New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 23, no. 3, September 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Katharina P Coleman, Magnus Lundgren, & Kseniya Oksamytna, Slow Progress on UN Rapid Deployment: The Pitfalls of Policy Paradigms in International Organizations
• Johanna Söderström, Malin Åkebo, & Anna K Jarstad, Friends, Fellows, and Foes: A New Framework for Studying Relational Peace
• Tyler Evans, Daniel J Milton, & Joseph K Young, Choosing to Fight, Choosing to Die: Examining How ISIS Foreign Fighters Select Their Operational Roles
• Elise Rousseau & Stephane J Baele, “Filthy Lapdogs,” “Jerks,” and “Hitler”: Making Sense of Insults in International Relations
• Janine Natalya Clark, Beyond “Bouncing”: Resilience as an Expansion–Contraction Dynamic within a Holonic Frame
• Sara McLaughlin Mitchell & Elise Pizzi, Natural Disasters, Forced Migration, and Conflict: The Importance of Government Policy Responses
• Courtenay R Conrad & Nathan W Monroe, Legislative Process in International Organizations
• Gerasimos Tsourapas, Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics
• Mathis Lohaus & Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Who Publishes Where? Exploring the Geographic Diversity of Global IR Journals
• Allard Duursma, Pinioning the Peacekeepers: Sovereignty, Host-State Resistance against Peacekeeping Missions, and Violence against Civilians
• Cesare M Scartozzi, Reframing Climate-Induced Socio-Environmental Conflicts: A Systematic Review
• Yuna Han & Sophie T Rosenberg, Claiming Equality: The African Union's Contestation of the Anti-Impunity Norm
• Shpend Kursani, Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations: An Ontological Approach
• Julia Kreienkamp & Tom Pegram, Governing Complexity: Design Principles for the Governance of Complex Global Catastrophic Risks
• Matthew D Stephen, China's New Multilateral Institutions: A Framework and Research Agenda
• Michiel van Ingen, Sublating the Naturalism/Anti-Naturalism Problematic: Critical Realism, Critical Naturalism, and the Question of Methodology
• Tore Fougner, Engaging the “Animal Question” in International Relations
• Juan Masullo, Refusing to Cooperate with Armed Groups Civilian Agency and Civilian Noncooperation in Armed Conflicts
• Jørgen Møller, Medieval Origins of the European State System: The Catholic Church as Midwife
• Eric Helleiner, The Return of National Self-Sufficiency? Excavating Autarkic Thought in a De-Globalizing Era
• Marcel Kaba, NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Review across the Engaged Disciplines

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 23, no. 2, June 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Multiple Identities and Scholarship in a Global IR: One Profession, Many Voices
• Feliciano de Sá Guimarães, Soo Yeon Kim, & Cameron G Thies, Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue “Multiple Identities and Scholarship in International Studies”
• Giovanni Agostinis, Karen A Grépin, Adam Kamradt-Scott, Kelley Lee, Summer Marion, Catherine Z Worsnop, Ioannis Papagaryfallou, Andreas Papamichail, Julianne Piper, Felix Rothery, Benny Cheng Guan Teh, Terri-Anne Teo, & Soo Yeon Kim, FORUM: COVID-19 and IR Scholarship: One Profession, Many Voices
• Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, Multiple Identities and Scholarship: Black Scholars’ Struggles for Acceptance and Recognition in the United States of America
• Dorothée Vandamme, Bringing Researchers Back In: Debating the Role of Interpretive Epistemology in Global IR
• Arlene B Tickner & Amaya Querejazu, Weaving Worlds: Cosmopraxis as Relational Sensibility
• Monika Thakur, Navigating Multiple Identities: Decentering International Relations

