International Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of International Politics is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage27
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do21
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states21
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China15
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war12
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality11
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy11
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics11
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war10
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security9
Regional powers and the politics of scale9
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments9
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order9
Rethinking multilateralism: domestic incentives of multilateral aid9
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery9
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy8
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy8
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect7
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO7
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China7
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?6
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan6
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty6
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states6
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies6
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?6
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland6
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources6
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy6
The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment5
Director, Global Summitry Project, teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto5
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom5
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia5
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war5
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-195
Russia, NATO and the view from the East5
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia5
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security5
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation5
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations5
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine4
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’4
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?4
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea4
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation4
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control4
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’4
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 19614
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth4
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society4
Between a rock and a hard place: small states, vulnerabilities and Greek foreign policy4
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty3
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations3
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus3
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd3
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)3
Signaling virtue: legitimacy, reputation, and NATO’s strategic communications during the war in Ukraine3
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century3
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power3
Reflections: the UK after Brexit3
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice3
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact3
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy3
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent3
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan3
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments3
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century3
A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions3
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea3
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu3
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon2
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation2
Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad2
From Kantian friendship to Benthamite partnership: transatlantic relations under Donald Trump2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’2
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science2
Israel/Palestine: political futures2
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation2
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century2
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society2
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war2
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy2
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?2
Fear the fear: the historical analogies of COVID-19 in US–China relations2
No exit: why U.S. policy on Europe in counterproductive and what to do about it2
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism2
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights2
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact2
Hierarchy and status: a response2
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account2
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right2
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy2
An apex of the racialization of the world2
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific2
Love, hope, and hopelessness2
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?2
Three histories of the system of states2
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy1
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love1
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction1
The far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present1
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity1
Alliances with Chinese characteristics? The contents and rationale of China’s strategic partnerships1
Expand without dispersing: institutional identity construction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the context of the Russia–Ukraine conflict1
Diplomatic complexity and long-tailed distributions: the function of non-strategic bilateral relations1
The study of international society after Watson1
(Re)theorizing hybrid governance in the Global South: chieftaincy’s resilience and implications for post-pandemic political order in Ghana1
Race in IR: toward empirical study1
Psychology as a system component: the deterrence logic of communication in China1
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America1
Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett1
Political economy of the US-OPEC tussle in the global oil market: understanding Nigeria’s revenue and debt crises1
Consolidating power over others and Grigorescu’s theory in Restraining Power1
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives1
Capital, race and space: Britain’s ‘elsewhere’1
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today1
Ontological (In)security of majorities: introduction1
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school1
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure1
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: a conversation1
Correction to: Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights1
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations1
Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization1
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission1
The Eastern Partnership initiative: challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities1
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect1
Polarization, casualty sensitivity, and military operations: evidence from a survey experiment1
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation1
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific1
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures1
The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions1
White middle-class heterosexual cisgender women’s stories in International Relations: anonymity, whitewashing, and our cleaning labor1
Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift1
