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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens127
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China73
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations37
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?29
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel24
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe24
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 194521
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War20
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade20
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training20
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic20
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment19
Human Shields and the Gulf War19
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy18
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China17
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–202016
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries16
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies15
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right15
Win-Win Deescalation15
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents15
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism15
“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 Bailouts15
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China14
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
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition13
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises12
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability12
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus11
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy11
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference11
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping10
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations10
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts10
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance9
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda9
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements9
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations9
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures9
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations9
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform8
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict8
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration8
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence7
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment7
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization7
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?7
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case7
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent7
The Gendered Peace Premium7
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence6
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies6
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America6
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue6
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique6
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage6
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets6
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance5
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon5
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument5
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare5
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction5
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation5
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations5
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China5
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
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities5
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion5
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations5
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria4
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry4
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media4
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries4
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War4
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power4
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics4
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism4
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
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform4
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts4
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time4
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology4
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress4
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash4
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation3
Organizations Involved in Humanitarian Action: Introducing a New Dataset3
The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival3
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump3
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea3
The Geography of Separatist Violence3
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy3
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability3
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions3
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections3
Telling Stories of International Relations3
Military Exercises and Network Effects3
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation3
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad3
What Relations Matter?3
The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies3
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance3
China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises3
[W]hat Lies Beneath: Using Latent Networks to Improve Spatial Predictions3
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security3
Is It Friendship? An Analysis of Contemporary German–Israeli Relations3
Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea3
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment3
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes3
Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach3
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders3
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict3
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries3
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership3
Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations2
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment2
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: Arabic Twitter Sentiment toward ISIS and the United States2
National Identity and the Limits of Platform Power in the Global Economy2
The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid2
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies2
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems2
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic2
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds2
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients2
Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War2
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics2
Nuclear Stigma and Deviance in Global Governance: A New Research Agenda2
Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence2
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions2
The Effect of Terrorism on Income Inequality2
Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland2
Symbols of State: Explaining Prestige Projects in the Global South2
Democracy, Autocracy, and the Design of International Organizations2
Replicating the Resource Curse: A Qualitative Replication of Ross 20042
UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands2
Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements2
Emigration and Political Contestation2
Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies2
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Interventionism: How Overseas Military Service Influences Foreign Policy Attitudes2
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC2
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?2
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices2
Foreign Military Training and Socialization: An Examination of Human Capital and Norm Transmission Between Allies2
Costly Concessions, Internally Divided Movements, and Strategic Repression: A Movement-Level Analysis2
Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes2
Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter2
Power Grabs from the Top: A Database of Self-Coups2
Correction to: Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation2
Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict2
Outsourcing Empire: International Monetary Power in the Age of Offshore Finance2
When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS2
When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey2
All Peacekeeping is Local: Measuring Subnational Variation in Peacekeeping Effectiveness2
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons2
Alliances and Civil War Intervention2
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification2
Preferential Trade Agreements and Leaders’ Business Experience2
Gender Wars? Diplomacy as a Depolarizing Practice in International Politics of Gender and Sexuality2
Political Regimes and Refugee Entries: The Preferences and Decisions of Displaced Persons and Host Governments2
Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions2
Mad CoW: A Reply to Gibler and Miller2
Driven to Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence and the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem2
Do Armed Drones Counter Terrorism, Or Are They Counterproductive? Evidence from Eighteen Countries2
Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation?2
Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities2
Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations2
Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks2
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects1
Learning to Fight Together: UN Peacekeeping Coalitions and Civilian Protection1
A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War1
The WTO as Multilateral Diffusion Hub: Institutional Learning in WTO Disputes and the Design of Preferential Trade Agreements1
The IO Effect: International Actors and Service Delivery in Refugee Crises1
The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions1
Where Should Multinationals Pay Taxes?1
Interests, Institutions, and the Environment: An Examination of Fisheries Subsidies1
Checking for Updates: Ratification, Design, and Institutional Adaptation1
Chinese Firms in the US–China Trade War: Decoupling through Reshoring?1
Who Reviews Whom, Where, and Why? Evidence from the Peer Review Process of the OECD Development Assistance Committee1
Narratology and US Foreign Policy in Syria: Beyond Identity Binaries, toward Narrative Power1
Informally Governing International Development: G7 Coordination and Orchestration in Aid1
Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions1
Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Tacit Coalition Behavior among Civil War Actors1
Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars1
How Do Economic Sanctions Affect Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior in Target States? Evidence from China's Economic Sanctions on South Korea1
Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures1
To Arrest or Not Arrest? South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and New Frameworks for Assessing Noncompliance1
Love, Money, or Fame? Determinants of Turkey’s Leader Visits1
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents: Self-Legitimation in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities1
What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions1
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
The Autocracy Bias: Evaluating Democratic Citizens’ Perception of Human Rights Violations in Policy Proposals Abroad1
The Making of “Dominion” Status at the 1907 Imperial Conference: Dissociation, Racialization, and the (Re)Constitution of International Pecking Orders1
From Norm Violations to Norm Development: Deviance, International Institutions, and the Torture Prohibition1
Rescaling Geoeconomics: The Role of Local Illicit Authority in Global Megaprojects1
Great Power Intervention and War1
IMF Lending Programs and Repression in Autocracies1
Understanding Preferences over Borders1
The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions1
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump1
How Bureaucrats Represent Economic Interests: Partisan Control over Trade Adjustment Assistance1
Ties That Bias in International Conflict: A Spatial Approach to Dyadic Dependence from Alliance Ties and Inbetweenness1
Wither Elites? The Role of Elite Credibility and Knowledge in Public Perceptions of Foreign Policy1
Sovereignty Intrusion: Populism and Attitudes toward the International Monetary Fund1
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