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 23, no. 1, March 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Falin Zhang, Rising Illusion and Illusion of Rising: Mapping Global Financial Governance and Relocating China
• Jens Steffek, Marcus Müller, & Hartmut Behr, Terminological Entrepreneurs and Discursive Shifts in International Relations: How a Discipline Invented the “International Regime”
• Eleanor Gordon, The Researcher and the Researched: Navigating the Challenges of Research in Conflict-Affected Environments
• Richard Maher, International Relations Theory and the Future of European Integration
• Christoph Trinn & Thomas Wencker, Integrating the Quantitative Research on the Onset and Incidence of Violent Intrastate Conflicts
• Quintijn B Kat, Subordinate-State Agency and US Hegemony: Colombian Consent versus Bolivian Dissent
• Rhys Crilley, Where We At? New Directions for Research on Popular Culture and World Politics
• Anthony Pahnke, Regrounding Critical Theory: Lenin on Imperialism, Nationalism, and Strategy

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 22, no. 4, December 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Michal Onderco, Collaboration Networks in Conference Diplomacy: The Case of the Nonproliferation Regime
• Charlotta Friedner Parrat, Change in International Society: How Not to Recreate the “First Debate” of International Relations
• Milton L Mueller, Against Sovereignty in Cyberspace
• Holly L Guthrey, Microlevel Security after Armed Conflict: A New Framework for Analyzing Risks and Benefits of Peacebuilding Processes
• Maiken Gelardi, Moving Global IR Forward—A Road Map
• Jonathan Kent, Kelsey P Norman, & Katherine H Tennis, Changing Motivations or Capabilities? Migration Deterrence in the Global Context
• Dylan M H Loh, Institutional Habitus, State identity, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Rakhyun E Kim, Is Global Governance Fragmented, Polycentric, or Complex? The State of the Art of the Network Approach
• Amal Jamal, Ontological Counter-securitization in Asymmetric Power Relations: Lessons from Israel
• Brieg Powel, Blinkered Learning, Blinkered Theory: How Histories in Textbooks Parochialize IR

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 22, no. 3, September 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Swati Srivastava, Varieties of Social Construction
• Ingvild Bode, Women or Leaders? Practices of Narrating the United Nations as a Gendered Institution
• Alexander Anievas & Richard Saull, Reassessing the Cold War and the Far-Right: Fascist Legacies and the Making of the Liberal International Order after 1945
• Thorsten Wojczewski, Populism, Hindu Nationalism, and Foreign Policy in India: The Politics of Representing “the People”
• Yuichi Kubota, The Rebel Economy in Civil War: Informality, Civil Networks, and Regulation Strategies
• Ricardo Villanueva, How Norman Angell Reveals the Significance of Marxism and Socialism in Early IR and a Debate before the “First Great Debate”
• Rodger A Payne, Grappling with Dr. Strangelove’s “Wargasm” Fantasy
• Daniel Lambach, The Territorialization of Cyberspace
• Linus Hagström & Astrid H M Nordin, China's “Politics of Harmony” and the Quest for Soft Power in International Politics
• Benjamin M Jensen, Christopher Whyte, & Scott Cuomo, Algorithms at War: The Promise, Peril, and Limits of Artificial Intelligence
• Jörn Ege, Michael W Bauer, & Nora Wagner, Improving Generalizability in Transnational Bureaucratic Influence Research: A (Modest) Proposal
• Ingo Henneberg & Friedrich Plank, Overlapping Regionalism and Security Cooperation: Power-Based Explanations of Nigeria's Forum-Shopping in the Fight against Boko Haram
• Daniel Hywel Nicholls, All Hegemons Are Not the Same: The Role(s) of Relational Structures and Modes of Control
• Radoslav S Dimitrov, Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
• Esra Cuhadar & Thania Paffenholz, Transfer 2.0: Applying the Concept of Transfer from Track-Two Workshops to Inclusive Peace Negotiations
• Shamel Azmeh, Christopher Foster, & Jaime Echavarri, The International Trade Regime and the Quest for Free Digital Trade
• Michelle Jurkovich, What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 22, no. 2, June 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Re-visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress
• Nukhet Sandal & Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Re-visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress
• Michael R Pfonner & Patrick James, The Visual International Relations Project
• Derek Beach & Jonas Gejl Kaas, The Great Divides: Incommensurability, the Impossibility of Mixed-Methodology, and What to Do about It
• Lee Demetrius Walker, Communication Inefficiencies and Research Validity in International Studies
• Noelle K Brigden & Anita R Gohdes, The Politics of Data Access in Studying Violence across Methodological Boundaries: What We Can Learn from Each Other?
• Stefano Guzzini, Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
• Zeynep Gulsah Capan, Beyond Visible Entanglements: Connected Histories of the International

