Monday, December 20, 2021

New Issue: International Studies Review

The latest issue of International Studies Review (Vol. 23, no. 4, December 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Analytical Essays
    • Harald Edinger, Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis
    • Beverley Loke, The United States, China, and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in East Asia
    • Julia Fleischer & Nina Reiners, Connecting International Relations and Public Administration: Toward A Joint Research Agenda for the Study of International Bureaucracy
    • Mariano E Bertucci, Habits and Policy: The Social Construction of Foreign Policymaking Processes
    • Felix Anderl, Priska Daphi, & Nicole Deitelhoff, Keeping Your Enemies Close? The Variety of Social Movements’ Reactions to International Organizations’ Opening Up
    • Deepak Nair, “Hanging Out” while Studying “Up”: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork in International Relations
    • Adi Schwartz & Eytan Gilboa, False Readiness: Expanding the Concept of Readiness in Conflict Resolution Theory
    • Cecilia Jacob, Regulatory Contestation: Steering toward Consistency in International Norm Implementation
    • Tanja Marie Hansen, Fifty Shades of Terrorist Credit-Taking: A Review of the Existing Scholarship on Terrorist Credit-Taking
    • Xiaoting Li, Saving National IR from Exceptionalism: The Dialogic Spirit and Self-Reflection in Chinese IR Theory
    • Leslie E Wehner & Cameron G Thies, Leader Influence in Role Selection Choices: Fulfilling Role Theory's Potential for Foreign Policy Analysis
    • Konstantinos Travlos, Insulating Peace: Managerial Coordination in Durable Security Complexes
    • Paul Beaumont & Ann E Towns, The Rankings Game: A Relational Approach to Country Performance Indicators
    • Ezgi Irgil, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Myunghee Lee, Charmaine N Willis, & Kelebogile Zvobgo, Field Research: A Graduate Student's Guide
    • Silvia D'Amato, Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel
    • Mariya Y Omelicheva & Lawrence P Markowitz, Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence
    • Marc-Olivier Cantin, Pathways to Violence in Civil Wars: Combatant Socialization and the Drivers of Participation in Civilian Targeting
    • Elsa Hedling & Niklas Bremberg, Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy: Toward a New Research Agenda
    • Nitasha Kaul, The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
    • Özgür Özdamar & Evgeniia Shahin, Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward
    • Amir Lupovici, The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research
    • Monalisa Adhikari, Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process
    • Kathryn M Fisher & Christopher McIntosh, Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure
    • Dillon Stone Tatum, Toward a Radical IR: Transformation, Praxis, and Critique in a (Neo)Liberal World Order
    • Roberta N Haar & Jonathan J Pierce, Foreign Policy Change from an Advocacy Coalition Framework Perspective
    • Jessica F Green & Jennifer Hadden, How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations
    • Hai Yang, Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic
    • Abbas Farasoo, Rethinking Proxy War Theory in IR: A Critical Analysis of Principal–Agent Theory
    • Tobias Lenz, Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism
    • Dahlia Simangan, Ayyoob Sharifi, & Shinji Kaneko, Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions: An Analytical Framework
  • Forum
    • Simon Frankel Pratt, Sebastian Schmidt, Deborah Avant, Molly Cochran, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Henry Farrell, Jack Knight, & Gunther Hellmann, Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing
    • Monika Heupel, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Markus Patberg, Astrid Séville, Jens Steffek, & Jonathan White, Emergency Politics After Globalization
    • Maria Koinova, Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, Frank Gadinger, Zeynep Sahin Mencutek, Jan Aart Scholte, & Jens Steffek, It's Ordered Chaos: What Really Makes Polycentrism Work
    • T D Harper-Shipman, K Melchor Quick Hall, Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn, & Mamyrah A Dougé-Prosper, FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR
    • Niklas Karlén, Vladimir Rauta, Idean Salehyan, Andrew Mumford, Belgin San-Akca, Alexandra Stark, Michel Wyss, Assaf Moghadam, Allard Duursma, Henning Tamm, Erin K Jenne, Milos Popovic, David S Siroky, Vanessa Meier, Alexandra Chinchilla, Kit Rickard, & Giuseppe Spatafora, Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars