Review of International Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Review of International Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter35
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics27
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance25
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires20
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM19
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order19
The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance18
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics17
RIS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter16
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation16
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation16
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations16
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda16
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism16
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain15
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority15
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power15
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action15
The agnopolitics of refoulement: Migration diplomacy and the un/knowing of regional refugee deportation to Syria14
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins14
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations14
The future is just another past14
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms14
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter13
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach13
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society12
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter12
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design11
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union11
Order-building from the margins: Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea reconsidered through liminality and competing systems10
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa10
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania10
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment9
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy9
Unknowing the future: Speculative foresight in international institutions and the unexpected ‘origins’ of expertise9
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth9
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection8
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter8
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo8
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights8
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 20748
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality8
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine8
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest7
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age7
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law7
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations7
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism7
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan7
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making6
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM6
RIS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Front matter6
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia6
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine6
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM6
External threats and democratisation: Burma 1988 and South Korea 19876
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression6
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project5
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil5
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity5
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation5
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons5
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia5
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations5
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism5
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR5
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world5
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation5
RIS volume 51 issue 6 Cover and Front matter4
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered4
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf (khalīj) & international society’s expansion4
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work4
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter4
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance4
Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics4
Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders4
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene4
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter4
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM4
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics4
Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia4
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’4
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics4
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential4
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction4
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution4
‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses3
Who forms the mass in mass destruction?3
Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero3
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Front matter3
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations3
The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence – CORRIGENDUM3
A theory of international technology regulation3
Epistemic inertia in human rights expert bodies: Continuity amid pluralisation3
Whose age of anxiety? Provincialising ontological insecurity3
Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks3
RIS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia3
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes3
Restitution of colonial heritage collections: Partial norm implementation in Belgium and the United Kingdom3
Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries3
Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America3
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations3
It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom3
Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties3
For the archive yet to come3
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order3
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions2
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Back matter2
The justice/participation paradox: Rebel-to-party provisions and the dual performativity of confession and political authority2
When criminalisation fails in global politics: Piracy’s unsuccessful recognition as an international crime2
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security2
The terrestrial trap: International Relations beyond Earth2
American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory2
The voice of youth? Performative liminality and the ambiguities of political representation in global governance2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Gothic humanitarianism: Moving beyond the securitised approach to migration while embracing fear2
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe2
A house divided: Feminist and conservative NGOs’ legitimacy beliefs about the United Nations2
Music gonna teach: Decolonising IR through a musical exploration of knowledge2
Contested sites of solidarity: Refugee simulations as simulacra2
Destructive plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of childhood malnutrition2
RIS volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter2
Not anxious enough: The discursive articulation of ontological security in the European Parliament2
World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige2
Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal?2
RIS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis – CORRIGENDUM2
Before astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the question of cosmic colonisation2
Thinking freedom relationally: Life projects and care as an ethical orientation for International Studies2
International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria2
Are propagandists combatants? Analysing the ethical status of propagandists in warfare2
Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual2
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany2
Making peace within hierarchy: Seeing international peacemaking, world order, and history from Cameroon2
Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory1
Heartfelt truths: Towards an existentialist ethics of war1
Race and systemic crises in international politics: An agenda for pluralistic scholarship1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption1
Post-growth peacebuilding1
History in the plural: Reconfigurations of past–present–future1
Editorial1
AI and the future of IR: Disentangling flesh-and-blood, institutional, and synthetic moral agency in world politics1
Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea1
RIS volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question1
Democracy, diversity, and disavowal: Tracing colonial lineages in India’s long wars1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)1
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation1
The 19th-century ‘antiquities rush’ and the international competition for cultural status1
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan1
Sustaining gender: Natural resource management, conflict prevention, and the UN Sustaining Peace agenda in times of climate catastrophe1
A contextual approach to decolonising IR: Interrogating knowledge production hierarchies1
IR's Roads to Freedom: Rereading Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy as an International Relations text1
The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality – CORRIGENDUM1
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders1
Dreaming the plague: Experiencing the pandemic present, experimenting with Anthropocene temporalities1
Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs1
RIS volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963) – ERRATUM1
Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender1
RIS volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Locating agency in normative change: Bohuslav Ečer, the UNWCC, and individual criminal responsibility for aggression1
‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture1
Images of international thinkers1
Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism, and the Freedom Convoy: The Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation1
RIS volume 50 issue 6 Cover and Front matter1
Heidegger’s heritage: The temporal politics of authenticity, then and now1
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action - ERRATUM1
Post-growth theories in a global world: A comparative analysis1
Emerging norms and international change: The responsibility not to veto and its impact on the Security Council1
Nuclear weapons, existentialism, and International Relations: Anders, Ballard, and the human condition in the age of extinction1
On struggle as experiment: Foucault in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial movement intellectuals, for a new approach to theory1
State gender and ontological dislocation: Gendering Iran’s revolutionary identity and nuclear behaviour1
Conspiracy theory as counter-securitization: Contestation and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic1
On the horizon: The futures of IR1
The Black Fantastic in International Relations1
Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance1
Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order1
Green Pan-Africanism: Normative power and the making of a regional sustainability order1
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics1
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-191
Towards an anti-colonial aesthetic politics: Surrealist praxis and epistemic refusal1
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