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 22, no. 1, March 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Jonas Schneider, The Study of Leaders in Nuclear Proliferation and How to Reinvigorate It
• Adam Kochanski, The “Local Turn” in Transitional Justice: Curb the Enthusiasm
• Nicole Deitelhoff & Lisbeth Zimmermann, Things We Lost in the Fire: How Different Types of Contestation Affect the Robustness of International Norms
• Seanon S Wong, Mapping the Repertoire of Emotions and Their Communicative Functions in Face-to-face Diplomacy
• Nicolás Terradas, The Quest for Order in Anarchical Societies: Anthropological Investigations
• Dustin N Sharp, Positive Peace, Paradox, and Contested Liberalisms
• Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard, Contesting Frames and (De)Securitizing Schemas: Bridging the Copenhagen School's Framework and Framing Theory

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 21, no. 4, December 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Adam B Lerner, Theorizing Collective Trauma in International Political Economy
• Orit Gazit, Van Gennep Meets Ontological (In)Security: A Processual Approach to Ontological Security in Migration
• Jennifer Thomson, The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda and Feminist Institutionalism: A Research Agenda
• Amnon Aran & Leonie Fleischmann, Framing and Foreign Policy—Israel's Response to the Arab Uprisings
• Andrew Delatolla & Joanne Yao, Racializing Religion: Constructing Colonial Identities in the Syrian Provinces in the Nineteenth Century
• Jenny Hedström, Confusion, Seduction, Failure: Emotions as Reflexive Knowledge in Conflict Settings
• Gëzim Visoka, Critique and Alternativity in International Relations
• Sarah Smith, The Production of Legitimacy: Race and Gender in Peacebuilding Praxis

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 21, no. 3, September 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Tobias Ide, The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence
• Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Reification in IR: The Process and Consequences of Reifying the Idea of International Society
• Maria Mälksoo, The Transitional Justice and Foreign Policy Nexus: The Inefficient Causation of State Ontological Security-Seeking
• Rosemary Foot & Evelyn Goh, The International Relations of East Asia: A New Research Prospectus
• Joseph M Grieco, The Schools of Thought Problem in International Relations
• Quan Li, The Second Great Debate Revisited: Exploring the Impact of the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in International Relations
• Ryan M Katz-Rosene, The Treatment of Global Environmental Change in the Study of International Political Economy: An Analysis of the Field's Most Influential Survey Texts
• Marcus Schulzke, Drone Proliferation and the Challenge of Regulating Dual-Use Technologies
• Susan T Jackson, A Turning IR Landscape in a Shifting Media Ecology: The State of IR Literature on New Media

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 21, no. 2, June 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Power of Rules and Rule of Power
• Faten Ghosn & Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, Power of Rules and Rule of Power
• Brett Ashley Leeds, J Ann Tickner, Colin Wight, & Jessica De Alba-Ulloa, Forum: Power and Rules in the Profession of International Studies
• Douglas Lemke, Do International Rules and Norms Apply to Nonstate Actors?
• Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Ruling from the Shadows: The Nature and Functions of Informal International Rules in World Politics
• Monica Herz & Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Democracy Questions Informal Global Governance
• Beth A Simmons, Border Rules

