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The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative Research International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jonas Tallberg, Eva Erman, Markus Furendal, Johannes Geith, Mark Klamberg, Magnus Lundgren
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a technological upheaval with the potential to change human society. Because of its transformative potential, AI is increasingly becoming subject to regulatory initiatives at the global level. Yet, so far, scholarship in political science and international relations has focused more on AI applications than on the emerging architecture of global AI regulation
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Sourcing and Bias in the Study of Coups: Lessons from the Middle East International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Salah Ben Hammou, Jonathan Powell, Bailey Sellers
The last two decades have seen an increased focus on reporting bias in large-N datasets. Research on coups d’etat has similarly increased given the availability of coup datasets. This essay argues that while the availability of such data has pushed scholarship forward, the data collection process behind these efforts remains plagued with limitations common to event datasets. Rather than building on
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What Do We Know about How Armed Conflict Affects Social Cohesion? A Review of the Empirical Literature International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Charlotte Fiedler
How does armed conflict affect the social fabric of societies? This question is central if we want to understand better why some countries experience repeated cycles of violence. In recent years, considerable scientific work has been put into studying the social legacies of armed conflict. This article brings these academic studies together in a novel way, taking a holistic perspective and analyzing
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Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Elise Stephenson, Susan Harris Rimmer
Intelligence services are important sites of contestation, often the foci of reform and calls for greater transparency. Yet, while growing attention has been paid to intersectionality, gender equality reform, and progress in other areas of international affairs, little of this same transparency and attention has been paid to diversity in the intelligence sector. This paper seeks to bridge the gap,
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Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Max Lesch
International organizations (IOs) dispatch fact-finding missions to establish epistemic authority by objectively and impartially assessing contested facts. Despite this technocratic promise, they are often controversial and sometimes even fuel international disputes that challenge the epistemic authority of the dispatching organizations. Although the twenty-first century has witnessed a proliferation
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Deterrence through Inflicting Costs: Between Deterrence by Punishment and Deterrence by Denial International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Amir Lupovici
The strategy of deterrence by denial is widely used by different actors. Despite its prominence, however, the scholarship on deterrence by denial stands to be developed further. It lags behind scholarship on deterrence by punishment on two points: in identifying the conditions under which the strategy works and in examining elements affecting its adoption. Deterrence by denial also carries some conceptual
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How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts? International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Reyko Huang, Kanchan Chandra, Evgeny Finkel, Richard A Nielsen, Mara Redlich Revkin, Manuel Vogt, Elisabeth Jean Wood
Despite significant advances in our understanding of the politics of religious ideology and identity across time and space, scholars disagree on how to conceptualize “religious” conflicts and “religious” actors, and how to infer religious motivations from actors’ behavior. This Forum brings together scholars with diverse research agendas to weigh in on conceptual, methodological, and ethical questions
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Escaping or Reinforcing Hierarchies? Norm Relations in Transitional Justice International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Jinú Carvajalino, Maja Davidović
The global project of transitional justice (TJ) traditionally has been packaged in a multi-pillar model with criminal justice, truth recovery, reparations, institutional reform, and memorialization, and the norms they enshrine, seemingly presented as interventions of equivalent status at the level of policy. This article aims to enhance the theorizing on TJ as a “norm cluster” by comparatively examining
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Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Thomas Juneau
Neoclassical realism has carved a unique niche by offering a theoretically derived and empirically rich foreign policy analysis framework. Over the years, it has branched out as a theory of mistakes (Type I), a theory of foreign policy (Type II), and a theory of international politics (Type III). This article proposes another challenge to consolidate its offer of a progressive research agenda to position
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The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Larry M Bartels, Ursula E Daxecker, Susan D Hyde, Staffan I Lindberg, Irfan Nooruddin
There is a widespread perception that we are witnessing a period of democratic decline, manifesting itself in varieties of democratic backsliding such as the manipulation of elections, marginalization and repression of regime opponents and minorities, or more incremental executive aggrandizement. Yet others are more optimistic and have argued that democracy is in fact resilient, or that we are observing
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Religion and (Global) Politics: The State of the Art and Beyond International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Petr Kratochvíl
The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three “concentric” sources—the dependence
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International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Tarek Abou Chadi, Kanisha D Bond, Cassy Dorff, Jamie Hagen, Cullen S Hendrix, Cameron Thies
In the 3 years between the 2019 and 2022 International Studies Association (ISA) meetings, the profound state of global economic, social, and political upheaval around the world has become unavoidably evident for much, if not most, of the world. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, movements for inclusion and resulting backlashes sprang up across the globe. As scholars of international affairs
