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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why international organizations hate politics: depoliticizing the world103
The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon54
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts49
Rejectionist Islamism in sub-Saharan Africa40
Criminalizing atrocity: the global spread of criminal laws against international crimes38
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi: ruling party elites and illiberal peace37
Command: the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine36
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979–8936
Abstracts36
Contributors36
Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy30
International theory at the margins: neglected essays, recurring themes29
Distancing through peacekeeping: global peacekeeping assemblages and the Gambian armed forces29
Nation and its modes of oppressions in south Asia29
Public health in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: global health governance, migrant labour, and international health crises28
A green and global Europe28
An unwritten future: realism and uncertainty in world politics28
No cloak, no dagger: a professor's secret life inside the CIA26
Chinese visions of self and Other: the international politics of noses25
Pivoting to overseas development: international NGOs' changing engagement with China24
Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives24
Populism: Latin American perspectives23
Peacebuilding legacy: programming for change and young people's attitude to peace23
Making geographies of peace and conflict23
Progress, decolonization and global justice: a tragic view22
From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO22
Understanding the ‘crisis of the institution’ in the liberal trade order at the WTO21
Interventions since the Cold War: from statebuilding to stabilization20
Abstracts19
Anyone can be a hero: the militarization of children in Putin's Russia18
Achieving European Union strategic autonomy: circularity in critical raw materials value chains18
Future of denial: the ideologies of climate change17
Obedient rebellion: conceiving the African nuclear weapon-free zone17
The CIA in Ecuador16
Tears of theory: International Relations as storytelling16
Pacific power paradox: American statecraft and the fate of the Asian peace16
Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates15
Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 191415
Peripheral voices: women in international trade scholarship15
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and environments14
White torture: interviews with Iranian women prisoners14
Child soldiers in Nepal: re-conceptualizing reintegration and identity14
Limited force and the fight for the just war tradition14
Britain's persuaders: soft power in a hard world14
Negotiating the New START Treaty14
Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims13
Understanding migration power in international studies13
International Relations and political philosophy13
Queering the Responsibility to Protect13
The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational philanthropy13
How not to learn from history12
Global health diplomacy and North Korea in the COVID-19 era12
The Russian FSB: a concise history of the Federal Security Service12
Globalization, deglobalization and human security: the case of Myanmar12
Contributors11
Correction 111
Why Islamists go green: politics, religion and the environment11
‘BrOthers in Arms’: France, the Anglosphere and AUKUS11
Strategic narratives, ontological security and global policy: responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative11
There is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the twenty-first century11
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project11
Sex on mission: care, control and coloniality in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations11
Nonhuman humanitarians: animal interventions in global politics11
The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order11
Arctic cooperation with Russia: at what price?11
The terrorist image: decoding the Islamic State's photo-propaganda10
The state of peacebuilding in Africa: lessons learned for policymakers and practitioners10
Globalization, deglobalization and knowledge production10
The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo10
Soft power and the future of US foreign policy10
Law and sentiment in international politics: ethics, emotions, and the evolution of the laws of war10
Unmasking Boko Haram: exploring global jihad in Nigeria; Insurgency and war in Nigeria: regional fracture and the fight against Boko Haram10
The hegemon's tool kit: US leadership and the politics of the nuclear nonproliferation regime; Atomic friends: how America deals with nuclear-armed allies10
The world that Latin America created: the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the development era10
Constructive resistance: repetitions, emotions, and time10
Unsustainable inequalities: social justice and the environment10
Contributors10
Rethinking American grand strategy10
Migration studies and colonialism9
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: information warfare in eastern Congo9
War and genocide in South Sudan9
Greatness and decline: national identity and British foreign policy9
Contributors9
The concertation impulse in world politics: contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist International Relations9
Shi'a principles and Iran's strategic culture towards ballistic missile deployment8
Between soldiers and cops: the transnational boundary work of militarization in Mexico8
The Routledge handbook of south Asia: region, security and connectivity8
