International Affairs

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay93
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy50
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy45
Great powers, climate change, and global environmental responsibilities38
Uzbekistan's international relations33
‘How China loses: the pushback against Chinese global ambitions’ and ‘The avoidable war: the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China’33
The Middle East and American national security: forever wars and conflicts?33
China's foreign policy contradictions: lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy29
Abstracts29
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy27
The politics of LGBTQ rights expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean26
Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy: a framework of EU foreign policy change26
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II26
White freedom: the racial history of an idea25
Why international organizations hate politics: depoliticizing the world24
Highways to the end of the world: roads, roadmen and power in South Asia23
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics23
Every citizen a statesman: the dream of a democratic foreign policy in the American century21
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE21
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise21
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa20
Inescapable entrapments? The civil–military decision paths to Uruzgan and Helmand20
Books reviewed November 202119
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the mission to rescue the hostages the world forgot; Strategic turnaround: story of a government agency19
The ISIS reader: milestone texts of the Islamic State movement19
Capital and imperialism: theory, history, and the present19
Climate, catastrophe, and faith: how changes in climate drive religious upheaval18
Abstracts18
Transitional justice and the ongoing exclusion of sexual exploitation and abuse by international intervenors17
Turkey–West relations: the politics of intra-alliance opposition16
The International Organization for Migration: the new ‘UN migration agency’ in critical perspective15
Contesting revisionism: China, the United States, and the transformation of international order15
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action15
China's grand strategy: a roadmap to global power?14
Not one inch: America, Russia, and the making of post-Cold War stalemate13
The Indian Ocean as a new political and security region13
Atomic steppe: how Kazakhstan gave up the bomb13
Complex dynamics in peace negotiations: insiders' views on the Colombian experience12
Legitimating non-state actor engagement in global climate governance12
Art as demonstration: a revolutionary recasting of knowledge12
Smugglers and states: negotiating the Maghreb at its margins11
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change11
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia11
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation11
El mundo visto desde América Latina: una revisión de los conceptos básicos de las Relaciones Internacionales11
Queer conflict research: new approaches to the study of political violence11
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China11
Imbuing climate security with positive peace: a peace continuum approach to sustaining peace during climate crisis11
‘We are soldiers now’: green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation11
Order, justice and inequality: the curious case of jihadist divine justice10
Understanding Bangladesh's security governance through peacekeeping assemblage: does contribution matter?10
Blue helmet bureaucrats: United Nations peacekeeping and the reinvention of colonialism, 1945–197110
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces10
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations10
The sea and International Relations10
Islamophobia and the politics of empire: twenty years after 9/1110
A green and global Europe10
The Russian approach to peacekeeping10
Israel's national security, the Arab position, and its complicated relations with the United States9
Hybrid sovereignty in world politics9
Polarity in International Relations: past, present, future9
Latin American social movements and progressive governments: creative tensions between resistance and convergence9
Russia's war on everybody and what it means for you; The Russia conundrum: how the West fell for Putin's power gambit—and how to fix it9
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb9
The invention of green colonialism8
After the apocalypse: America's role in a world transformed8
The crisis in the palm of our hand8
Platform kinship and the reshaping of political order in the Somali territories8
BRICS countries and the construction of conflict in the Women, Peace and Security Open Debates8
Handbook on the politics of memory; The Routledge handbook of memory activism8
Ambiguities in the EU's rights-based approach to liberal order8
Global resurgence of the right: conceptual and regional perspectives8
A small state's guide to influence in world politics8
From innovation to participation: connectivity and the conduct of contemporary warfare8
International Relations and the problem of time8
Empires of Eurasia: how imperial legacies shape international security; The neighborhood effect: the imperial roots of regional fracture in Eurasia8
The civil condition in world politics: beyond tragedy and utopianism8
The 2020 Belarusian presidential election and conspiracy theories in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict8
Whither the Indo-Pacific? Middle power strategies from Australia, South Korea and Indonesia8
Ascending order: rising powers and the politics of status in International Relations8
The political economy of connectivity in the Somali Horn of Africa8
The ironic state: British comedy and the everyday politics of globalization8
Environmentalism and global international society8
Democracy on the ground: local politics in Latin America's left turn8
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states8
Reactionary democracy: how racism and the populist far right became mainstream7
Hypocrisy and human rights: resisting accountability for mass atrocities7
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty7
Liberalism against itself: Cold War intellectuals and the making of our times7
The new climate war: the fight to take back our planet7
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine7
Books reviewed: September 20247
Contributors7
Making geographies of peace and conflict7
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace7
The hidden history of Burma: race, capitalism and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century; Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: between feminism and ethnopolitics7
Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism7
India versus China: why they are not friends7
Global health law & policy: ensuring justice for a healthier world7
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime7
Rebel economies: warlords, insurgents, humanitarians6
(Re)introducing world hegemony into the ‘global organic crisis’6
ASEAN and power in international relations: ASEAN, the EU, and the contestation of human rights6
Securitization revisited: contemporary applications and insights6
New directions in Women, Peace and Security6
Libya and the global enduring disorder6
How not to run international affairs6
Under the gun: political parties and violence in Pakistan5
Routledge handbook of historical international relations5
How China lost its wolf pack: the fracturing of the emerging-power alliance at the WTO5
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes5
Books reviewed January 20245
Virtual issue: The Middle East in International Affairs5
Books reviewed July 20225
South Korea and NATO: from unlikely companions to key partners5
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives5
Polycentrism: how governing works today5
Introduction NATO at 755
The new Atlantic order: the transformation of international politics, 1860–19335
Respected individuals: when state representatives wield outsize influence in international organizations5
The violence of conservation in Africa: state, militarization and alternatives5