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A Typology of Ontological Insecurity Mechanisms: Russia's Military Engagement in Syria International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Hugo von Essen, August Danielson
Because of the novel explanations it generates for states’ security- and identity-related behavior, the concept of ontological security has been used increasingly in the International Relations (IR) literature in recent years. However, the abundance of interpretations of the concept means that it is often used in conflicting ways. To counter the risk of conceptual stretching and provide the foundation
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Knowledge Production beyond West-Centrism in IR: Toward Global IR 2.0 International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Yong-Soo Eun
The primary purpose of this article is to advance the ongoing global international relations (Global IR) debate and to offer some possible paths toward Global IR 2.0. To this end, this article first analyzes how Global IR has emerged, what contributions it makes to giving new impetus to IR knowledge (production), and, more importantly, what charges are leveled against Global IR. Although Global IR
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Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Anselm Vogler
Defense ministries regularly frame climate security in their national security strategies. Recently, “civil” ministries also begun mentioning climate security. However, they do not mean the same thing. This article develops four indicators to assess the commitment of climate security framings to an understanding of climate security as either human/environmental or national security issue. It applies
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Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Sercan Canbolat, Sarah Gansen, Patrick James
This article brings a broad array of works, which pertain to different research areas of international relations (IR), into contact with each other via a graphic method, systemism, to obtain insights that otherwise might prove elusive. Completion of these tasks is anticipated to exemplify how the systemist approach can enhance communication throughout IR. Systemism is introduced as a graphic technique
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Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Christoph March, Ina Schieferdecker
Aspirations toward technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfil them unclear. This opens the door for vested interests who benefit from misinterpreting the goal, e.g., as a strive for autarky, nationalism, and the rollback of globalization. To close this gap, we show how certain
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Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jakub Eberle
This essay reviews four recent books on Germany's foreign policy with emphasis on the era of Angela Merkel. The evaluation is based on their (a) added value to scholarship on German foreign policy, (b) theoretical sophistication and contribution to IR, and (c) relevance also for the post-Merkel era. I argue that the books bring in valuable insights regarding the enduring, yet also changeable role of
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European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Kieran Andrieu, Rowan Lubbock
This paper seeks to contribute to the English School's (ES) understanding of the European Regional International Society (ERIS) through the work of Karl Polanyi. While ES theory has long been interested in regional international societies, its general approach remains limited to a methodologically internationalist frame that fails to capture the dynamism and historical change of regional formations
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Reducing and Managing Risk: The Dimensions of Strong Ceasefires in Intra-State Conflict International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Laurie Nathan, Ajay Sethi
This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the strength of ceasefires in intra-state conflict. The framework is based on the perspectives of ceasefire practitioners. The practitioners view the essence of ceasefire design as the reduction and management of risk, which ranges in severity from violations to complete breakdown of the ceasefire agreement. The framework identifies three determinants
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Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Şule Yaylacı, Christopher G Price
The study of intra-state violence has been a main focus of scholars since the end of the Cold War, and in recent years particular attention has been paid to the consequences of civil wars on future political, social, and economic development. Yet, understanding the consequences of political violence requires a clear working definition of what we mean when we say that someone was “exposed to” or was
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The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Jennifer Thomson, Toni Haastrup, Karoline Färber, Carol Cohn, Paul Kirby
Almost a decade after Sweden first declared that it would follow a feminist foreign policy (FFP), a further eleven countries from across Europe, North and South America, and North and West Africa have adopted, or have signaled an interest in potentially adopting, an FFP in the future. These developments have been accompanied by a growing body of feminist scholarship. Although still in its infancy,
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Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Luis Schenoni, Kelly Morrison
This paper integrates the scholarship on compliance with international human rights courts to reflect upon how the literature approaches delays and compliance cycles. Building on this review, we propose a new analytical approach that helps distinguish between reparations prone to immediate or protracted implementation. We introduce two metrics to facilitate the interpretation of delays: the yearly
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Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Leonie Holthaus, Jonas Wolff
In this article, we address the question of how policy orientation shapes academic research from a sociological perspective. Policy orientation involves the mobilization of scientific resources and the “mobilization of the world.” Our analysis is based on Bourdieusian field theory and focuses on democracy promotion research (DPR). It shows that DPR is a heterogeneous academic field characterized by
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The Evolution of Databases in the Age of Targeted Sanctions International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Clara Portela, Andrea Charron