Negotiating marine protected areas across knowledge systems: multilateral boundary work in practice8
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America8
Pax Economica: left-wing visions of a free trade world8
How to lose a war: the story of America's intervention in Afghanistan8
European public opinion: united in supporting Ukraine, divided on the future of NATO8
Shouting in a cage: political life after authoritarian co-optation in North Africa8
China's rise and the reshaping of sovereign debt relief8
Localizing refugeehood: norms and the US resettlement of Afghan allies8
Histories of surveillance from antiquity to the digital era: the eyes and ears of power7
The battle of the ayatollahs in Iran: the United States, foreign policy, and political rivalry since 19797
Putin's wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine; Russia's road to war with Ukraine: invasion amidst the ashes of empires7
The star and the scepter: a diplomatic history of Israel7
Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war7
What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘return’ of geopolitics?7
The Palgrave handbook of small arms and conflicts in Africa7
All roads lead north: China, Nepal and the contest for the Himalayas7
Leviathan on a leash: a theory of state responsibility7
Putin's war in Syria: Russian foreign policy and the price of America's absence. By Anna Borshchevskaya7
From imperial power to regional policeman: Ethiopian peacekeeping and the developmental state7
New perspectives on diplomacy: a new theory and practice of diplomacy; New perspectives on diplomacy: contemporary diplomacy in action7
Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy7
Saelo ilgneun hanmigwangyesa: yeong-wonhan dongmaeng-ilaneun yeogseol [A new history of ROK–US relations: the paradox of an eternal alliance]7
Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United Nations6
Fighting retreat: Churchill and India6
Capitalism and crises: how to fix them6
Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation6
The power of crisis: how three threats—and our response—will change the world6
Precision: a history of American warfare6
Superpower Europe: the European Union's silent revolution6
The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies6
Policing empires: militarization, race, and the imperial boomerang in Britain and the US6
Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg6
A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war6
Visualizing genocide: Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums6
Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations6
Westlessness: the great global rebalancing6
The face of the nation: gendered institutions in international affairs6
Geopolitics and democracy: the western liberal order from foundation to fracture6
Cyber risk logics and their implications for cybersecurity6
The worst military leaders in history6
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now6
Making international institutions work: the politics of performance5
Peacemaking and peacebuilding in South Africa: the National Peace Accord, 1991–19945
Allusion, reasoning and luring in Chinese psychological warfare5
Tribalism and political power in the Gulf: state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE5
International law and the politics of history5
Fearing the worst: how Korea transformed the Cold War5
Britain and the intellectual origins of the League of Nations, 1914–19195
Populist international (dis)order? Lessons from world-order visions in Latin American populism5
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–19185
Global policymaking: the patchwork of global governance5
The ledger: accounting for failure in Afghanistan5
The EU-China security paradox: cooperation against all odds?5
Menace to empire: anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state5
Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East5
Institutional change, sovereigntist contestation and the limits of populism: evidence from southern Europe5
Africa–Europe cooperation and digital transformation5
Securing peace in Angola and Mozambique: the importance of specificity in peace treaties5
The Sino-Indian rivalry: implications for global order5
The politics of smallness in modern Europe: size, identity and international relations since 18005
Books reviewed May 20235
Weizhi xianshi zhuyi: yizhong waijiao zhengce lilun [Positional realism: a theory of foreign policy]5
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 an5
Australia's security in China's shadow5
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab Spring4
How do informal international organizations govern? The G20 and orchestration4
Saints and soldiers: inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege4
Abstracts4
Saffronizing diplomacy: the Indian Foreign Service under Hindu nationalist rule4
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept4
China's civilian army: the making of Wolf Warrior diplomacy4
Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system4
European populism and the return of ‘illiberal sovereignty’: a case-study of Hungary4
More than a health crisis: securitization and the US response to the 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak4
How migration really works: a factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics4
Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward4
Rethinking science diplomacy and global biosecurity: challenges, emerging practices and the way forward4
The meddlers: sovereignty, empire, and the birth of global economic governance4
Guns, guerrillas, and the great leader: North Korea and the Third World4
The Arctic as a boundary object: who negotiates Arctic governance?4
The new geopolitics of EU cybersecurity: security, economy and sovereignty4
NATO: from Cold War to Ukraine4
