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Your silence speaks volumes: Weak states and strategic absence in the UN General Assembly Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Julia C. Morse, Bridget Coggins
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The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Lauren Ferry, Cleo O’Brien-Udry
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Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Katherine M. Beall
Why would weak states accept rules which authorize strong states to take coercive action against them? I argue that, in some cases, this is a way of creating constraints over the exercise power in the form of procedural checks, or rules delineating the process through which power can legitimately be exercised. If stronger states become willing to exercise power against weak states in the absence of
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UNIFIL’s “Blue Line” Demarcation: Spatial Ordering, Political Subjectivity, and Settler Colonialism in South Lebanese Borderlands International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Susann Kassem
This article offers an ethnographic account of ongoing border conflicts in south Lebanon between members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and residents in a south Lebanese border village. It emphasizes the specific experiences of this border population with foreign intervention and land expropriations. It places UNIFIL’s current intervention in a long history of Western imperialism
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The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Chungshik Moon, Youngwan Kim, Da Sul Kim
s While the shadow economy seems to have both positive and negative effects on a country’s macroeconomy, almost all governments have attempted to control the shadow economy to prevent the loss of tax revenues and the attendant impact on the government budget. Even though official development assistance (ODA) has no formal link with the shadow economy, we often observe a relationship between the two
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Peace with Adjectives: Conceptual Fragmentation or Conceptual Innovation? International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel, Anna Jarstad, Elisabeth Olivius, Johanna Söderström, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Malin Åkebo
What strategies can be employed to conceptualize peace? In recent years, scholars have introduced an impressive array of “peace with adjectives” in order to make sense of some of the normative and empirical underpinnings of peace. Negative, positive, everyday, virtual, illiberal, partial, insecure, relational, emancipatory, agonistic, and feminist are some of the qualifiers that have been associated
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A Threat to Cohesion: Intragroup Affective Polarization in the Context of Intractable Intergroup Conflict Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Tal Orian Harel, Nimrod Nir, Daan Vandermeulen, Ifat Maoz, Eran Halperin
Growing affective polarization, or animosity between competing ideological groups, threatens to tear apart democratic societies worldwide. In nations that are facing external conflicts, the threat arising from these conflicts may boost internal cohesion and potentially reduce the internal threat of fragmentation. However, in the current study, we analyze survey datasets from two societies embedded
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Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Hyunjung Park
Rebel groups often develop governance during war by establishing administrative structures, engaging in taxation, and providing social services to the local population. Rebel governance structures, however, vary depending on the extent to which they include participatory arrangements. Some rebel groups allow civilian participation in their governance during the war, while others have highly hierarchical
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Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Monica Fagioli, Debora V Malito
This Special Issue questions the problem of international interventions’ persistence and multidimensionality by asking what makes interventions still relevant and for whom. In this introduction, we advance a dialectical understanding of interventions to study their diverse modalities and enduring mechanisms of order-making, with specific attention to space, time, and scale. We elaborate on Laura Doyle's
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“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Renanah Miles Joyce, Theodore McLauchlin, Lee Seymour
s Foreign military training has become a key component of the United States’ security policy. What explains the variation in US training allocation across countries and over time? Past work on security assistance, such as training, focuses on its effectiveness and consequences, largely overlooking questions about which countries receive it in the first place. To understand what drives US military training
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The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Andrew Lugg, Sloan Lansdale, Shannon Carcelli