Databases constitute key research tools in sanctions scholarship. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a proliferation of sanctions databases: while only a single dataset was available until 2009, this number had increased to five by 2020; thus, the choice has more than doubled in less than a decade. This essay assesses the evolution observed. It reviews the five major datasets, comparing some
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Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Gino Vlavonou
This article takes a reflexive look at the dilemmas and challenges of accessing a predominantly male circle of political and nongovernmental elites in the Central African Republic from the perspective of a young Black African male student researcher. It focuses on questions of positionality, arguing that certain African social norms regarding seniority and hierarchy can affect data generation, specifically
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Climate Change, Energy Transition, and Constitutional Identity International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 J S Maloy
Through its potential to contribute to mass suffering, economic disruption, and social unrest, climate change poses a security threat to the constitutional identities of states (as democratic, autocratic, or hybrid regimes). This paper proposes a conceptual framework of mediated causality for climatic impacts on constitutional identity and engages in novel theory-building for one mediating vector of
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What Are UN General Assembly Resolutions for? Four Views on Parliamentary Diplomacy International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Rafael Mesquita, Antonio Pires
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has passed over eighteen thousand resolutions since its foundation. It is a very heterogeneous collection, containing at once landmark documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and scores of less important and even controversial pieces. Hence, scholarship for the past 75 years has been divided on the actual relevance of UNGA resolutions
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Forum: The Why and How of Global Governors: Relational Agency in World Politics International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Matthias Hofferberth, Daniel Lambach, Martin Koch, Anna Holzscheiter, Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, Nina Reiners, Karsten Ronit
Scholars of world politics can readily list the global governors of our time, but why and how did these particular actors gain agency in the first place? While there is impressive scholarship on single global governors and their respective impact, there is little comparative work and systematic theorization on what agency in world politics is and how actors gain it. This forum brings together contributions
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Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Paul Beaumont, Cedric de Coning
Over the last two decades, climate security has become an increasingly salient policy agenda in international fora. Yet, despite a large body of research, the empirical links between climate-change and conflict remain highly uncertain. This paper contends that uncertainty around climate–conflict links should be understood as characteristic of complex social–ecological systems rather than a problem
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Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Meredith Loken, Jamie J Hagen
Research on armed conflict's gender dynamics has expanded significantly in the past decade. However, research in this field pays little attention to sexual orientation and gender identity. Moreover, where scholarship focused on violence against sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals during war exists, it is largely divorced from work on gender-based violence (GBV) in conflict-related environments
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Fallacies of Democratic State-Building International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Aris Trantidis
This paper criticizes the epistemic foundations of democratic state-building, which are derived from a model of political transitions according to which liberal democratic institutions will transform a hitherto authoritarian and troubled country into a more prosperous and stable society and, therefore, foreign interventions to establish these institutions are realistic and worthy investments, provided
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Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where” International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Dawn Walsh
Power-sharing provisions have been included in many peace agreements intended to end intra-state violent conflict, including, for example, in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Sudan, and Lebanon. Power-sharing has been subject to extensive scholarly examination. Many of these examinations focus on the impact of power-sharing on peace, often defined as the non-recurrence of violent conflict. However, the results
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Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Alejandro M Peña, Thomas Davies
Scholarship drawing from a wide array of perspectives including field theoretical and functional differentiation approaches has shed increasing light on the sectoral dimensions of world politics. In contrast to dominant approaches emphasizing hierarchy and power in relations between global fields, this article offers a novel interpretive framework for understanding how diverse fields, systems, or sectors
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What's in a Norm? Centering the Study of Moral Values in Scholarship on Norm Interactions International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Kathryn Quissell
Some norms go through long contested periods, resulting in norm change, rejection, or persisting conflict. Others are adopted quite quickly, with little resistance across diverse societies. An underlying and unanswered theoretical question is why? A foundational characteristic of a norm as a concept, and a key aspect of constructivist scholarship on norms, is the role of values and moral principles
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Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Cyanne E Loyle, Jessica Maves Braithwaite, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Reyko Huang, R Joseph Huddleston, Danielle F Jung, Michael A Rubin
Recent work in international relations has problematized state-centric assumptions of governance to explore variations in authority by a range of nonstate actors (e.g., nongovernmental organizations, criminal syndicates, gangs). This forum centers on the phenomenon of rebel group governance during civil wars and leverages the concept to advance our understanding of current theories and conceptualizations
