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A Feminist Critique of International Practices International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Alice Chessé, Maïka Sondarjee
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies’ concepts from “international practice theories” (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners’
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The Rise and Fall of Technological Leadership: General-Purpose Technology Diffusion and Economic Power Transitions International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jeffrey Ding
How do technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers? Scholars have long observed that major technological breakthroughs disrupt economic power balances, yet they rarely investigate how this process occurs. Existing studies establish that a nation’s success in adapting to revolutionary technologies is determined by the fit between its institutions and the demands of these technologies
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How Expert Committees Become Group Agents: Self-Legitimation in the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Monika Heupel, Marlene Joger
The UN human rights treaty bodies—groups of experts tasked with monitoring how states implement international human rights conventions—are increasingly portrayed as powerful collective entities with agency. This article focuses on one mechanism that helps collectives of individuals become group agents, namely internal self-legitimation. By internal self-legitimation, we mean practices such as narratives
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From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Adam Chalmers, Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Onna Malou van den Broek
This paper argues that attributes of diffusion objects, in their own right, shape the form and extent of policy diffusion. To date, diffusion scholarship focuses on actor-level attributes (e.g., connections, culture, physical proximity, etc.) to explain what is diffused and how much. Extending existing theory on the impacts of policies’ textual properties on diffusion patterns, we argue that policies
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Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Linnea R Turco
Many theoretical conclusions core to the study of international politics rely on having access to, and understanding, the rhetoric of international actors. One important development in advancing the empirical study of international relations (IR) theory, therefore, is the availability of machine-analyzable speech data. A collection of fine-grained textual representations of states’ speeches in the
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The Punisher's Dilemma: Domestic Opposition and Foreign Policy Crises International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Fahd Humayun
Existing work on the democratic accountability of foreign policy suggests that when an incumbent incurs foreign policy losses, including but not limited to standing down in a crisis, making costly compromises, or accepting defeat abroad, opposition politicians at home weigh criticizing the government with the national interest. But this work has largely been developed with a view to explaining oppositional
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The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Stephen Chaudoin, Sarah Hummel, Yon Soo Park
How does the experience of being elected alter subsequent leader behavior at the international level? We argue for the existence of an election effect, through which a democratic election intensifies in-group identification and generates a sense of obligation to voters, while simultaneously increasing out-group hostility. These combined effects cause leaders to overexert costly efforts in competitive
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Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Guillaume Beaumier, Madison Cartwright
How do states’ positions across multiple and interconnected economic networks affect their power? The Weaponized Interdependence (WI) scholarship emphasizes that states centrally located in global economic networks have access to new sources of coercion. In this paper, we look at how their positions across multiple networks interact with each other to create new opportunities and vulnerabilities. We
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Military Exercises and Network Effects International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Kevin Galambos
Between 1980 and 2016, the percentage of states that partnered in a multinational military exercise (MME) increased twenty-fold. What explains this proliferation? Existing studies focus on the role of major powers and polarity but fail to explain exercises without great powers or the continuous growth of MME participation. I conceptualize patterns of exercises among all members of the international
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Super-Networks Shaping International Agreements: Comparing the Climate Change and Nuclear Weapons Arenas International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Andrea Schapper, Megan Dee
While research on transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is well established in international relations, knowledge gaps remain concerning TAN collaboration across policy fields. To address this gap, this article highlights how super-networks (networks above individual TANs) emerge across issue areas and explores the tactics utilized to achieve their objectives and shape international agreements. We
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Bureaucracy and Cyber Coercion International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Heidi Demarest, Tyler Jost, Robert Schub
States are increasingly incorporating militarized cyber technologies, or cyber weapons, into their defense arsenals, but there is vigorous debate about their coercive utility. Existing scholarship often adjudicates the debate by parsing technical differences between cyber and conventional weapons. This technical approach overlooks a critical consideration: bureaucrats who inform state assessments may
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Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kseniya Oksamytna, Oisín Tansey, Sarah von Billerbeck, Birte Julia Gippert
Many international organizations (IOs) provide assistance to governments through country offices or peacekeeping operations. Sometimes, government authorities in countries receiving IO services violate norms that underpin the IO’s engagement. IO officials must then choose between confrontational and conciliatory responses. These responses are located on a spectrum that ranges from a firm and public
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Theorizing Infrastructures in Global Politics International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Christian Bueger, Tobias Liebetrau, Jan Stockbruegger
