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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations?37
Military Alliances and Public Support for War26
Emotional Labor and the Power of International Bureaucrats23
Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States23
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years: Political Nostalgia and China's Revival of the Silk Road21
Demanding Truth: The Global Transitional Justice Network and the Creation of Truth Commissions21
Breaking the Myth of Cyber Doom: Securitization and Normalization of Novel Threats21
Let's Justify! How Regime Complexes Enhance the Normative Legitimacy of Global Governance20
Infrastructural Geopolitics20
Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics20
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia20
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?20
Authoritarianism as an Institution? The Case of Central Asia19
Resisting Lockdown: The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions on Social Unrest18
The Politics of Aspiration18
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War18
Why International Organizations Commit to Liberal Norms18
Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights18
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset17
Promises under Pressure: Statements of Reassurance in US Alliances17
Angling for Influence: Institutional Proliferation in Development Banking17
Bread Before Guns or Butter: Introducing Surplus Domestic Product (SDP)17
Do Walls Work? The Effectiveness of Border Barriers in Containing the Cross-Border Spread of Violent Militancy17
The Idea of Terror: Institutional Reproduction in Government Responses to Political Violence17
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump16
Leadership Selection in United Nations Peacekeeping15
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries15
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy15
From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security15
Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa14
The Struggle for Minds and Influence: The Chinese Communist Party's Global Outreach14
Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South14
Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict13
The Geopolitical Threat Index: A Text-Based Computational Approach to Identifying Foreign Threats12
Reserving Rights: Explaining Human Rights Treaty Reservations12
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?12
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations12
Contestation before Compliance: History, Politics, and Power in International Humanitarian Law12
Tangled up in Blue: The Effect of UN Peacekeeping on Nonviolent Protests in Post–Civil War Countries11
Why Do Only Some Chairs Act as Successful Mediators? Trust in Chairs of Global Climate Negotiations11
The Increasing Representativeness of International Organizations’ Secretariats: Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997–201511
Can We Predict Armed Conflict? How the First 9 Years of Published Forecasts Stand Up to Reality11
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects11
Excluded Ethnic Groups, Conflict Contagion, and the Onset of Genocide and Politicide during Civil War11
Do Donor Motives Matter? Investigating Perceptions of Foreign Aid in the Conflict in Donbas10
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites10
Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace*10
Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change10
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings10
International Trade and Public Protest: Evidence from Russian Regions10
Foreign Fighters and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence10
Productive Pacifists: The Rise of Production-Oriented States and Decline of Profit-Motivated Conquest9
Technology and Territorial Change in Conflict Settings: Migration Control in the Aegean Sea9
Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don't Influence Peacemaking9
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse: Mineral Ownership and Local Economic Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance9
From Text to Political Positions on Foreign Aid: Analysis of Aid Mentions in Party Manifestos from 1960 to 20159
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization9
Seeing Is Disbelieving: The Depths and Limits of Factual Misinformation in War9
Doubling Down: The Danger of Disclosing Secret Action8
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries8
Securing Reproductive Health: A Matter of International Peace and Security8
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China8
Remaining Seized of the Matter: UN Resolutions and Peace Implementation8
Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East8
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid8
Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Counterterrorism Coalitions8
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery7
From Shame to New Name: How Naming and Shaming Creates Pro-Government Militias7
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid7
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory7
Deterrence in the Cyber Realm: Public versus Private Cyber Capacity7
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment7
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances7
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking7
Sharing Saddles: Oligarchs and Officers on Horseback in Egypt and Tunisia7
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer7
Dispute by Design? Legalization, Backlash, and the Drafting of Investment Agreements7
One without the Other? Prediction and Policy in International Studies7
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians7
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence7
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers7
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War7
Swinging Shale: Shale Oil, the Global Oil Market, and the Geopolitics of Oil7
Generals in the Cabinet: Military Participation in Government and International Conflict Initiation6
From Litigation to Rights: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights6
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference6
Monitoring via the Courts: Judicial Oversight and Police Violence in India6
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence6
State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China6
Life and Limb: New Estimates of Casualty Aversion in the United States6
The Tyranny of Distance: Assessing and Explaining the Apparent Decline in U.S. Military Performance6
To Blame or to Support? Large-scale Insurgent Attacks on Civilians and Public Trust in State Institutions6
Subgroup Differences in Implicit Associations and Explicit Attitudes during Wartime6
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 17? An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Aid Given to Boost Developing Countries’ Tax Revenue and Capacity6
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation5
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?5
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes5
Same as the Old Boss? Domestic Politics and the Turnover Trap5
The Short and Long(er) of It: The Effect of Hard Times on Regional Institutionalization5
Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset5
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump5
Trading Arguments: Opinion Updating in the Context of International Trade Agreements5
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force4
Navigating NGO–Government Relations in Human Rights: New Archival Evidence from Amnesty International, 1961–19864
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly4
When Disasters Hit Civil Wars: Natural Resource Exploitation and Rebel Group Resilience4
Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities4
Theorizing Public Performances for International Negotiations4
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force4
Emigration and Political Contestation4
Do Intergovernmental Organizations Have a Socialization Effect on Member State Preferences? Evidence from the UN General Debate4
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials4
The International Responsibility to Protect in a Post-Liberal Order4
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions4
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization4
All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict4
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China4
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending4
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition4
