International Studies Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of International Studies Quarterly is 2. 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
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy134
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens78
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe37
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations32
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?25
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China25
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade24
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War23
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194523
Human Shields and the Gulf War23
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel22
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic20
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training20
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment19
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China18
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force17
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries17
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance17
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right16
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202016
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism15
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents15
Win-Win Deescalation15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid15
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts14
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China14
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises13
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival13
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms13
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability12
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies12
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping11
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference11
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy11
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?11
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies10
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts10
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain10
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda10
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations9
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations9
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports9
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace8
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict8
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?7
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly7
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment7
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent7
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization7
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case7
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence7
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status6
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion6
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets6
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation6
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare6
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique6
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?6
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations6
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies6
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion6
The Gendered Peace Premium6
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies5
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations5
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms5
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States5
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid5
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts4
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology4
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics4
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset4
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria4
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets4
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries4
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis4
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy4
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict4
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites4
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.04
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media4
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash4
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances4
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism4
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea3
The Geography of Separatist Violence3
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea3
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict3
[W]hat Lies Beneath: Using Latent Networks to Improve Spatial Predictions3
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections3
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset3
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?3
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump3
Can International Advocacy Rally Public Support for Human Rights Sanctions? Experimental Evidence from the United States3
What Relations Matter?3
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries3
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation3
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach3
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability3
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions3
Telling Stories of International Relations3
Military Exercises and Network Effects3
Emigration and Political Contestation3
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad3
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes3
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises3
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival3
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance3
Is It Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German–Israeli Relations3
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy3
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies3
Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories3
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients3
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment3
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics3
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders3
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments2
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller2
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities2
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy2
Is the Bad News about Compliance Bad News about Human Rights? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights2
Individuals, Disaggregation of the State, and Negotiation Tactics: Evidence from the European Union2
Negotiating Difficult Issues with Little Fervour? Why Peace Processes in Territorial Conflicts Tend to Produce Incomplete Outcomes2
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance2
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence2
Lacanian Biopolitics of COVID-192
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC2
Into the Fray: Explaining State Support for Non-Violent Resistance Movements Abroad2
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations2
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem2
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes2
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements2
Vicious Cycle: Violations of Foreign Nationals’ Rights among CAT Countries2
The Effect of Terrorism on Income Inequality2
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience2
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations2
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump2
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey2
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies2
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions2
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda2
Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations2
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War2
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions2
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality2
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis2
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups2
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid2
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness2
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation2
Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks2
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS2
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment2
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?2
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries2
Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes2
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20042
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict2
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic2
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons2
Alliances and Civil War Intervention2
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