A growing wave of studies in international relations is interested in “infrastructure.” Pipelines, ports, financial transaction arrangements, and other large technical systems increasingly occupy the minds of international theorists. This theory note provides direction to the debate by offering an important clarification of the concept of infrastructure and how it is theorized. Scholars have very different
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Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Alexander M Hynd, Daniel Connolly
Existing literature on international hierarchies has focused on great powers, hitherto overlooking those hierarchies led by secondary states. Secondary states lack the capabilities and geostrategic reach of their great power counterparts but nevertheless seek to create subordinate relationships in their immediate regions. We argue that in doing so secondary states draw on strategic toolkits that involve
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What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Maja Davidović, Catherine Turner
Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward mechanisms, institutions, and structures as a means of delivering justice has led to certain kinds of knowledge being recognized as “transitional justice research” in the mainstream. Drawing on the theory of epistemic positioning
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The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Tomer Schorr-Liebfeld, Avraham Sela
Resolving protracted, asymmetric, and ethno-national conflicts is a notoriously problematic process, and only a handful of such attempts have ended in success. This paper is the first comparative study examining the relevance of “politically motivated violent offenders” (PMVOs) in propelling the shift from a long and bloody armed struggle to a negotiated agreement; indeed, they play an indispensable
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Diplomatic Gender Patterns and Symbolic Status Signaling: Introducing the GenDip Dataset on Gender and Diplomatic Representation International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Birgitta Niklasson, Ann E Towns
This research note introduces a new dyadic dataset on gender and diplomatic representation and shows its potential to address questions about international status, gender patterns in international politics, and more. The GenDip dataset includes the names and gender classification of all bilateral ambassadors heading embassies 1968–2019 (74,549), structured as dyad/decade for 1968–1998 and dyad/lustrum
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The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Kamal Sadiq, Gerasimos Tsourapas
How does labor emigration affect state–society relations across postcolonial states? We argue that the opportunity to pursue employment abroad alters a fundamental component of postcolonial states—the post-independence social contract. Such states’ inability to sustain post-independence levels of welfare provision first leads to the development of “emigration management institutions,” which seek to
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New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Xinyuan Dai, Alexandros Tokhi
One of the most influential arguments suggests that new democracies are more inclined than others to commit to international human rights treaties. This paper examines whether new democracies are more likely to commit not only to the basic, but also to the more demanding and constraining treaties. We argue that despite the strategic utility of costly commitments, new democracies are often unwilling
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When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Kathleen E Powers, Brian C Rathbun
Globalization is frequently linked to populism in advanced industrial societies, yet scholars have found little evidence for a direct connection between citizens’ personal economic fortunes and populist beliefs. We draw on the sociotropic tradition to argue that beliefs about how the global economy differently affects groups in society link globalization to populism and its component elements—anti-elitism
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Protection for Hire: Cooperation through Regional Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Christina Cottiero
There is growing evidence that leaders cooperate through regional intergovernmental organizations (RIOs) to address domestic security challenges. What sustains this collaboration? I present a theory of regional cooperation driven by mutual interest in stability and protection for heads of state. RIOs support the development of rules and norms around contributing to regional security and can legitimize
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Sovereignty Intrusion: Populism and Attitudes toward the International Monetary Fund International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Sam Handlin, Ayse Kaya, Hakan Gunaydin
The global populist backlash is considered threatening to the multilateral order, but its impact on individual attitudes toward international organizations, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is understudied. We bridge insights from research on the IMF and populism to develop a theoretical framework centered on three propositions. We argue that populist individuals should be more prone to
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Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Lauren L Ferry
Negotiations to restructure sovereign debt are protracted affairs, and their outcomes, known as “haircuts,” range from 0 to 80 percent creditor losses. Haircuts impact states’ ability to borrow, cost of borrowing, and economic recovery; they also redistribute income—between states and creditors and between domestic interest groups. I conceptualize the interaction between governments and private creditors
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Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation? International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Lindsay Reid, Kelly M Kadera, Mark J C Crescenzi
Hostile regional environments can spur civil war at home. Do they also affect mediation in a state’s ongoing civil war? We hypothesize they do, but in ways that produce competing effects: Third parties hesitate to offer mediation in a conflictual environment, but hostile environments also make disputants more amenable to mediation. We test these diverging expectations using a measure of conflict environments
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Demand for Statehood: The Case of Native Military Recruitment in World War II International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Joowon Yi