Decapitation strategies and the significance of Abubakar Shekau's death in Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis5
Abstracts5
How states think: the rationality of foreign policy5
The absolutely indispensable man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the fight to end empire5
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi: ruling party elites and illiberal peace5
Contributors5
Gendering Sweden's nuclear renunciation: a historical analysis5
Rethinking pragmatism through the lens of Michel Foucault: governance of bilateral relations5
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon4
Reaching for the heights: the inside story of a secret attempt to reach a Syrian-Israeli peace4
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program4
Books reviewed January 20234
Contributors4
Understanding global migration4
How not to solve a financial crisis4
Proscribing peace: how listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations4
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts4
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy4
The ideal river: how control of nature shaped the international order4
Mohammed bin Salman: the Icarus of Saudi Arabia?4
Colonial institutions and civil war: indirect rule and Maoist insurgency in India4
Gwangju uprising: the rebellion for democracy in South Korea4
How not to think like a hegemon4
Contributors4
Interactive peacemaking: a people-centered approach4
Decolonizing politics: an introduction4
National role conceptions in a new millennium: defining a place in a changing world4
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy4
Sinostan: China's inadvertent empire4
From EU battlegroups to Rapid Deployment Capacity: learning the right lessons?3
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy3
Forgotten warriors: a history of women on the front line; The women behind the few: the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British intelligence during the Second World War3
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?3
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices3
Misunderstanding Myanmar through the lens of democracy3
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses3
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains3
Books reviewed September 20233
Women and the Afghan peace and reintegration process3
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes3
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative3
Abstracts3
Civilizational Wilsonianism from Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump3
The Lumumba plot: the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination3
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view3
Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin3
Of light and struggle: social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay3
Mexican women's neglected early International Relations contributions3
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia3
Populism: Latin American perspectives3
The wannabe fascists: a guide to understanding the greatest threat to democracy3
Missing voices: Latin American perspectives in International Relations3
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO3
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises3
Abstracts3
Disciplining India: paternalism, neo-liberalism and Hindutva civilizationalism2
Security force assistance to Cameroon: how building enclave units deepens autocracy2
Interventions since the Cold War: from statebuilding to stabilization2
Japan and the liberal international order: rules-based, multilateral, inclusive and localized2
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA2
Rethinking strategy and statecraft for the twenty-first century of complexity: a case for strategic diplomacy2
The dilemma of energy security: political and institutional hazards in case of Pakistan (1947–2020)2
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Beyond a ‘survivor-centred approach’ to conflict-related sexual violence?2
From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings2
The politics of antagonism: populist security narratives and the remaking of political identity2
Using force to protect civilians: successes and failures of United Nations peace operations in Africa2
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new2
Globalization, deglobalization and the liberal international order2
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions2
(Dis)order and (in)justice in a heating world2
Knowledge production on peace: actors, hierarchies and policy relevance2
Resisting domination in Palestine: mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality and settler colonialism2
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone2
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics2
The scholarship–practitioner nexus: lessons from Latin American foreign policy2
Abortion pills go global: reproductive freedom across borders2
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20232
How not to negotiate: the case of trade multilateralism2
War and aesthetics: art, technology, and the futures of warfare2
Building on open economy politics to understand the stalled EU–India trade negotiations2
Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order2
Researching climate justice: a decolonial approach to global climate governance2
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security2
Syria betrayed: atrocities, war, and the failure of international diplomacy2
How ‘making the world in its own liberal image’ made the West less liberal2
Contesting global justice from the South: redistribution in the international order2
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order2
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping2
Norm diffusion in cyber governance: China as an emerging norm entrepreneur?2
Europe's constitutional unsettlement: testing the political limits of legal integration2
Piracy and the broader ‘gun business’ in the Niger Delta2
Multilateral sanctions revisited: lessons learned from Margaret Doxey2
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO2
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy2
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–892
Inside the deal: how the EU got Brexit done2
Singapore's conception of the liberal international order as a small state2
Challenging war traditions: humanitarian discourse and the nuclear prohibition treaty1
Not on the map: the peculiar histories of de facto states1
The clean energy transition: policies and politics for a zero-carbon world1
Settling for less: why states colonize and why they stop1
New pandemic, old politics: two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives1
Klimat: Russia in the age of climate change1
Reclaiming migration: voices from Europe's ‘migrant crisis’1
India vs UK: the story of an unprecedented diplomatic win1
Twelve feminist lessons of war1
International organizations and small states: participation, legitimacy and vulnerability1
The United Nations: policy and practice1
Powering empire: how coal made the Middle East and sparked global carbonization1
Contributors1
In memoriam: Gillian Somerscales 1958–20231
Autocracy rising: how Venezuela transitioned to authoritarianism1
How to survive a crisis1
The liberal international trading order (LITO) in an era of shifting capabilities1
Atlas of AI: power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence.1
The death of asylum: hidden geographies of the enforcement archipelago1
And I live on: the resilience of Rwandan genocide survivors of sexual violence1
Martialling peace: how the peacekeeper myth legitimises warfare1
The challenge for the ‘rest’: insertion, agency spaces and recognition in world politics1
The Rohingya: an ethnography of ‘subhuman’ life1
Tragic nation Burma: why and how democracy failed1
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace1
Conspiring with the enemy: the ethic of cooperation in warfare1
Constructing nuclear responsibility in US–India relations1
Colonial policy studies in Japan: racial visions of Nan'yo, or the early creation of a global South1
Books reviewed March 20241
China after Mao: the rise of a superpower1
The breakup of India and Palestine: the causes and legacies of partition1
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