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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?79
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China68
Human Shields and the Gulf War36
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations35
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade31
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War30
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment26
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training21
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic21
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy21
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194521
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel20
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival19
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies18
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition18
Win-Win Deescalation18
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right17
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 Populism16
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies16
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid15
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms15
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability15
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China14
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts14
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War14
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents13
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force13
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion13
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?12
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus12
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention12
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping11
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain11
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy11
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation11
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports11
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War11
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations11
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations10
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures10
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration9
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent9
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment9
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace8
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework8
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly7
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies7
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon7
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation7
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets7
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence7
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status7
The Gendered Peace Premium7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique7
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society5
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress5
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
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
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid5
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?5
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power5
Democracy and the Transnational Dimensions of Low-Level Conflict and State Repression5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash4
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
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria4
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.04
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding4
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis4
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War4
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization4
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset4
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform4
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics4
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism4
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset4
Gender, Internal Armed Conflict, and High Court Decision-Making in Transitioning Societies4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy4
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries4
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites4
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries3
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability3
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival3
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises3
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries3
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea3
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset3
What Relations Matter?3
[W]hat Lies Beneath: Using Latent Networks to Improve Spatial Predictions3
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Is It Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German–Israeli Relations3
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict3
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea3
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation3
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics3
Military Exercises and Network Effects3
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions3
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security3
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance3
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy3
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach3
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies3
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders3
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes3
The Geography of Separatist Violence3
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections3
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations2
Alliances and Civil War Intervention2
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict2
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments2
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons2
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries2
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump2
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence2
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?2
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience2
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies2
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS2
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem2
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20042
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness2
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality2
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC2
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients2
Between Deference and Defiance: Hierarchical Status Roles and International Conflict2
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification2
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Arabic Twitter Sentiment toward ISIS and the United States2
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment2
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?2
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy2
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
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups2
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda2
Emigration and Political Contestation2
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies2
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia2
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China2
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings2
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Refugee Flows, Refugee Rights, and Political Violence2
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad2
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions2
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations2
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey2
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Great Power Intervention and War1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
The IO Effect: International Actors and Service Delivery in Refugee Crises1
The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions1
What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions1
Who Reviews Whom, Where, and Why? Evidence from the Peer Review Process of the OECD Development Assistance Committee1
The Autocracy Bias: Evaluating Democratic Citizens’ Perception of Human Rights Violations in Policy Proposals Abroad1
Philanthropic Foundations and Transnational Activist Networks: Ford and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights1
IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies1
Vicious Cycle: Violations of Foreign Nationals’ Rights among CAT Countries1
Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship1
Regime Uncertainty and Interstate Conflict1
“If Foreign, Then Cleaner”: Individual Corruption Perceptions and Support for Free Trade in Developing Nations1
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation1
Blowback: When China’s Belt and Road Initiative Meets Democratic Institutions1
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy1
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures1
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India1
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents: Self-Legitimation in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities1
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?1
Love, Money, or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits1
Does Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Affect Elite Preferences? Evidence from the 2022 US Sanctions against Russia1
One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Micro-Level Impacts of Conflict on Women's Security1
Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions1
Interests, Institutions, and the Environment: An Examination of Fisheries Subsidies1
The Dialectic of the International: Elaborating the Historical Materialism of the Gay Liberationists1
Is the Bad News about Compliance Bad News about Human Rights? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights1
“Peacekeeping Proneness”: Which Type of International System Is Most Likely to Enhance the Supply of Peacekeepers?1
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump1
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement1
Government Choices of Debt Instruments1
Innovation and Interdependence: Evidence from Gene-Editing Technology1
The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions1
Chinese Firms in the US–China Trade War: Decoupling through Reshoring?1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
The WTO as Multilateral Diffusion Hub: Institutional Learning in WTO Disputes and the Design of Preferential Trade Agreements1
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance1
Narratology and US Foreign Policy in Syria: Beyond Identity Binaries, toward Narrative Power1
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects1
Informally Governing International Development: G7 Coordination and Orchestration in Aid1
How Bureaucrats Represent Economic Interests: Partisan Control over Trade Adjustment Assistance1
Understanding Preferences over Borders1
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–20151
How to Hold Unjust Structures Responsible in International Relations1
Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter1
The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–20201
The Effect of Terrorism on Income Inequality1
Correction to: Under No Circumstances? What the Chinese Really Think about the Wartime Use of Nuclear Weapons1
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems1
Foreign Direct Investment in Political Influence1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
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