This paper examines how the demand for independence appeared in the era of Decolonization. I argue that nationalist movements were more likely to emerge in places where the colonial authorities recruited the native population in World War II. The theory highlights the role of war veterans in creating the demand for independence and in facilitating it through organized collective action. Drawing on
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Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Eric Keels, J Michael Greig
Despite decades of rigorous research on the use of government-sponsored violence in armed conflicts, there remains significant uncertainty as to when and where leaders choose to target civilians in war. We argue that the variation in the use of state repression is explained in part by how soldiers perceive battlefield gains by rebel forces. Specifically, while strong opposition forces are often a necessary
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Interactive Leader Psychology and the Ebb and Flow of Interstate Rivalry International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Dennis M Foster, Jonathan W Keller
A great deal of scholarship links leaders’ psychological traits to their monadic tendency to use force abroad, but virtually no work considers how the interaction of leadership psychology influences the systematic likelihood of dyadic interstate conflict. We develop and test several competing explanations of how the interactive conceptual complexity of leaders—a psychological trait that consistently
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Human Shields and the Gulf War International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Alexander de la Paz
From late August to early December 1990, Iraq held hundreds of Western and Japanese civilians at strategic sites as “human shields” against the Gulf War coalition. While there is a consensus that these foreign nationals would have influenced the coalition’s offensive had they not been released before the onset of hostilities, their impact remains poorly understood. This note draws on newly available
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Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ida Rudolfsen
This study assesses the claim that food insecurity leads to participation in unrest. I argue that insecure access to food can provide a motivational force to engage in urban unrest. But individuals must also have the capacity to partake in collective action, and acute food insecurity may undermine mobilization potential. Further, food insecurity is a mundane and widespread grievance often seen as an
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Contesting State Monologues: Indigenous Grassroots’ Struggles with Prior Consultation Norms in the Peruvian Amazon International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Riccarda Flemmer
Prior consultation (PC) has been an internationally enshrined norm for indigenous peoples’ rights since the 1980s. Indigenous peoples have called for PC for decades, but when governments finally begin implementation, a paradox results: previous advocates increasingly turn away from consultation processes. I argue that only with the perspective that norms are and should be contested “on the ground,”
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“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Valerie de Koeijer, Sarah E Parkinson, Sofia J Smith
Increasing research on the humanitarian sector examines how its organizational cultures affect both aid outcomes and humanitarian workers’ private lives. The #MeToo movement and several public scandals have brought to light patterns of sexual violence in crisis zones perpetrated by humanitarian aid workers; surveys suggest rates of sexual assault within the humanitarian community comparable to, if
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Threat Conceptions in Global Security Discourse: Analyzing the Speech Records of the United Nations Security Council, 1990–2019 International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Takuto Sakamoto
Since the end of the Cold War, the notion of global security, and presumed threats to it, has undergone considerable expansion and diversification. This process has been led by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), where active deliberations concerning “threat(s) to the peace” have taken place among major international actors. Despite a sizable accumulation of scholarly arguments, however, the
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Natural Resource Exploitation and Military Spending International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Justin Conrad
Why do some states allocate more resources to their military than others? Governments are likely to perceive acute threats to their authority and legitimacy when they face insurgencies in which rebel groups earn significant revenues from the exploitation of natural resources. In response, governments allocate greater amounts to their military budgets. Using data on the exploitation of natural resources
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A Method for Change. Lacanian Discourse Analysis: A Glimpse into Climate Policy International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Valeria Tolis
In this article, I propose a return to Jacques Lacan, I develop a Lacanian discourse analysis (LDA) as one possible method in international relations and demonstrate its potential by sketching out the case of climate change policy within the European Union. Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as conceptual “mind maps” informs a method of discourse analysis enabling researchers to empirically investigate
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International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Carla Winston
This theory note argues that international norms, as currently understood by scholars of international relations, can be seen as emergent properties of a complex adaptive system (the international political system). Arising from the microlevel interactions of agents within and across various levels of analysis, they have the potential to become system properties that (a) influence the constitution
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What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Luiz Valle
This article presents a sympathetic critique of the concept of “queer” operative in the subfield of Queer International Relations from a psychoanalytic perspective. I first reconstruct queer International Relations (IR) in relation to disciplinary IR and queer theory, and offer an appraisal of the current state of the field's division between LGBT+ theorists and queer theorists. I then consider Cynthia
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Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Moran M Mandelbaum