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 17, no. 4, December 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Analytical Essay: Evaluation, Synthesis, Reflections
• Betcy Jose & Peace A. Medie, Understanding Why and How Civilians Resort to Self-Protection in Armed Conflict
• Elias Steinhilper, From “the Rest” to “the West”? Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Western Bias in Norm Diffusion Research
• David Traven, Moral Cognition and the Law and Ethics of Armed Conflict
• Boaz Atzili & Anne Kantel, Accepting the Unacceptable: Lessons from West Germany's Changing Border Politics
• J. Samuel Barkin, On the Heuristic Use of Formal Models in International Relations Theory
• Michiel Foulon, Neoclassical Realism: Challengers and Bridging Identities
• The Forum: Globalization, Politics, and the Poor
• Nita Rudra & Kristen Skillman, Introduction—Globalization, Politics, and the Poor
• Helen V. Milner & Nita Rudra, Globalization and the Political Benefits of the Informal Economy
• Edmund J. Malesky, Transfer Pricing and Global Poverty
• Pablo Beramendi & Erik Wibbels, Globalization, Public Finance, and Poverty
• Daniel Nielson, Promoting Exports, Preventing Poverty: Toward a Causal Evidence Base

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 17, no. 3, September 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Adam Bower, Norms Without the Great Powers: International Law, Nested Social Structures, and the Ban on Antipersonnel Mines
• Philippe Bourbeau, Resilience and International Politics: Premises, Debates, Agenda
• Richard Jackson, Terrorism, Taboo, and Discursive Resistance: The Agonistic Potential of the Terrorism Novel
• Marcus Holmes & David Traven, Acting Rationally Without Really Thinking: The Logic of Rational Intuitionism for International Relations Theory
• Mark Pearcey, Sovereignty, Identity, and Indigenous-State Relations at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: A Case of Exclusion by Inclusion

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 17, no. 2, June 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Joseph MacKay & Jamie Levin, Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR
• Juliet Kaarbo, A Foreign Policy Analysis Perspective on the Domestic Politics Turn in IR Theory
• David Maher, The Fatal Attraction of Civil War Economies: Foreign Direct Investment and Political Violence, A Case Study of Colombia
• Ilai Z. Saltzman, Honor as Foreign Policy: The Case of Israel, Turkey, and the Mavi Marmara
• Sanjoy Banerjee, Rules, Agency, and International Structuration

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 17, no. 1, March 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization
• Zaryab Iqbal & Harvey Starr, Introduction: Spaces and Places: Geopolitics in an Era of Globalization
• Andreas Forø Tollefsen & Halvard Buhaug, Insurgency and Inaccessibility
• Andrew M. Linke, Sebastian Schutte & Halvard Buhaug, Population Attitudes and the Spread of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Matthew Powers, Bryce W. Reeder & Ashly Adam Townsen, Hot Spot Peacekeeping
• Kyle Beardsley & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Peacekeeping as Conflict Containment
• Clionadh Raleigh, Urban Violence Patterns Across African States
• Andrew M. Linke & John O'Loughlin, Reconceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Distance and Context in the Study of Conflicts: Using Survey Data from the North Caucasus of Russia

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 16, no. 2, June 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Etel Solingen & Tanja A. Börzel, Introduction to Presidential Issue: The Politics of International Diffusion—A Symposium
• Erika Forsberg, Diffusion in the Study of Civil Wars: A Cautionary Tale
• Richard Rosecrance, The Partial Diffusion of Power
• Merouan Mekouar, No Political Agents, No Diffusion: Evidence from North Africa
• Wilfred Wan, Firewalling Nuclear Diffusion
• Aida A. Hozic, Between “National” and “Transnational”: Film Diffusion as World Politics
• Cintia Quiliconi, Competitive Diffusion of Trade Agreements in Latin America
• David Zweig & Feng Yang, Overseas Students, Returnees, and the Diffusion of International Norms into Post-Mao China
• Robyn Klingler-Vidra & Philip Schleifer, Convergence More or Less: Why Do Practices Vary as They Diffuse?
• Benjamin E. Goldsmith, The East Asian Peace as a Second-Order Diffusion Effect