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia4
A House Divided: Norm Fragmentation in the International Human Rights Regime4
New Dimensions of Global Feminist Influence: Tracking Feminist Mobilization Worldwide, 1975–20154
The Effect of Government Repression on Civil Society: Evidence from Cambodia4
The Financial Consequences of Rating International Institutions: Competition, Collaboration, and the Politics of Assessment4
Emergent Flexibility in Institutional Development: How International Rules Really Change4
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies4
Contesting the Fighter Identity: Framing, Desertion, and Gender in Colombia4
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–20124
Where Is the Money From? Attitudes toward Donor Countries and Foreign Aid in the Arab World3
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad3
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage3
Paradigms and Practice3
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–20153
Battles and Bargains: Escalation, Commitment, and Negotiations in Civil War3
Transnational Advocacy, Norm Regress, and Foreign Compliance Constituencies: The Case of the “Comfort Women” Redress Movement3
Global Club Goods and the Fragmented Global Financial Safety Net3
Names from Nowhere? Fictitious Country Names in Survey Vignettes Affect Experimental Results3
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Refugee Flows, Refugee Rights, and Political Violence3
Who Securitizes? Climate Change Discourse in the United Nations3
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports3
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society3
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises3
Ethnic and Gender Hierarchies in the Crucible of War3
Responsibility-Sharing in Refugee Protection: Lessons from Climate Governance3
Leader Visits and UN Security Council Membership3
Algorithms and Influence Artificial Intelligence and Crisis Decision-Making3
Interests, Institutions, and the Environment: An Examination of Fisheries Subsidies3
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC3
Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Singapore's Hedging3
Order without Victory: International Order Theory Before and After Liberal Hegemony3
The Importance of Correct Measurement: A Response to Palmer, et al3
Alliance Dynamics in the Shadow of Shifting Power3
Why Governments Have Their Troops Trained Abroad: Evidence from Latin America3
Ties That Bias in International Conflict: A Spatial Approach to Dyadic Dependence from Alliance Ties and Inbetweenness3
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset3
The Practices of Evaluating Entitlements: Rethinking “Reputation” in International Politics3
The Imagination and International Relations3
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda3
Transforming Zones of Exclusion to Zones of Inclusion? Local-Level UN Peacekeeping Deployments and Educational Attainment3
Mutual Interventions in Africa3
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right3
Imagined Insecurities in Imagined Communities: Manufacturing the Ethnoreligious Others as Security Threats2
From Norm Violations to Norm Development: Deviance, International Institutions, and the Torture Prohibition2
Multinational Banks and IMF Conditionality2
International Cooperation and Natural Disasters: Evidence from Trade Agreements2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time2
Trade Competition and Worker Compensation: Why Do Some Receive More than Others?2
The Normative Grammar of Relational Analysis: Recognition Theory's Contribution to Understanding Short-Comings in IR's Relational Turn2
Between Deference and Defiance: Hierarchical Status Roles and International Conflict2
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy2
Making Peace or Preventing It? UN Peacekeeping, Terrorism, and Civil War Negotiations2
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition2
International Attention and the Treatment of Political Prisoners2
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea2
Strategic Ontologies: Narrative and Meso-Level Theorizing in International Politics2
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence2
What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions2
Sexual Violence by the State: The Role of Political Institutions in Sexual Violence Perpetration2
The Recognition Dilemma: Negotiating Identity in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict2
A Method for Change. Lacanian Discourse Analysis: A Glimpse into Climate Policy2
Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations2
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Re-Escalation of Lethal Violence2
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence2
Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens2
Restoring Legitimacy: Public Diplomacy Campaigns during Civil Wars2
Collective Deterrence in the Shadow of Shifting Power2
Regime Uncertainty and Interstate Conflict2
The IO Effect: International Actors and Service Delivery in Refugee Crises2
When are International Organizations Responsive to Policy Problems?2
The Free Market as Fantasy: A Lacanian Approach to the Problem of Neoliberal Resilience2
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets2
Give Peace a Plan: Peace Plans as Diplomatic Tools and Textual Agents in Conflict Areas2
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Arabic Twitter Sentiment toward ISIS and the United States1
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China1
Corrigendum to: Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics1
Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor–State Dispute Settlement1
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping1
Toward a Theory of Heteronomy1
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis1
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations1
Enemies in the Shadows: On the Origins and Survival of Clandestine Clients1
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness1
Social Power and the Politics of Reservations and Objections in Human Rights Treaties1
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis1
Love, Money, or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits1
Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups1
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments1
Emergency Powers and the Heterogeneity of Terror in Democratic States1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon1
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation1
Memory Entrepreneurship: Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe1
Determinants of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Meta-Reanalysis Distinguishing Two Classes of Zero Observations1
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations1
How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations1
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists1
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War1
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling1
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case1
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism1
The Domestic Impact of International Standards1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 19451
The Determinants of Uncertainty in International Relations1
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies1
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?1
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument1
Public Tolerance of Retributive Violence against Insurgencies1
How Do Economic Sanctions Affect Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior in Target States? Evidence from China's Economic Sanctions on South Korea1
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts1
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology1
The Problem with Trade Measurement in International Relations1
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict1
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification1
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict1
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents1
Stall Wars: When Do States Fight to Hold onto the Status Quo?*1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
When Do Diplomatic Protests Boomerang? Foreign Protests against US Arms Sales and Domestic Public Support in Taiwan1
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey1
Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Tacit Coalition Behavior among Civil War Actors1
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry1
Risk Is Relative: Heterogeneous Responses to Institutional Risks for Foreign Investment1
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