Interpellation, the production and hailing of subjectivities, is key to poststructuralist international relations (IR) theory and yet with some notable exceptions interpellation/hailing as an analytical concept remains somewhat undertheorized. This paper presents a Lacanian–Žižekian psychoanalytical theorization of interpellation in IR, while engaging with the ontology and epistemology of belonging
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How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Tamirace Fakhoury, Allison McCulloch
How do consociations craft their asylum policy, and how do they deal with the rights of “others”? Research has started to explore the relationship between consociational governance and non-ethnic or non-sectarian social groups. Yet, we still know little about how consociations interact with refugee flight on the one hand, and with the ethics of refugee protection on the other. As a form of thick institutional
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Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Catarina Kinnvall, Ted Svensson
In this article, we read the COVID-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective, in which trauma and ontological insecurity are at the heart of the analysis. Using a psychoanalytical approach allows us to grasp why the most common response to the pandemic consisted of intensified commitments to home, nationalism, and exclusionary bordering practices and, in effect, a return to geopolitical notions of “sovereignty
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The Free Market as Fantasy: A Lacanian Approach to the Problem of Neoliberal Resilience International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Henry Maher
The resilience of neoliberal ideology despite its repeated failings is a problem that continues to generate significant scholarly controversy. To theorize the enduring appeal of neoliberalism, this article uses Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic concept of fantasy. For Lacan, a fantasy is a narrative that structures our experience of reality, organizing our pursuit of desire. I argue historical neoliberal
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Anxious Politics: Contesting Fantasies Surrounding the Removal of Statues of Slavery and the Confederacy International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Andreja Zevnik
The summer of 2020 saw a global mobilization protesting the murder of George Floyd, during which statues glorifying white supremacy were toppled. Drawing on the narratives surrounding the removal of the Colston statue in Bristol and the Confederacy statues in New Orleans and Charlottesville, the paper examines the role of statues in the construction of political identities and social fantasies through
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Microsoft's Challenge to US Militarization of Cyberspace: A Lacanian Study of Norm Entrepreneurship International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Jeppe T Jacobsen
Microsoft is making strategic attempts to change the US government's practices of exploiting technical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software for military and intelligence purposes. So far, these efforts have not borne fruit. Microsoft's strategy has much in common with one of the most common strategies proposed by the International Relations literature on norm entrepreneurship in terms of exposing
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Aiding War: Foreign Aid and the Intensity of Violent Armed Conflict International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Michael Findley, Joseph K Young, Daniel Strandow, Olgahan Cat
Does foreign aid reduce violence during ongoing wars? In the policy community, there has been growing optimism about the prospect for aid to improve conflict-affected and fragile areas. We investigate whether foreign aid decreases, or even increases, violence during ongoing armed conflict. We advance a theoretical argument that concentrated foreign assistance allocated during ongoing armed conflicts
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Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Angel Saz-Carranza, Martino Maggetti, Kutsal Yesilkagit, David Coen
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international
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When are International Organizations Responsive to Policy Problems? International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Magnus Lundgren, Jonas Tallberg, Thomas Sommerer, Theresa Squatrito
When are international organizations (IOs) responsive to the policy problems that motivated their establishment? While it is a conventional assumption that IOs exist to address transnational challenges, the question of whether and when IO policy-making is responsive to shifts in underlying problems has not been systematically explored. This study investigates the responsiveness of IOs from a large-n
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Punching before the Bell Rings: United Nations Signaling and Pre-Deployment Violence in Civil Wars International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Jacob D Kathman, Michelle Benson, Paul F Diehl
In the post-Cold War era, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping has been an effective civil conflict mitigation tool. On the path to peacekeeping, the UN Security Council often signals its growing likelihood to deploy an operation by passing resolutions addressing the conflict. How do these signals affect violence levels in a pre-operation environment? We posit that conflict actors have incentives to improve
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Human Rights beyond the Liberal Script: A Morphological Approach International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Tobias Berger
While recent scholarship has turned to the increasing fragmentation of global human rights discourses, the often competing ideological projects in which different understandings of human rights are embedded have received comparatively scant attention. Instead, human rights are treated as isolated norms. Although treated as isolated, human rights norms are frequently simultaneously understood against
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Determinants of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Meta-Reanalysis Distinguishing Two Classes of Zero Observations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Changwook Ju
Existing databases on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) feature a disproportionate number of “zero” observations, which conflate a true absence of CRSV with an unknown presence of CRSV. Empirical studies model such zeros as solely indicating a lack of CRSV, thereby obscuring what needs to be known about its determinants and patterns. In this article, I present a comprehensive meta-reanalysis
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Crisis Bargaining in the Shadow of Third-Party Opportunism International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Ahmer Tarar
