International Studies Review

Papers
(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 5. 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
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research60
War without Boots47
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics40
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?35
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars31
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building28
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia22
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue21
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion21
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community19
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces19
Wither the Trade Regime?18
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda18
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire17
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty17
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity14
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?14
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”14
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes13
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?12
The Climate Challenge for International Studies12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies11
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries11
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime11
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights10
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders10
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions9
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press, 9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present9
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together8
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya8
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics7
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence7
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique7
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies7
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence5
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide5
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