International Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of International Politics 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage27
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states24
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do20
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality17
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics17
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China15
Grievability and civilian harm in Weaponizing Civilian Protection14
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war13
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy12
Turkey’s Diplomatic Maneuverability in a Multipolar World Order: A system Dynamic Simulation11
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security11
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order11
Rethinking multilateralism: domestic incentives of multilateral aid11
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war10
The ambit of transitional justice9
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy9
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments9
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China9
Regional powers and the politics of scale9
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies8
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland7
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan7
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO7
From regulatory inertia to strategic vulnerability: a neoclassical realist analysis of Britain’s critical minerals under-balancing7
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?7
Evergreen questions in transitional justice7
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?7
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect7
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources7
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy7
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations6
How can individuals determine the success of statecraft?6
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security6
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation6
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states6
Institutional barriers and pathways to RMB internationalization in a dollar-dominated global financial system6
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia6
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation6
The domestic politics of European responses to Trump’s demands in defence and trade6
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia6
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-196
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war6
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom6
Reconnected normativity: the role of a contesting world society in Arctic science diplomacy5
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation5
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth5
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?5
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine5
A grand strategy narrative of democratic hope: legitimizing the Biden administration’s democracy versus autocracy framework5
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea5
Between a rock and a hard place: small states, vulnerabilities and Greek foreign policy5
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 19615
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’5
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea5
Russia, NATO and the view from the East5
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice4
Authoritarian peace through delegated coercion: the Chechenization model in Russia’s counterinsurgency4
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations4
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?4
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy4
Washington to Brussels: comparative media coverage of the February 2025 Trump and Zelenskyy meeting in Europe and the U.S. Press4
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century4
Gangster diplomacy and the disordering of international society4
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd4
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments4
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)4
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism4
Signaling virtue: legitimacy, reputation, and NATO’s strategic communications during the war in Ukraine4
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century4
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy4
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus4
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control4
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’4
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups4
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan4
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty4
Civilian protection, counterinsurgency, and its intellectual histories4
The self-categorisation recursive loop: explaining the persistence of dichotomies in international relations through China’s rise4
Configurations of Japanese soft power and soft disempowerment in Brazil: implications and challenges4
Reflections: the UK after Brexit4
From Kantian friendship to Benthamite partnership: transatlantic relations under Donald Trump3
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science3
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu3
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy3
China’s strategic approach to the Persian gulf: balancing relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia3
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society3
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power3
Israel/Palestine: political futures3
250 Years of The Wealth of Nations: The Market-State Debate Across Time and Place3
Love, hope, and hopelessness3
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine3
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg3
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness3
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger3
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states3
No exit: why U.S. policy on Europe in counterproductive and what to do about it3
Ambedkar’s Navayana Buddhism: mobilising Buddhism towards an ethical and emancipatory ‘International’3
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific3
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy3
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy3
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School2
The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions2
Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift2
Consolidating power over others and Grigorescu’s theory in Restraining Power2
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love2
Three histories of the system of states2
China’s efforts to increase discourse power in the Arctic and Antarctica through fisheries management2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation2
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact2
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific2
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission2
The far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present2
The study of international society after Watson2
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach2
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon2
The perceived legitimacy of post-war rights: the case of Kuwaiti resistance2
Managing the global ambitions of allies: US approaches to Gulf and Turkish power in Africa2
Hierarchy and status: a response2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right2
An apex of the racialization of the world2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?2
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe2
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments2
Ontological (In)security of majorities: introduction2
Capital, race and space: Britain’s ‘elsewhere’2
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account2
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century2
“Unifying themes” versus “connections” between domestic and international politics1
Unsettling the Hamas taboo: fragments, narrative and the politics of exposure1
Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance1
Identity, status and role in UK foreign policy: Brexit and beyond1
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation1
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity1
Reason and mechanism of U.S. affecting security situation of “Indo-Pacific”: analysis based on perspective of intervention1
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations1
Defense College(s) based in the European Union and their contributions to the development of the common security and defense policy1
White middle-class heterosexual cisgender women’s stories in International Relations: anonymity, whitewashing, and our cleaning labor1
Dissecting pandemic-cum-wartime authoritarianism1
British environmental foreign policy identity post-Brexit: environment and climate policy1
Psychology as a system component: the deterrence logic of communication in China1
Rooted Globalism as a textbook for teaching Arab–Latin American relations1
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy1
Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus1
Diplomatic complexity and long-tailed distributions: the function of non-strategic bilateral relations1
Rethinking remote warfare1
Authoritarian Norm Contestation and International Broadcasting: RT’ s norm contestation strategy during the Ukraine Crisis1
The Forgiveness Project: a conversation about peace activism and the transformative power of story1
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school1
Was Huntington right about Islam after all? The clash of civilizations at 301
Expand without dispersing: institutional identity construction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the context of the Russia–Ukraine conflict1
Alliances with Chinese characteristics? The contents and rationale of China’s strategic partnerships1
Restraining power through courts1
Murdered and missing: description, art, and human rights1
Race in IR: toward empirical study1
The trade-security dilemma and trouble of reasonableness1
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today1
Clash of the ‘Asian giants’: the Sino-Indian battle for leadership of the Global South in the Modi-Xi era1
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity1
Post-war, past Russia: Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, regional unpeace and the imperatives of post-war European security (re)ordering1
The neoliberal roots of authoritarian protectionism1
What Watson can teach us about war and order: revisiting The Evolution of International Society1
A secretary and a reluctant general1
The Eastern Partnership initiative: challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities1
Governmentality in the liberal international order: the responsibilization of small states1
The regional powers research program: a new way forward1
Ambedkar, the Kyoto School, and Japanese Buddhism: on the possibilities and risks of Buddhism1
Correction to: Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights1
A humane analysis of a violent liberal international order1
Ontological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?1
George W. Bush’s religious-moral convictions and the legacy of PEPFAR1
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: a conversation1
The NATO–South Korea strategic alignment and contemporary order-building1
China’s unilateralism and the “alliance allergy” of rising powers1
Un-siloing securitization: an intersectional intervention1
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect1
Beyond homocolonialism: working towards queer decoloniality in Bangladesh1
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure1
Caught between two worlds: Turkey as a hedger1
NATO after the invasion of Ukraine: how the shock changed alliance cohesion1
Writing for justice, reading for absence1
The science of world order1
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures1
Small power strategies under great power competition1
War, diplomacy, and more war: why did the Minsk agreements fail?1
Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett1
Im(perfect) allies: explaining the internal cooperation variance of Russia and the U.S. with their CSTO and NATO partners1
(Re)theorizing hybrid governance in the Global South: chieftaincy’s resilience and implications for post-pandemic political order in Ghana1
Geopolitical enlargement, rebordering and risk: a lens for understanding the EU’s new enlargement policy1
Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization1
Humanitarian rebels? Rebel governance and international humanitarian engagement1
Survival-contingent learning and the diffusion of human rights treaty ratification1
Unsettling settler colonialism: anticolonialism with and against postcolonialism1
Political economy of the US-OPEC tussle in the global oil market: understanding Nigeria’s revenue and debt crises1
Negotiating regional order: regional power influences on nuclear nonproliferation in East Asia1
Ambedkar’s Navayana: an alternative search for justice and equality for Dalits and the world1
Foreign aid, soft power, and domestic government legitimacy: experimental evidence from South Korean aid to Indonesia1
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