This paper introduces new data on the creation of subsidiary bodies (SBs) by members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) between 1972 and 2020. Delegation to SBs is one of the principal means through which the UNSC acts, and these bodies are designed to carry out crucial functions such as peacekeeping, implementing sanctions, and investigating crises. Yet, no research has systematically evaluated
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Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Debora V Malito, Muhammad Dan Suleiman
How is the space for contemporary interventions constructed? This article deepens our understanding of counterterrorism as a dialectical form of intervention by highlighting the importance of unifying rationalities in the creation of “ungoverned spaces” as abstract spaces for intervention purposes. We combine dialectical and decolonial thinking to track how unifying rationalities in Nigeria and Libya
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Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Elizabeth Acorn, Michael O Allen
Can prosecutions by US authorities help spread enforcement of foreign bribery laws to other countries? In this article, we explore this question by re-examining earlier scholarship that found that US prosecutions of foreign corporations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) increase the likelihood that the corporation's home state will enforce its own foreign bribery laws. Using a conditional-frailty
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Network analysis of international cooperation in space 1958–2023: Evidence of space blocs Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Svetla Ben-Itzhak
The future of international cooperation in outer space was questioned when, in January 2022, Russia announced that it intended to leave the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024. A symbol of post-Cold War reconciliation, the station has linked Washington and Moscow even when relations on the ground frayed. The ISS has become a bedrock of international cooperation, having welcomed 276 individuals
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Traditional Authorities, Norm Collisions, and Communal Conflict Journal of Conflict Resolution (IF 3.211) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Clara Neupert-Wentz
I examine the effect of the policing capacity of traditional authorities (TAs) on communal conflict. TAs of ethnic groups use distinct customary laws and dispute-resolution mechanisms. Their coexistence with national norms and those of other TAs results in parallel legal systems. I argue that this generates uncertainties about norms and vertical and horizontal jurisdictional conflict, which increases
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Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Saliha Metinsoy
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The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Hye-Ryoung Jung
This article has two aims: (1) to identify the causal effect of income inequality on civil conflict and (2) to find the mechanism in which disadvantaged individuals can mobilize collective violence. Applying the Heckscher-Ohlin and Stopler-Samuelson theorems, this study hypothesizes that workers in land-rich countries – those who face contracted demand in the labor market and consequently a larger
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Complexities of State-Building in Somaliland International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Monica Fagioli
s Since the mid-2000s, state-building in Somaliland has emerged as a complex mixture of coexisting, competing programs, political aspirations, and foreign agendas. This article applies a dialectical approach to focus on the scalar relations among actors and models of capacity-building, from programs’ design to their implementation. Drawing on science and technology studies, I use the term “complexities”
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The Transit Fix—Border Externalization and the Interplay of Capital and Race in the Transit “Migration” State International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Timor Landherr
What happens after border externalization? States and regional organizations of the Global North increasingly engage in transnational migration management that seeks to prevent potential irregular migration beyond their territory. Despite the impressive financial and political resources the involved actors mobilize to reach this goal, little is known about the effects of this strategy on their target
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The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Luis L Schenoni, Gary Goertz, Andrew P Owsiak, Paul F Diehl
s After the Napoleonic Wars interstate war regularly occurred throughout the Western Hemisphere—until in matter of decades it disappeared. After the 1930s even low-level militarized interstate conflict became less frequent, shorter, and less severe over time. What explains the change in this specific region and historical jucture? We argue that leaders in the Americas identified territorial disputes
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Sweetening the liberalization pill: flanking measures to free trade agreements Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Noémie Laurens, Christian Winkler, Cédric Dupont
Free trade agreement (FTA) negotiators increasingly face pressure from domestic interest groups, including environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil activists and labor unions. As ...
