International Studies Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of International Studies Quarterly 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad56
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel47
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction36
Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor–State Dispute Settlement33
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–201231
Corrigendum to “Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries”30
Lineage or Legions? Explaining Imperial Rule Duration in the Roman Empire28
Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups28
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment27
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America25
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War22
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194521
Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa20
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders20
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice19
Slow Dissent and Worldmaking beyond Imperial Relations in “Kamer-amère” (Bitter Cameroon)18
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument16
Resisting Lockdown: The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions on Social Unrest16
A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War16
Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Tacit Coalition Behavior among Civil War Actors15
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia15
Memory Entrepreneurship: Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe14
What Relations Matter?14
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations14
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage14
Ideological Topography in World Politics: A Guide to the End of the Unipolar-Homogeneous Moment14
Reputations and Change in International Relations13
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?13
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems13
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention12
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion12
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training12
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force11
Risk Is Relative: Heterogeneous Responses to Institutional Risks for Foreign Investment11
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations11
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes11
Learning to Fight Together: UN Peacekeeping Coalitions and Civilian Protection11
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation11
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade11
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War10
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics10
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes10
Threat Conceptions in Global Security Discourse: Analyzing the Speech Records of the United Nations Security Council, 1990–201910
Human Shields and the Gulf War10
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?9
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition9
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion9
Diffusing Risk: Bureaucratic Agency, UN Security Council Horse-Trading, and the Role of Co-Financing9
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea9
From Norm Violations to Norm Development: Deviance, International Institutions, and the Torture Prohibition9
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises9
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War8
How Do Economic Sanctions Affect Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior in Target States? Evidence from China's Economic Sanctions on South Korea8
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations8
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies8
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory8
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries8
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon8
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China8
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy7
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies7
How Bashar al-Asad Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “War on Terror”7
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China7
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia7
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment7
Do Intergovernmental Organizations Have a Socialization Effect on Member State Preferences? Evidence from the UN General Debate7
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump7
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics6
Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations6
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival6
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence6
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification6
Social Power and the Politics of Reservations and Objections in Human Rights Treaties6
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic6
Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining6
The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas6
Bending the Automation Bias Curve: A Study of Human and AI-Based Decision Making in National Security Contexts6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance6
Alliance Dynamics in the Shadow of Shifting Power6
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies6
Political Obligations of Refugees5
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies5
Diversity without Adversity? Ethnic Bias toward Refugees in a Co-Religious Society5
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States5
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending5
Emigration and Political Contestation5
Government Choices of Debt Instruments5
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition5
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability5
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage5
Infrastructural Geopolitics5
Win-Win Deescalation5
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right5
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises4
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms4
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers4
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society4
Do Foreign Military Deployments Provide Assurance? Unpacking the Micro-Mechanisms of Burden Sharing in Alliances4
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?4
Authoritarian Propaganda Campaigns on Foreign Affairs: Four Birds, One Stone, and the South China Sea Arbitration4
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities4
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity4
Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens4
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports4
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis4
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons4
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid4
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism4
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients4
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid4
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War4
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows4
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents4
No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America4
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms4
Calendar versus Analysis Time: Reanalyzing the Relationship between Humanitarian Aid and Civil Conflict Duration3
The Limits of Enforcement in Global Financial Governance: Blacklisting in FATF as Rational Myth3
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China3
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes3
When Do Diplomatic Protests Boomerang? Foreign Protests against US Arms Sales and Domestic Public Support in Taiwan3
Bureaucracy and Cyber Coercion3
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis3
Spiral to Surveillance: The Effect of INGOs on Levels of Peacekeeper Misconduct3