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WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Jeremie Cornut, Ilan Manor, Corinne Blumenthal
Diplomats in embassies and permanent representations are increasingly using the messaging application WhatsApp to communicate with their peers. They use WhatsApp groups to coordinate initiatives at multilateral forums, communicate more rapidly with headquarters and stay in touch with organizational developments at home, as well as form more personal working relations among their peers. To make sense
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Troubled Comparative Trajectories and the Statistical Construction of Disempowered Arab and Muslim Women Subjects International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Manal A Jamal
Since 9/11, a number of scholars added gender as a new variable to explain how economic, political, and/or social developments in the Middle East have diverged from developments elsewhere. These studies relied almost exclusively on statistical analysis and frequently discounted much of the extant literature, especially the more feminist and historically sensitive and in-depth qualitative works on the
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Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Valerie Sticher
Almost all ceasefires experience violations, yet we know little about how such violations relate to the military and political aspirations of conflict parties. This article builds on ceasefire and bargaining literature to understand why ceasefire violations occur and how they relate to strategic decision-making processes. Building on these theoretical insights, it proposes a typology of four main types
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Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee” International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Jodok Troy
English School accounts of international relations always stressed some degree of interaction between political international society and ideational world society. Yet, English School research, relying on agential and structural premises, often misses how and where international society and world society interact. If intermediation between the two societies is identified, it often remains abstract
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Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Hans Peter Schmitz, George E Mitchell
A growing chorus of critics have called upon transnational nongovernmental organizations (TNGOs) from the Global North to “decolonize” their practices, to “shift the power” to the Global South, and to put an end to “white saviorism” by initiating a variety of significant organizational changes. Despite these repeated calls, the TNGO sector still struggles to reform. Explanations for TNGOs’ ongoing
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Rethinking Tests of the IO Effectiveness Hypothesis: Evidence from Counter-Piracy Efforts in the Global South International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Jonathan Ring, Gary Uzonyi
Scholars have long debated whether international organizations (IO) matter in international politics. Skeptics argue that power politics determine outcomes while champions see IOs as important, independently shaping outcomes and reshaping the structure of politics. Between these extremes, scholars have made numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding under what conditions IOs
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Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Tobias Berger, Anna Holzscheiter, Anja Jetschke, Hans Peter Schmitz, Alejandro Esguerra
This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, and the influence of domestic structures on international
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IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Thomas Risse, Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Frank Havemann
This article contributes to two debates about international relations (IR) as a discipline: first, how global is IR, and how is it structured? Second, what is the state of theory in IR? We conducted (co-) citation analyses of both Web of Science (WoS) and—for the first time— non-WoS publications from Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. With regard to the first question, we find
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Sexuality, Gender, and the Colonial Violence of Humanitarian Intervention International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Patrick Vernon
Recent discussions of humanitarian intervention in international relations (IR) have often focused on the evolution of norms, and the development and contestation of the responsibility to protect (R2P) framework. While beneficial in tracing this process, most of these studies tend not to incorporate an analysis of colonialism, race, sexuality, or gender. While postcolonial studies of humanitarian intervention
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Tipping Points: Challenges in Analyzing International Crisis Escalation International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Chong Chen, Jordan Roberts, Shikshya Adhikari, Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley, Edward Gonzalez, Nakissa Jahanbani, Patrick James, Steven E Lobell, Norrin M Ripsman, Scott Silverstone, Anne van Wijk
Why do some near crises tip over into full-blown crisis and others do not? This paper considers existing scholarship and identifies four key barriers to using quantitative analysis for tipping-point analyses: strategic indeterminacy; the incentives for conflict parties to avoid inefficiencies; the paucity of cases; and the availability of quality data. Due to these challenges, many do not perform well
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Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Changwook Ju
Why do commanders tolerate sexual violence by their subordinates? Commander tolerance allows military sexual violence (MSV) to persist in times of peace, war, and post-conflict peacekeeping. However, most of the previous studies on MSV have focused on perpetrators’ criminal motives while neglecting the role of commander tolerance. In this article, I offer a tripartite general theory of commander tolerance
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Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Sarah von Billerbeck
How do leaders create legitimacy in international organizations (IOs)? It is widely acknowledged that legitimacy matters to IOs, but little research examines internal self-legitimation—the creation of legitimacy for staff, rather than for external audiences—and who specifically undertakes these self-legitimation activities in IOs. This paper fills these gaps by examining the particular role of leaders
