Most cited papers in Global Peace and Security Dynamics
What are the most cited papers in Global Peace and Security Dynamics?
The most cited paper in Global Peace and Security Dynamics is "Theory of International Politics, by Kenneth N. Waltz" (Robert F. Randle, 1980), with 6,392 citations. Next come "Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables" (2,615) and "Power and Interdependence" (2,028).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 442 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theory of International Politics, by Kenneth N. Waltz Robert F. Randle · Political Science Quarterly | 1980 | 6,392 |
| 2 | Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables Stephen D. Krasner · International Organization | 1982 | 2,615 |
| 3 | Power and Interdependence Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye · International Organization | 16 Aug 2013 | 2,028 |
| 4 | Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Harry G. West · PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review | Nov 1998 | 1,807 |
| 5 | Power in International Politics Michael Barnett, Raymond D. Duvall · International Organization | 2005 | 1,791 |
| 6 | Seizing the Middle Ground: Emanuel Adler · European Journal of International Relations | Sep 1997 | 1,447 |
| 7 | Structural Realism after the Cold War Kenneth N. Waltz · International Security | Jul 2000 | 1,327 |
| 8 | Critique of the Power of Judgment Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 11 Sep 2000 | 1,261 |
| 9 | The Stability of a Unipolar World William C. Wohlforth · International Security | Jul 1999 | 1,238 |
| 10 | The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context Thierry Balzacq · European Journal of International Relations | Jun 2005 | 1,205 |
| 11 | The Emerging Structure of International Politics Kenneth N. Waltz · International Security | 1993 | 1,192 |
| 12 | Why Do Nations Obey International Law? Harold Hongju Koh, Abram J. Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes et al. · The Yale Law Journal | Jun 1997 | 1,186 |
| 13 | The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence Ervin Staub | 27 Oct 1989 | 1,170 |
| 14 | Security as Practice — Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War Rita Floyd · Journal of International Relations and Development | Jun 2007 | 1,148 |
| 15 | Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics Michael C. Williams · International Studies Quarterly | 7 Nov 2003 | 1,143 |
| 16 | The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic practices: introduction Thomas Risse, Kathryn Sikkink · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 Aug 1999 | 1,143 |
| 17 | RESPONSIBILITY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: A SOCIAL CONNECTION MODEL Iris Marion Young · Social Philosophy and Policy | 2006 | 1,139 |
| 18 | Liberalism and World Politics Michael William Doyle · American Political Science Review | Dec 1986 | 1,134 |
| 19 | Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? Roland Paris · International Security | Oct 2001 | 1,092 |
| 20 | From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument Vaughan Lowe, Martti Koskenniemi · Journal of Law and Society | 1990 | 1,076 |
| 21 | The Study of Discourse in International Relations: Jennifer Milliken · European Journal of International Relations | Jun 1999 | 1,020 |
| 22 | War as a Commitment Problem Robert Powell · International Organization | 2006 | 1,019 |
| 23 | Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816–1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns Daniel M. Jones, Stuart A. Bremer, J. David Singer · Conflict Management and Peace Science | Sep 1996 | 1,011 |
| 24 | On compliance Abram J. Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes · International Organization | 1993 | 1,000 |
| 25 | Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood Robert Howard Jackson, Carl G. Rosberg · World Politics | Oct 1982 | 996 |
| 26 | Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Human Rights Enforcement Problem Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton · International Organization | Oct 2008 | 929 |
| 27 | An Egalitarian Law of Peoples Thomas W Pogge · Philosophy & Public Affairs | Jul 1994 | 900 |
| 28 | Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics David Clinton · Political Science Quarterly | 2005 | 864 |
| 29 | No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust? Assessing Risks of Genocide and Political Mass Murder since 1955 Barbara Harff · American Political Science Review | Feb 2003 | 861 |
| 30 | Soft Balancing against the United States Robert A. Pape · International Security | Jul 2005 | 842 |
| 31 | Human rights, principled issue-networks, and sovereignty in Latin America Kathryn Sikkink · International Organization | 1993 | 840 |
| 32 | Power in global governance Michael Barnett, Raymond D. Duvall · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 23 Dec 2004 | 834 |
| 33 | Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds Amitav Acharya · International Studies Quarterly | Dec 2014 | 831 |
| 34 | Securitization and the Construction of Security Matt McDonald · European Journal of International Relations | 13 Nov 2008 | 804 |
| 35 | The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, by Robert Jay Lifton Leo Kuper · Political Science Quarterly | 1987 | 798 |
| 36 | Governance, order, and change in world politics James N. Rosenau · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Mar 1992 | 786 |
| 37 | The Third Debate: On the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era Yosef Lapid · International Studies Quarterly | Sep 1989 | 779 |
| 38 | Social forces, states, and world orders: beyond international relations theory (1981) Robert W. Cox, Timothy J. Sinclair · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 28 Mar 1996 | 769 |
| 39 | Towards Relative Normativity in International Law? Prosper Weil · American Journal of International Law | Jul 1983 | 755 |
| 40 | How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict Ivan Arreguín-Toft · International Security | Jul 2001 | 729 |
| 41 | Constructing the Self and Changing Others: Reconsidering `Normative Power Europe' Thomas Diez · Millennium Journal of International Studies | Jun 2005 | 700 |
| 42 | Towards a Theory of Securitization: Copenhagen and Beyond Holger Stritzel · European Journal of International Relations | 16 Aug 2007 | 685 |
| 43 | What's at stake in the agent-structure debate? David Dessler · International Organization | 1989 | 678 |
| 44 | The Humanization of Humanitarian Law Theodor Meron · American Journal of International Law | Apr 2000 | 674 |
| 45 | Democracy and the Peaceful Settlement of International Conflict William J. Dixon · American Political Science Review | Mar 1994 | 649 |
| 46 | Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics John A. Agnew · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Jun 2005 | 641 |
| 47 | Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice Jack Snyder, Leslie Vinjamuri · International Security | 2004 | 640 |
| 48 | International Theory: The Case for a Classical Approach Hedley Bull · World Politics | Apr 1966 | 633 |
| 49 | The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary Bruno Simma, Hermann Mosler, Andreas Paulus et al. | 22 Nov 2012 | 620 |
| 50 | International authority and its politicization Michael Zürn, Martin Binder, Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt · International Theory | 15 Mar 2012 | 611 |
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