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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage34
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states23
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do21
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality18
Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism17
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China12
Correction to: How closely aligned are China and Russia? Measuring strategic cooperation in IR12
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy11
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics10
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war10
Sanctioned terror: economic sanctions and more effective terrorism10
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy9
Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control8
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments8
Regional powers and the politics of scale8
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery8
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies7
The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment7
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect7
Introduction: Narendra Modi and India’s foreign policy7
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?7
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty7
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy7
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security7
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China7
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy7
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO7
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order7
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war7
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources6
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan6
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?6
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland6
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation5
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states5
Finding the water’s edge: when negative partisanship influences foreign policy attitudes5
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war5
Narendra Modi government’s neighbourhood policy5
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security5
Director, Global Summitry Project, teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto5
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia5
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
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-194
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation4
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea4
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation4
Russia, NATO and the view from the East4
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine4
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 19614
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations4
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth4
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’4
A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions3
Transitional justice and small states: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tunisia3
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg3
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy3
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact3
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century3
Blurred lines: the convergence of military and civilian uses of AI & data use and its impact on liberal democracy3
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice3
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control3
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus3
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger3
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy3
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea3
Congressional polarization and limitation riders in foreign aid appropriations3
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?3
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society3
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty3
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century3
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups3
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments3
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)3
Reflections: the UK after Brexit3
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd3
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’3
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status2
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu2
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan2
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights2
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored2
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon2
Three histories of the system of states2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right2
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy2
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy2
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?2
Love, hope, and hopelessness2
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race2
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?2
Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad2
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society2
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power2
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent2
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific2
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine2
Fear the fear: the historical analogies of COVID-19 in US–China relations2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century2
An apex of the racialization of the world2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation2
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science2
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy2
‘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
‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf1
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School1
Polarization, casualty sensitivity, and military operations: evidence from a survey experiment1
International law is dead, long live international law: the state practice of drone strikes1
The regional powers research program: a new way forward1
Consolidating power over others and Grigorescu’s theory in Restraining Power1
The Eastern Partnership initiative: challenges of assessing performance and new geopolitical realities1
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction1
What Watson can teach us about war and order: revisiting The Evolution of International Society1
Leading sectors and polarity change in the context of US–China competition: a process-based analysis of the origins of polarity shift1
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives1
The importance of rational institutionalism in the analysis of informal international institutions1
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today1
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments1
AI-enabled remote warfare: sustaining the western Warfare paradigm?1
Hierarchy and status: a response1
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission1
Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization1
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations1
The ASEAN way and the changing security environment: navigating challenges to informality and centrality1
The study of international society after Watson1
White middle-class heterosexual cisgender women’s stories in International Relations: anonymity, whitewashing, and our cleaning labor1
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America1
Psychology as a system component: the deterrence logic of communication in China1
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect1
The untold story of civil society organizations’ contribution to peacebuilding in Lesotho1
Capital, race and space: Britain’s ‘elsewhere’1
Writing for justice, reading for absence1
Imperial policy of the Russian Federation versus cohesion and coherence of NATO’s new strategic concept1
Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance1
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach1
Historical analogies and general theoretical schemes in the study on contemporary international relations: anachronism or opportunity?1
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact1
Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett1
The far right in the Global South, geopolitical conflict, and the fascist present1
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure1
Race in IR: toward empirical study1
Modi sticks to India’s nuclear path1
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school1
Post-war, past Russia: Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, regional unpeace and the imperatives of post-war European security (re)ordering1
Not so remote drone warfare1
Ontological vs. societal security: same difference or distinct concepts?1
“Unifying themes” versus “connections” between domestic and international politics1
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy1
The perceived legitimacy of post-war rights: the case of Kuwaiti resistance1
Institutional strategies in regional role location process: ASEAN, China, and great power management in ADMM Plus1
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific1
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: a conversation1
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love1
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity1
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe1
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures1
The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue1
Restraining power through courts1
Defence industrial power: understanding the UK’s post-Brexit role0
Rebel actors and legitimacy building0
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history0
Twenty years after Iraq: evaluating the legacy and impact of George W. Bush’s foreign policies0
EU identity in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian war: a constructivist analysis of the strategic compass for security and defence0
Mongolia–Central Asia relations and the implications of the rise of China on its future evolution0
Language, race, civilization: What is (and isn’t) Anglo-America?0
Fantasies of cultural sovereignty and national unity: Russia?s ontological (in)security and its assertion of ?spiritual-moral values??0
Redefining the status quo state: collective support, order-maintenance, and self-restraint0
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa0
Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: securitization through association0
The concept of ‘self-reliance’ in national defense in South Korea: a study of its interrelationships with the USA since the late 1960s0
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance0
How do middle powers act? Turkey’s foreign policy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine0
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption0
Global War and the Racial Imaginary0
The relevance and impact of the EaP in Moldova: why local perceptions matter?0
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and changes in MEPs’ conceptions of security0
Networks of order in East Asia: Beyond hegemonic theories of the Liberal International Order0
Our rule is only temporary: promises of the military after a coup and their influence on domestic and international reactions0
From nonproliferation to strategic competition: US export controls and China0
Small states, great expectations: Portuguese foreign policy toward Turkish accession to the European Union0
Tracing the origins of the new authoritarian protectionism0
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China0
The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine0
China’s mask and vaccine diplomacy in Latin America: a success story?0
Putting Discourses About the War in Ukraine on a Map: How Different is Everyone’s Story?0
Israeli foreign policy towards Turkey since 2011: from adverse asymmetry to equivalence?0
Correction to: The impact of party conflict on executive ascendancy and congressional abdication in US foreign policy0
Has BRICS lost its appeal? The foreign policy value added of the group0
Iraq’s popular mobilisation units: intra-sectarian rivalry and Arab Shi’a mobilisation from the 2003 invasion to Covid-19 pandemic0
The reputational consequences of polarization for American foreign policy: evidence from the US-UK bilateral relationship0
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics0
Writing our stories with care and hope0
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR0
The will to do good and the clash of practices: understanding Sudanese sanctions relief0
State–society relations and foreign policy change: suggesting a Gramscian method to link the national with the international0
The US–China economic tensions and China’s growing influence in East Asia: Japan’s eclectic approach to the free and open Indo-Pacific0
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran0
Influencing the United States: is the game worth the candle for junior allies?0
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan0
Organizing European security in yet another geopolitical era: consensus escapism or compartmentalized multilateralism?0
Turkey’s foreign policy toward Israel: co-existing of ideology and pragmatism in the age of global and regional shifts0
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications0
Homo-humanitarianism: queering the Afghan crisis and evacuations0
On dreamworlds, declinism and difference0
Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism0
Settler colonialism, memory politics, and the Trump–Netanyahu deal0
The inevitable non-performance of the Eastern Partnership in Azerbaijan: how regime type matters0
The provision of Arab Gulf aid: The emergence of new donors0
Why the dissemination of health information via government intervention is enhanced by a Culture-Centered Approach0
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’0
Revisionism revisited: developing a typology for classifying Russia and other revisionist powers0
Dark money, US security guarantees and the twisting of allied arms0
Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation0
To trust or not to trust? ‘Exit’ approaches in EU citizens’ attitudes after Brexit0
Competing powers and global leadership in the 21st century: can two rivals foster hegemonic stability?0
What it means to know: gender differences in how white men and women justify their drug-related political beliefs0
From ‘I won’t protect you’ to ‘I will’: authoritarian protectionism and the end of neoliberal hegemony0
Exploiting dissent: foreign military interventions in the Arab uprisings0
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
The survival of small states in the Gulf region: COVID-19, pandemic politics and the future of niche diplomacy0
Unequal justice under law0
Could humanitarian intervention fuel the conflict instead of ending it?0
The constitutional context of exceptional courts and state repression0
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach0
Havana, Moscow and international crises: implications for asymmetry0
Forward to the 1980s: US strategic trade in the world order0
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
Always part of a vision? The US and the Israel–Palestinian dispute under George W. Bush and after0
When aid NGOs embrace the human rights-based approach: human rights norms, religiosity, and civic culture0
Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–19450
International LGBTQ+  politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?0
Facilitating crisis: Hungarian and Slovak securitization of migrants and their implications for EU politics0
Declining hegemony and the sources of Trump’s disengagement from multilateral trade governance: the interaction between domestic politics and the international political economy0
Kofi Annan and the United Nations0
Assembling international society0
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging0
The cause of congressional oversight effort in US arms sale plans0
Special issue: the European Union and its Eastern Partnership neighbours—a framework to evaluate performance0
How Brazil embraced informal organizations0
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