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Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jasmine K Gani, Rabea M Khan
s Declaration of positionality and the confession of privilege as a way of revealing unequal power dynamics in knowledge production has become an increasingly encouraged reflexive practice in international relations and other disciplines. However, we interrogate the potentially negative implications of this methodology, occurring through a reification of material, assumed, and imagined hierarchies
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Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Elsa Hedling
European Union (EU) diplomatic representation in third countries is performed by both the Member States and by the EU Delegation. This hybrid system of representation functions through EU coordination. As social media have become important channels of state representation, coordination also takes place in the domain of digital diplomacy. This article analyzes how the EU Member State embassies and the
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Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Inken von Borzyskowski, Felicity Vabulas
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The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Joe Gazeley
s Through a close textual analysis of US diplomatic cables and other relevant documents, this article provides new empirical data to trace the mutual construction of Mali as a site of terrorist threat. It argues that this mutual construction paradoxically enhanced the agency of Malian foreign policy elites in negotiations with their US interlocutors and highlights the effectiveness of Malian deployment
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Foreign Sponsorship of Armed Groups and Civil War International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Michael A Rubin, Iris Malone
s Under what conditions do armed groups escalate their campaigns to civil war? Existing research suggests foreign states’ material support is critical to explaining armed groups' conduct during civil war and, thereby, war intensification, duration, and outcomes. Thus far, little attention has been paid to understanding whether and how foreign support influences whether armed groups fight civil wars
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Credibility in Crises: How Patrons Reassure Their Allies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Lauren Sukin, Alexander Lanoszka
s How do citizens of US allies assess different reassurance strategies? This article investigates the effects of US reassurance policies on public opinion in allied states. We design and conduct a survey experiment in five Central–Eastern European states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania—in March 2022. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this experiment asked respondents
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Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Daniel Auer, Max Schaub
s In many regions of the world, liberal politics is on the retreat. This development is usually explained with reference to inherently political phenomena. We propose an alternative explanation, linking democratic backsliding to deep-reaching demographic change caused by mass emigration. We argue that because migrants tend to be more politically liberal, their departure, if quantitatively significant
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‘A sense of the systemic’: the Bank of England and the language of inclusive capitalism Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Adam Blanden
Successive crises – social, environmental and political – have led some in global governance circles to advocate a more ‘inclusive capitalism’. In this article, I show how this postcrisis language ...
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Compliance Agreements: Emergent Flexibility in the Inter-American Human Rights System International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Mariana Brocca, Isabel Anayanssi Orizaga Inzunza
Are agreements between states and victims an effective way to achieve reparations for human rights violations? We identify and evaluate a legal instrument hitherto ignored in analyses of the Inter-American Human Rights System: compliance agreements. These agreements emerged as a tool to negotiate the implementation of recommendations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to states responsible
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Bending the Automation Bias Curve: A Study of Human and AI-Based Decision Making in National Security Contexts International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Michael C Horowitz, Lauren Kahn
Uses of artificial intelligence (AI) are growing around the world. What will influence AI adoption in the international security realm? Research on automation bias suggests that humans can often be overconfident in AI, whereas research on algorithm aversion shows that, as the stakes of a decision rise, humans become more cautious about trusting algorithms. We theorize about the relationship between
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Colonial Redress and the Unintended Consequences of Global Opportunities International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Claudia Junghyun Kim
Research shows that the rise of political and discursive opportunities enabled by the diffusion of progressive global norms has empowered many aggrieved local actors. Drawing on colonial victims’ transnational redress movements, I add to this literature in two ways. First, rejecting the common association between global opportunities and local movement facilitation and success, I make a counterintuitive
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Terrorists versus Rebels: The Strategic Use of Implicit Amnesty in the Peace Process in Mali International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Sophie T Rosenberg
Why do governments block efforts to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable, including against actors linked to proscribed groups? This article explores the Malian government’s decisions to support or suspend accountability efforts against prominent individuals during the peace negotiations between 2012 and 2017, including those with links to jihadist groups. By tracing the micro-processes
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No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Francesca Lessa, Lorena Balardini
Transnational repression, i.e., the deliberate targeting of refugees and dissidents by states across borders, is a relatively understudied subject in international relations. This article analyzes why states act together to persecute political opponents abroad and explains variations in such practices. It proposes a theory of cooperation in transnational repression and uses the case study of Operation
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Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Daniel Fittante
Scholars often emphasize how right-wing political actors in Europe use memory laws to undermine democratic traditions and revise historical accounts. But a broad range of political actors (with diverse motivations) support memory laws. Synthesizing research in international political sociology and memory politics, this analysis examines the relational and social practices of diplomats from small states
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Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions? International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Claas Mertens
Existing research shows that economic coercion successfully influences targeted states’ behavior 38 percent of the time. This article integrates research on economic sanctions and foreign aid by assessing the relative effectiveness of two types of economic coercion: economic sanctions and foreign aid suspensions. It argues that suspending aid is more effective than adopting economic sanctions because
