International Relations

Papers
(The median citation count of International Relations 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
Foreign policy change as rhetorical politics: domestic-regional constellation of Global South states20
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic12
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 194110
Bringing the climate into existence10
International/inter-carbonic relations9
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing9
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates8
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile7
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics7
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations7
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right6
Separatists, state subjectivity, and fundamental ontological (in)security in international relations6
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face6
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy6
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis6
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion6
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations6
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism6
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs5
China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses5
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know5
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model5
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly5
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries5
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety5
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity4
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy4
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order4
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR4
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR3
Assemblages of conflict termination: popular culture, global politics and the end of wars3
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh3
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan3
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis3
Wartime in the 21st century3
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection3
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management3
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory3
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime3
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes3
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf2
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War2
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics2
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?2
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing2
‘We watched his whole life unfold. . .Then you watch the death’: drone tactics, operator trauma, and hidden human costs of contemporary wartime2
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-192
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens2
Interventions of post-colonial states in the normative structure of world politics: the case of Iran and the norm of democracy2
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism2
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution2
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics2
Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics2
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations2
Educating the United States on the ‘China threat’2
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s2
Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I2
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy2
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations2
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism2
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror2
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?2
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade2
Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case2
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements1
Central Europe: bringing a forgotten realm to Global International Relations1
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly1
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity1
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below1
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine1
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments1
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR1
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban1
The reactionary internationale: the rise of the new right and the reconstruction of international society1
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives1
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries1
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR1
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors1
When contestation legitimizes: the norm of climate change action and the US contesting the Paris Agreement1
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?1
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation1
‘Broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond1
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective1
The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics1
Migrant stories meet great power rivalry? US media narratives of post-pandemic Chinese asylum seekers, 2022–20231
A threshold account of last resort in the ethics of war1
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise1
The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations1
Wartime, professional military education, and politics1
Animalising International Relations1
The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid1
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi1
Domestic terrorism, incumbency, and legislative vote shares1
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