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?3
Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Counterterrorism Coalitions3
Trading Sovereignty for Self-Determination3
Where Is the Money From? Attitudes toward Donor Countries and Foreign Aid in the Arab World3
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality3
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations3
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies3
Who Securitizes? Climate Change Discourse in the United Nations3
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force3
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts3
Promoting Law Beyond the State3
The Art of Brexit3
Democracy and the Transnational Dimensions of Low-Level Conflict and State Repression3
Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset3
From Political Violence to Political Trust? How Transitional Justice Affects Citizen Views of Government3
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups3
The Politics of Punishment: Why Dictators Join the International Criminal Court3
Race and International Organizations3
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion2
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology2
Order without Victory: International Order Theory Before and After Liberal Hegemony2
The Punisher's Dilemma: Domestic Opposition and Foreign Policy Crises2
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics2
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights2
Toward a Theory of Heteronomy2
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement2
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations2
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention2
How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations2
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid2
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain2
Theorizing Public Performances for International Negotiations2
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference2
Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Contesting State Monologues: Indigenous Grassroots’ Struggles with Prior Consultation Norms in the Peruvian Amazon2
Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracies: A Study of Cases from China and Russia2
Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Singapore's Hedging2
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Child Victims and the Punishment of UN Peacekeepers for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse2
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?2
Inference with Extremes: Accounting for Extreme Values in Count Regression Models2
Fed Up: The Global Ascension of the Federal Reserve in the Era of Migration2
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites2
Has Global Trade Competition Really Led to a Race to the Bottom in Labor Standards?2
All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict2
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization2
The Tyranny of Supply: Natural Resources and Rebel Territorial Control in Civil Conflicts2
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media2
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations2
Political Theology and International Relations: From History to Emancipation2
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus2
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20042
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists2
The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–20202
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?2
Atomic Arguments and Counter-Arguments: How Exposure to Conflicting Information Influences American Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons1
Breaking the Myth of Cyber Doom: Securitization and Normalization of Novel Threats1
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash1
IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies1
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians1
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?1
Public Tolerance of Retributive Violence against Insurgencies1
New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties1
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
Corrigendum to: Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 17? An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Aid Given to Boost Developing Countries? Tax Revenue and Capacity1
Diplomatic Gender Patterns and Symbolic Status Signaling: Introducing the GenDip Dataset on Gender and Diplomatic Representation1
Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas1
Theorizing Infrastructures in Global Politics1
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy1
Fear or Anger? Leaders’ Childhood War Trauma and Interstate Conflict Initiation1
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict1
The Problem with Trade Measurement in International Relations1
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis1
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS1
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?1
“Peacekeeping Proneness”: Which Type of International System Is Most Likely to Enhance the Supply of Peacekeepers?1
Love, Money, or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits1
Distrustful in Domestic Politics, Self-Confident in Foreign Policy: The Populist Paradox, Domain-Specific Attention, and Leadership Trait Analysis1
Between Deference and Defiance: Hierarchical Status Roles and International Conflict1
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation1
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances1
Tribalocracy: Tribal Wartime Social Order and Its Transformation in Southern Syria1
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict1
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Arabic Twitter Sentiment toward ISIS and the United States1
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset1
Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations1
The Effect of Government Repression on Civil Society: Evidence from Cambodia1
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices1
Organizational Bricolage and Insurgent Group Effectiveness in Cities: The Formation and Initial Urban Campaign of the Movement of the 19th of April in Colombia (1973–1980)1
Blowback: When China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions1
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship1
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War1
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy1
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures1
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power1
The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts1
Correction to: Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons1
State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa1
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments1
Gender, Internal Armed Conflict, and High Court Decision-Making in Transitioning Societies1
Traditional Authorities and Strategies in Demands for Self-Determination1
Do Threats or Shaming Increase Public Support for Policy Concessions? Alliance Coercion and Burden-Sharing in NATO1
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance1
Contestation from Below: Status and Revisionism in Hierarchy1
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo1
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence1
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports1
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem1
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria1
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy1
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries1
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence1
Protection for Hire: Cooperation through Regional Organizations1
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance1
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets1
Political Institutions and Global Project Finance Loans1
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