Asian conceptions of international order: what Asia wants4
ASEAN, Chinese and US legitimation strategies over the Indo-Pacific security architecture4
Afghan crucible: the Soviet invasion and the making of modern Afghanistan4
Virtual issue: 70 years of the United Nations in International Affairs4
Britain and Italy in the era of the Great War: defending and forging empires4
Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations3
The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalization3
Weapons in space: technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative3
Unruly speech: displacement and the politics of transgression3
Correction3
Masculinity and the Cuban Missile Crisis: gender as pre-emptive deterrent3
How Britain broke the world: war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997–20223
How not to manage crises in the European Union3
Libya and the global enduring disorder3
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 ethnopolitics3
Sustainable futures: an agenda for action3
The Turkish malaise: a critical essay3
How not to bridge the gap in international relations3
Smartphones and video as security articulation infrastructures: evidencing Black Lives Matter3
Peace, preference, and property: return migration after violent conflict3
Challenging nuclearism: a humanitarian approach to reshape the global nuclear order3
Feminist conversations on peace; Finding gender equality in the women, peace and security agenda: from global promises to national accountability3
Russia and the world in the Putin era: from theory to reality in Russian global strategy3
Modi's India: Hindu nationalism and the rise of ethnic democracy3
Seven crashes: the economic crises that shaped globalization; A crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries3
Strategiya: the foundations of the Russian art of strategy3
Digital suffragists: women, the web, and the future of democracy3
States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order3
Digital oil: chips, artificial intelligence and US national security3
Praxis as a perspective on international politics3
Population ageing and national security in Asia3
New democracy and autocratization in Asia3
Speak not: empire, identity and the politics of language3
The Dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university; Money machine: a trailblazing American venture in China3
The geopolitics of shaming: when human rights pressure works—and when it backfires3
Artificial intelligence and global security: future trends, threats and considerations3
Routledge handbook of historical international relations3
How not to solve a financial crisis3
How the Gulf States are using their air space to assert their sovereignty3
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan 2018–213
States and the masters of capital: sovereign lending, old and new2
Advocacy and change in international organizations: communication, protection, and reconstruction in UN peacekeeping2
Environmentalism and global international society2
Understanding global migration2
Crises of European integration: joining together or falling apart?2
Out of time: the queer politics of postcoloniality2
The world Delhi wants: official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998–20232
How ad hoc coalitions deinstitutionalize international institutions2
The sociology of sovereignty: politics, social transformations and conceptual change2
Whither the Indo-Pacific? Middle power strategies from Australia, South Korea and Indonesia2
Ontological security-seeking: national identities under stress2
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: a study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty2
The International Criminal Court in its third decade: reflecting on law and practices2
The sea and International Relations2
Banking on Beijing: the aims and impacts of China's overseas development program2
Army girls: the secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II2
International Relations and the problem of time2
Civilization as a concept in foreign policy2
Questioning the warist orthodoxy: pacifist critical reflections on Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Colonial policy studies in Japan: racial visions of Nan'yo, or the early creation of a global South2
What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative2
Socialism goes global: the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation2
A matter of time: the role of timing in regulating military weapons2
Polycentrism: how governing works today2
‘We are soldiers now’: green militarism and (foreign-assisted) military training in conservation2
Supreme emergency: how Britain lives with the bomb2
Cybersecurity and International Relations: developing thinking tools for digital world politics2
Contributors2
Books reviewed January 20242
Mao and markets: the communist roots of Chinese enterprise2
Mobile money, (dis)empowerment and state reconstruction in Somalia's conflicted digital economy2
Oil leaders: an insider's account of four decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's global energy policy2
Turkey in Africa: Turkey's strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Alliances, nuclear weapons and escalation: managing deterrence in the 21st century2
The political economy of connectivity in the Somali Horn of Africa2
Hope in the Anthropocene: agency, governance and negation2
African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security2
The crisis of the conservative international order2
Messaging Soleimani's killing: the communication vulnerabilities of authoritarian states2
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime2
Police peacekeeping: the UN, Haiti, and the production of global social order2
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