The prospect of a rival opportunistically pressing for gains while one is at war with another rival highly influenced Britain's “two-power standard” as well as the US's “two-war standard.” Conflict scholars have documented numerous instances of third-party opportunism. I analyze a game-theoretic model of crisis bargaining in the shadow of third-party opportunism. Under complete information, a country
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Making Gender Known: Assembling Gender Expertise in International Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 David Scott, Elisabeth Olivius
In recent decades, gender equality goals have been adopted widely in global policymaking, creating a demand for specialized knowledge and evidence to support the design and implementation of gender equality policies. Bridging feminist scholarship on gender expertise and practice–theoretical literature on knowledge production, this article examines a knowledge production initiative of the World Bank
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When to Go? A Conjoint Experiment on Social Networks, Violence, and Forced Migration Decisions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Oguzhan Turkoglu, Sigrid Weber
How do heterogeneous patterns of violence affect people's decision to flee? We provide individual-level evidence on flight decision-making in light of violence with a conjoint experiment in Turkey. The results suggest that intense indiscriminate violence nearby forces individuals into the decision to leave. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the fear of repeated violence plays a more important
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Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Christina Cottiero, Stephan Haggard
Research has demonstrated how membership in more democratic regional intergovernmental organizations (ROs) can strengthen the prospects for democracy. However, a significant number of ROs are dominated by autocratic members who have quite different preferences: to limit democratic contagion and consolidate authoritarian rule against democratic challengers. We outline a menu of mechanisms through which
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Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Andrew S Rosenberg
Does racial discrimination persist in global mobility rights? While many states explicitly discriminated based on race far into the twentieth century, contemporary migration policymaking is now putatively objective. The rise of white supremacist violence against all varieties of migrants, politician statements, and public support for restrictive policies calls this supposed color blindness into question
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Rebel Governance of Marriage and Sexuality: An Intersectional Approach International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Keshab Giri
Extant research links forced marriage and sexual violence in rebel groups with their respective political projects, social control, and group cohesion. However, forced marriage and sexual violence are rare in many rebel groups, including the Maoists in Nepal who claimed to have a “progressive,” “scientific,” and “modern” framework for governing marriage and sexuality. In the light of this puzzle, I
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Contested Strategic Cultures: Anglosphere Participation in the Coalition against ISIS International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Justin Massie, Jonathan Paquin, Kamille Leclair
The study of multinational military interventions highlights the importance of four major factors to account for combat participation in US-led coalitions: threat perceptions, alliance considerations, domestic politics, and strategic culture. The latter, however, has been overlooked or uncorroborated by major cross-national accounts of coalition warfare. Building on the fourth generation of scholars
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Political Institutions and Global Project Finance Loans International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Ji Yeon Hong, Ruilin Lai, Ilker Karaca
This paper explores the link between political institutions and the size of global bank loans received to fund project finance (PF) transactions, a commonly used funding method for domestic infrastructure construction. We theorize that lenders’ political risk assessments lead to a prioritization of political predictability over other institutional features of host countries. This indicates that, all
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Is the Bad News about Compliance Bad News about Human Rights? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Florencia Montal, Gino Pauselli
How do authoritative international bodies decide that states have complied with their orders? Compliance research has mostly focused on how states react to rulings and how interest groups mobilize for and against compliance. Less has been said about how international bodies certify compliance with their orders in contexts of conflicting interests and incomplete information. Because in theory the seal
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The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Dennis R Schmidt, John Williams
This article integrates normative theoretical analysis into accounts of international order by connecting the study of international practice to debates about the nature and moral purpose of states’ social association. Combining English School and social practice theory with insights from scholarship on colonialism, race, and empire, we conceptualize international order as a dynamic, contested, but
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The Power of Specialization: NGO Advocacy in Global Conservation Governance International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Takumi Shibaike
Organizational ecology has attracted growing interest in global governance research in recent years. As a structural theory, however, organizational ecology has overlooked how organizations may shape the organizational environment by their own choices. Bridging the insights of organizational ecology and the study of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), I argue that the organizational choice of specialism
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Thinking Outside of the Box: Transnational Terrorism in Civil Wars International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Michael J Soules
Scholars have written on the extensive risks that transnational terrorism entails for militant groups that perpetrate such attacks. However, despite these risks, transnational terrorism has become an increasingly common feature of civil wars. This raises the question: Why do rebel groups launch terrorist attacks outside of the countries they are fighting civil wars in? I argue that weaker rebel groups