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Emergency: A Vernacular Contextual Approach International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Bohdana Kurylo
Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers a struggle for survival, justifying the breaking of rules and excesses of state power. While there have been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, emergency has remained an analytical blind spot in security studies. The dominance of an elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm in the study of
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The Middle East and North Africa in Political Science Scholarship: Analyzing Publication Patterns in Leading Journals, 1990–2019 International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Mark Stephen Berlin, Anum Pasha Syed
We examine publications on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in nine leading political science journals across three decades (1990–2019) to evaluate the scope of political science engagement with the region since the 1990s and analyze trends in research interests, developments in the use of empirical methods, and authorship patterns. Our data highlight significant gaps in the geographic and substantive
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A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Michelle Bentley
The conceptualization of taboo within international relations (IR)—that is, what we understand to be taboo—is inadequate. Specifically, current analysis fails to sufficiently distinguish between taboo and non-taboo forms of prohibitory norm, where this failure often facilitates a tendency (explicit or implicit) to comprehend the concept primarily in terms of actor compliance with a taboo in question
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Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Larissa Fast, Róisín Read
This article explores the non-straightforward role of data about attacks on health in creating policy and normative change to safeguard access to healthcare and protect healthcare providers in conflict. Acknowledging the importance of data as a key component in the quest to reduce instances of attacks, we take this one step further, asking: what is the relationship between data, action, and change
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Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Michael O Allen, Kenneth Scheve
Competition policy has been a central forum for contesting the uneasy relationship between capitalism and democracy since the late nineteenth century. From the earliest policy debates, concerns that robust competition policies aimed at limiting economic concentration would disadvantage domestic producers featured prominently. This dynamic creates an international cooperation problem over competition
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Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Adam Scharpf, Christian GlÄßel
Dictators, rebel commanders, and mafia bosses frequently delegate gruesome and immoral tasks to their subordinates. However, most individuals want to avoid such work. This analytical essay proposes an institutional logic to understand how dictatorships, insurgent organizations, and criminal gangs get their evil work done nonetheless. We argue that common features of organizations produce mundane career
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Selling the Responsibility to Protect: The False Novelty but Real Impact of a Norm International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Eglantine Staunton, Luke Glanville
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is often referred to as a new concept on the basis that it provides both states and the international community responsibilities, rather than merely rights, to protect populations from mass atrocities. As this article argues, this claim of novelty is overstated. And yet, R2P has comprised an important development in human protection over the past two decades: it
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The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Nina C Krickel-Choi
The growing literature on ontological security theory (OST) in international relations, ontological security studies (OSS), is characterized by great internal diversity. This internal pluralism is one of its greatest strengths, but it is also potentially confusing, for example, when different works using an ontological security lens arrive at contradictory conclusions without it being obvious why.
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How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Audrey Alejandro, Eleanor Knott
Despite the imperative to pay attention to the words we use as a routine dimension of research, the methodological and pedagogical tools illustrating how to work on our own use of language are largely missing within and beyond international relations (IR). To address this gap, we develop a method—the “Reflexive Review”—which adds a linguistic and reflexive dimension to the common practice of a literature
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Globalization and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Niccolò W Bonifai, Nita Rudra, Carew Boulding, Samantha L Moya
Globalization is facing widespread condemnation at a time when worldwide crises ranging from climate change to pandemic policy increasingly demand a coordinated response. Rising nationalist, populist, and anti-globalization movements in many of the world's richest nations are placing great pressure on the international system pioneered by Western democracies following World War II. This special issue
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The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Quynh Nguyen
Despite the steady increase in environmental provisions being included in trade agreements to address potential environmental risks associated with increased trade, growing public concern about environmental issues has given rise to major public protests against various trade agreements. However, facing the widespread backlash against the liberal international economic order, pro-trade leaders have
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Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization? International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Erik Voeten
Many of the most visible examples of the backlash against multilateralism, globalization, and democracy do not target free trade, investment, or elections directly, but the judicial institutions that were created to protect the rights of traders, investors, and citizens. Is the backlash against globalization and democracy really a backlash against the growing ideological convergence on rule of law