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Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Farsan Ghassim
Public views on international organizations (IOs) have become a matter of central concern. While actors in world politics increasingly try to legitimize or delegitimize IOs, scholars have begun investigating such phenomena systematically. This paper provides the most comprehensive IO (de)legitimation study to date. Building on cueing theory, and considering input as well as output legitimacy, I examine
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Elitist Remedies? Complaint Resources and Representation in International Human Rights Bodies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Christoph Valentin Steinert
This article investigates determinants of representation in international human rights bodies. It is argued that socioeconomic factors shape whether human rights abuses translate into complaints to international human rights mechanisms. To seek international remedy, victims of human rights abuse must be aware of remedies, and they require complaint literacy to file complaints. Alternatively, they need
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The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Hiroto Sawada
The debate on whether military humanitarian intervention and anti-atrocity norms, such as the responsibility to protect, cause perverse incentives, and provocative violence by a rebel group, has yet to reach a consensus. Specifically, existing theories are unable to fully explain why “emboldened” rebel groups provoke the government in some cases but not others. This paper reconciles this unresolved
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Diversity without Adversity? Ethnic Bias toward Refugees in a Co-Religious Society International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Anna Getmansky, Konstantinos Matakos, Tolga Sinmazdemir
What shapes the host population’s willingness to accept refugees into social, economic, and political life in their country? We argue that refugees’ ethnicity plays a key role—both directly and indirectly—in shaping support for having refugees as neighbors and for granting them a work permit or citizenship. Fielding a conjoint experiment in Turkey (N = 2,362), we find that locals discriminate against
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Public Opinion, Rivalry, and the Democratic Peace: Experimental Evidence from South Korea International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Gidong Kim, Yu Bin Kim, Dongjin Kwak
Recent studies on the public opinion mechanism of the democratic peace have demonstrated experimentally that democratic citizens are averse to attacking other democracies. The presence of rivalry, however, has long been recognized as one of the important factors contributing to either initiation or recurrence of international conflict. Despite such importance, our understanding remains limited as to
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Economic Globalization's Polycrisis International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Eric Helleiner
In this article, I suggest that economic globalization is experiencing a particularly serious kind of crisis: a “polycrisis.” Use of this term has proliferated recently but with many meanings. I propose that it be defined as a cluster of distinct crises that interact in ways that they and/or their effects tend to reinforce each other. This core definition enables the identification of distinct types
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Rebel Institutionalization, Religious Holidays, and Political Violence International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Xin Nong, Chun-Ying Wu
Identifying a clear relationship between rebel group structures and the use of violence faces the challenge that group structures rarely change over time. We exploit the analytical advantage provided by long religious holidays to address this issue using the principal-agent framework. Religious holidays serve as a focal point and reduce group coordination costs, but also raise the societal costs of
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Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Aditi Sahasrabuddhe
How do policymakers respond to global crises? I argue that interpersonal trust enables policymakers to engage in ad hoc cooperation, in conditions of crisis and uncertainty. Leaders’ differentiated ties by degree—of stronger, looser, or absent—interpersonal trust influenced economies’ access to Federal Reserve swap lines over costlier unilateral and multilateral alternatives during the 2008 Global
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Informally Governing International Development: G7 Coordination and Orchestration in Aid International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Ben Cormier, Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg
s Informal groupings like the G7 aim to address global development challenges but lack the administrative and budgetary capacity to drive change directly. Instead, the G7 seeks to catalyze international action that reflects its priorities. For example, the G7 attempts to set the international development agenda by publishing annual communiqués with actionable commitments designed to influence the behavior
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Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Alyssa K Prorok, Benjamin Appel, Shahryar Minhas
What explains the initiation and escalation of International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement in a situation? In light of growing charges of bias against the court, understanding the determinants of ICC involvement is critically important. Building upon research on bounded discretion at international courts, we argue that two potentially competing forces influence the court. While prioritizing impartiality
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Race and International Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Kseniya Oksamytna, Sarah von Billerbeck
While International Relations scholarship has increasingly addressed questions of race, the literature on international organizations (IOs) has been slower to do so. In particular, it has neglected how race functions within IO workforces. Building on sociological theories of racialized organizations, we develop the concept of racialized IOs. Like domestic organizations, racialized IOs are characterized
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The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020 Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lauren L. Ferry, Alexandra O. Zeitz
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Cyber scares and prophylactic policies: Cross-national evidence on the effect of cyberattacks on public support for surveillance Journal of Peace Research (IF 3.713) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Amelia C Arsenault, Sarah E Kreps, Keren LG Snider, Daphna Canetti
While conventional terrorism has long been associated with enhanced support for surveillance, scholars have not determined whether variation in the type and outcome of terror attacks, including those emanating from cyberspace, influences public support for these policies. Further, existing studies typically examine public opinion in a single country, thereby failing to investigate cross-national trends
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How Institution-Building Shapes Great Power Alignment: An Institutional Perspective on the China–Russia Partnership The Chinese Journal of International Politics (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Björn Alexander Düben
Sino-Russian relations have thrived in the post–Cold War era. While the relationship has attracted ample academic attention, many of the underlying factors contributing to the bilateral rapprochement over the past three decades remain un(der)explored. This article examines the role played by one of the factors involved in this process: the development of institutional links between the two states.