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 16, no. 1, March 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Analytical Essays: Evaluation, Synthesis, Reflections
Gregorio Bettiza, Civilizational Analysis in International Relations: Mapping the Field and Advancing a “Civilizational Politics” Line of Research
• Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Democracy-Support Effectiveness in “Fragile States”: A Review
• Andrew P. Owsiak, Conflict Management Trajectories in Militarized Interstate Disputes: A Conceptual Framework and Theoretical Foundations
• Tanisha M. Fazal & Ryan D. Griffiths, Membership Has Its Privileges: The Changing Benefits of Statehood

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 15, no. 4, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Analytical Essays: Evaluation, Synthesis, Reflections
• Michael D. Ward, Nils W. Metternich, Cassy L. Dorff, Max Gallop, Florian M. Hollenbach, Anna Schultz & Simon Weschle, Learning from the Past and Stepping into the Future: Toward a New Generation of Conflict Prediction
• Milan Babík, Realism as Critical Theory: The International Thought of E. H. Carr
• Allison M. Shelton, Szymon M. Stojek & Patricia L. Sullivan, What Do We Know about Civil War Outcomes?
• Quddus Z. Snyder, Taking the System Seriously: Another Liberal Theory of International Politics
• The Forum
• Hélène Trudeau, Isabelle Duplessis, Suzanne Lalonde, Thijs Van de Graaf, Ferdi De Ville, Kate O'Neill, Charles Roger, Peter Dauvergne, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Sebastian Oberthür, Amandine Orsini, Frank Biermann, Hiroshi Ohta & Atsushi Ishii, Insights from Global Environmental Governance

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 15, no. 3, September 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Lilach Gilady & Matthew J. Hoffmann, Darwin's Finches or Lamarck's Giraffe, Does International Relations Get Evolution Wrong?
• Andrey Makarychev & Viatcheslav Morozov, Is “Non-Western Theory” Possible? The Idea of Multipolarity and the Trap of Epistemological Relativism in Russian IR
• David A. Hughes, Liberal Warfare: A Crusade Twice Removed
• Timothy J. Junio & Thomas G. Mahnken, Conceiving of Future War: The Promise of Scenario Analysis for International Relations
• The Forum
• The Decline of War

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 15, no. 2, June 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Costas M. Constantinou, Between Statecraft and Humanism: Diplomacy and Its Forms of Knowledge
• Sarah S. Stroup & Wendy Wong, Come Together? Different Pathways to International NGO Centralization
• Emily Meierding, Climate Change and Conflict: Avoiding Small Talk about the Weather
• Amir Lupovici, Pacifization: Toward a Theory of the Social Construction of Peace
• Cian O'Driscoll, Why Don't You Tell Us About Them Rabbits, George? The Tragedy of Just War
• Steven Kettell & Alex Sutton, New Imperialism: Toward a Holistic Approach
• Daniel S. Geller & Paul F. Diehl, The Forum: Reflections and Reassessments on the Early Work and Ideas of J. David Singer

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 15, no. 1, March 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Relationships in the Information Age
• Beth A. Simmons, Preface
• J. P. Singh, Information Technologies, Meta-power, and Transformations in Global Politics
• Archon Fung, Hollie Russon Gilman & Jennifer Shkabatur, Six Models for the Internet + Politics
• Muzammil M. Hussain & Philip N. Howard, What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
• Susan K. Sell, Revenge of the “Nerds”: Collective Action against Intellectual Property Maximalism in the Global Information Age
• Milton Mueller, Andreas Schmidt & Brenden Kuerbis, Internet Security and Networked Governance in International Relations
• Myriam Dunn Cavelty, From Cyber-Bombs to Political Fallout: Threat Representations with an Impact in the Cyber-Security Discourse
• Nicholas J. Cull, The Long Road to Public Diplomacy 2.0: The Internet in US Public Diplomacy