism goes global: the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation2
Alliances, nuclear weapons and escalation: managing deterrence in the 21st century2
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20232
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states2
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change2
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb2
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons2
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy2
The Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian state2
India vs UK: the story of an unprecedented diplomatic win2
‘Environmental anarchy? Security in the 21st century’ and ‘States and nature: the effects of climate change on security’2
Out of time: the queer politics of postcoloniality2
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative2
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime2
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty2
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation2
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security2
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Books reviewed March 20232
How to survive a crisis2
Between Mao and Gandhi: the social roots of civil resistance2
Turkey in Africa: Turkey's strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Colonial policy studies in Japan: racial visions of Nan'yo, or the early creation of a global South2
Whither the Indo-Pacific? Middle power strategies from Australia, South Korea and Indonesia2
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