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Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Deepak Nair
The concept of habitus is a centerpiece of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology and is among the most popular conceptual imports into the Bourdieu-inspired “practice turn” in International Relations (IR). There have, however, been recurrent questions whether IR work using habitus and Bourdieu mainly “re-describe in different language” what scholars already know about world politics. This article argues
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The Language of Responsibility in the United Nations Security Council, 1946–2020 International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Felix S Bethke, Felix Haass, Holger Niemann
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the United Nations' most powerful institutional body, charged with the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.” The main instrument through which the Council asserts this power is its resolutions, specifically by using resolution text to attribute responsibility. The UNSC uses responsibility language to assign tasks
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Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 J C Sharman
Four centuries of precolonial diplomatic, economic, and military African–European relations have been neglected in international relations. Refuting common presumptions about European dominance, before, during, and after the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade, African rulers and merchants were generally in a position of equality or superiority in their relations with Europeans. Contrary to expectations
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Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Abigail S Post, Todd S Sechser
Theories of crisis bargaining suggest that costly signals can enhance the credibility of one’s coercive threats. In particular, engaging in conspicuous military mobilizations or demonstrations of force are thought to communicate one’s resolve in a crisis. Yet, there is disagreement about why this might be the case. One set of theories emphasizes the hand-tying political and reputational effects of
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Effective climate clubs require ambition, leverage and insulation: Theorizing issue linkage in climate change and trade Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sam S. Rowan
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The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Abstract While international historians and policy practitioners regularly highlight the utility of multilateral diplomacy as a quintessential “strategy of the weak,” International Relations (IR) scholars have generally downplayed the impact of diplomatic choices. The tools within IR theory to assess the impact of diplomacy remain underdeveloped, contributing to an inability to account for a highly
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The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ramaa Vasudevan
This paper investigates how the concrete operation of the gold-exchange standard in colonial India imposed a process of financial subordination embedding colonial India in the currency hierarchy of...
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The Diplomacy of Whataboutism and US Foreign Policy Attitudes International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Wilfred M. Chow, Dov H. Levin
Does whataboutism work in global affairs? When states face international criticism, they often respond with whataboutism: accusing their critics of similar faults. Despite its prevalence in policy discussions, whataboutism remains an understudied influence strategy. This study investigates how states use whataboutism to shape American public opinion across various international issues. We find, using
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Courting Civilians During Conflict: Evidence from Taliban Judges in Afghanistan International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Donald Grasse, Renard Sexton, Austin Wright
Rebels regularly provide public services, especially legal services, but the consequences of such programs are unclear. We argue that rebel courts can boost civilian support for insurgency and augment attack capacity by increasing the legitimacy of the rebellion, creating a vested interest in rebel rule, or enabling rebel coercion of the civilian population. We study the impact of the Taliban's judiciary
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Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Lou Pingeot, Vincent Pouliot
Why are some practices available to some actors in world politics, but not to others? In this theory note, we develop a theory of agency as positionally distributed: In global politics, the action potentials of groups and individuals vary depending on their location in the macrostructures inherited from common histories of colonial domination and exploitation. We contribute to the understanding of