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach1
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments1
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School1
Post-war, past Russia: Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, regional unpeace and the imperatives of post-war European security (re)ordering1
Authoritarian Norm Contestation and International Broadcasting: RT’ s norm contestation strategy during the Ukraine Crisis1
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity1
Ontological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?1
“Unifying themes” versus “connections” between domestic and international politics1
The regional powers research program: a new way forward1
Restraining power through courts1
What Watson can teach us about war and order: revisiting The Evolution of International Society1
Writing for justice, reading for absence1
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe1
Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance1
The perceived legitimacy of post-war rights: the case of Kuwaiti resistance1
Global War and the Racial Imaginary0
How Brazil embraced informal organizations0
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption0
Kofi Annan and the United Nations0
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications0
Coping flexibly: role reorientation and the UK’s military cooperation with European allies after Brexit0
Twenty years after Iraq: evaluating the legacy and impact of George W. Bush’s foreign policies0
Settler colonialism, memory politics, and the Trump–Netanyahu deal0
Dark money, US security guarantees and the twisting of allied arms0
Analyzing the shift to the far right: the Austrian case0
To trust or not to trust? ‘Exit’ approaches in EU citizens’ attitudes after Brexit0
Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–19450
Perception and practices: examining the influence of Chinese media exchanges on West African journalists0
Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: Australian conceptions of the China challenge from Hawke to Howard0
Tracing the origins of the new authoritarian protectionism0
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran0
Putting Discourses About the War in Ukraine on a Map: How Different is Everyone’s Story?0
The refrain of settler-colonialism in Decolonising Palestine0
Geopolitical dimension of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a study of states’ media footprint0
The will to do good and the clash of practices: understanding Sudanese sanctions relief0
The concept of ‘self-reliance’ in national defense in South Korea: a study of its interrelationships with the USA since the late 1960s0
Fantasies of cultural sovereignty and national unity: Russia?s ontological (in)security and its assertion of ?spiritual-moral values??0
Always part of a vision? The US and the Israel–Palestinian dispute under George W. Bush and after0
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Exploiting dissent: foreign military interventions in the Arab uprisings0
Why the dissemination of health information via government intervention is enhanced by a Culture-Centered Approach0
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history0
International LGBTQ+  politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?0
Subjectivity, neoliberalism, and global capitalism0
Homo-humanitarianism: queering the Afghan crisis and evacuations0
Unlocking Locke for international relations0
Turkey’s alignment with Qatar—regional and domestic dynamics in an era of multipolarity0
Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation0
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance0
The provision of Arab Gulf aid: The emergence of new donors0
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging0
The UK ‘othered’? External perceptions of Brexit0
The cause of congressional oversight effort in US arms sale plans0
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism0
Rooted globalism0
Guanxism and global politics: a rising paradigm in international relations theory0
Defence industrial power: understanding the UK’s post-Brexit role0
Language, race, civilization: What is (and isn’t) Anglo-America?0
Rebel actors and legitimacy building0
Writing our stories with care and hope0
On the limits of empire0
The Ukraine question: how should the south respond?0
Dark corners of alliance politics: alliance theory concepts and great power competition0
Strategic alignment and power transition: examining Iran’s proxy motives and China’s geopolitics in the Middle East0
Redefining the status quo state: collective support, order-maintenance, and self-restraint0
Havana, Moscow and international crises: implications for asymmetry0
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa0
The relevance and impact of the EaP in Moldova: why local perceptions matter?0
What it means to know: gender differences in how white men and women justify their drug-related political beliefs0
How do middle powers act? Turkey’s foreign policy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine0
Our rule is only temporary: promises of the military after a coup and their influence on domestic and international reactions0
The constitutional context of exceptional courts and state repression0
Joint defence as a European public good0
US foreign and security policy in contemporary Eastern Mediterranean: the return of great power politics in a changing regional environment0
The reputational consequences of polarization for American foreign policy: evidence from the US-UK bilateral relationship0
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine0
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’0
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’: authoritarian protectionism and the end of neoliberal hegemony0
Continuity and change in Yoon Suk Yeol’s positioning of South Korea as a strong, proactive, and global middle power0
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan0
The US–China economic tensions and China’s growing influence in East Asia: Japan’s eclectic approach to the free and open Indo-Pacific0
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach0
Beyond party: ideological convictions and foreign policy conflicts in the US congress0
China’s mask and vaccine diplomacy in Latin America: a success story?0
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics0
Special issue: the European Union and its Eastern Partnership neighbours—a framework to evaluate performance0
Let sleeping bears lie: an analysis of the factors behind Indonesia’s response to the Russo–Ukrainian war and its implications for the Indo-Pacific region0
Correction to: The impact of party conflict on executive ascendancy and congressional abdication in US foreign policy0
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China0
EU identity in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian war: a constructivist analysis of the strategic compass for security and defence0
On the complexities of Christopher Coker and Nicholas Rengger0
Mongolia–Central Asia relations and the implications of the rise of China on its future evolution0
Competing powers and global leadership in the 21st century: can two rivals foster hegemonic stability?0
State–society relations and foreign policy change: suggesting a Gramscian method to link the national with the international0
Correction to: Let sleeping bears lie: an analysis of the factors behind Indonesia’s response to the Russo–Ukrainian war and its implications for the Indo‑Pacific region0
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR0
Global capitalism in/and the global south—introduction to the discussion of Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries0
Are we drowning at the water’s edge? Foreign policy polarization among the US Public0
On dreamworlds, declinism and difference0
Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism0
Unequal justice under law0
The inevitable non-performance of the Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: how regime type matters0
Turkey’s foreign policy toward Israel: co-existing of ideology and pragmatism in the age of global and regional shifts0
Assembling international society0
Israeli foreign policy towards Turkey since 2011: from adverse asymmetry to equivalence?0
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