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Beyond "Middle Power": Postcolonial Liminality and the Social Construction of Indonesia's Foreign Policy. 超越“中等力量”：后殖民阈限与印尼外交政策的社会建构。

IF 2.8 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2026-09-11 eCollection Date: 2026-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/00207020261487407

Ahmad Rizky Mardhatillah Umar

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Between Borders and Bodies: Rethinking National and Human Security. 边界与身体之间：重新思考国家与人类安全。

IF 2.8 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2026-06-19 eCollection Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00207020261452704

Luana Figueiredo, Makeda Smith

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Divide and Conquer: Russia's Anti-west Campaign and Gender-based Disinformation. 分而治之：俄罗斯的反西方运动和基于性别的虚假信息。

IF 2.8 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2026-05-25 eCollection Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00207020261452284

Owen Wong, Claire Mountford, Stéfanie von Hlatky

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Still 'standing with' Israel?: Canadian foreign policy and the legacy of Stephen Harper. 仍然与以色列“站在一起”？：加拿大外交政策和斯蒂芬·哈珀的遗产。

IF 3.1 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/00207020251334988

Abigail B Bakan, Yasmeen Abu-Laban

{"title":"Still 'standing with' Israel?: Canadian foreign policy and the legacy of Stephen Harper.","authors":"Abigail B Bakan, Yasmeen Abu-Laban","doi":"10.1177/00207020251334988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00207020251334988","url":null,"abstract":"When Stephen Harper became the first Canadian prime minister to speak in the Knesset, he declared unwavering loyalty to Israel. Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau, Harper's successor, echoed this sentiment. Following the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023, Israel's responses in Gaza have been deemed by the International Court of Justice to be \"plausible genocide.\" How far does Canada's position of standing with Israel go, and does it include genocide? This article offers a close analysis of the Harper years (2006-2015) to demonstrate the significance of this period in cementing Canada's close relationship to Israel, and explores how the Trudeau Liberals sustained certain dimensions of that relationship. The article argues that during the Harper government, Canada's foreign policy towards Israel and Canada's domestic policy became increasingly intertwined. Based on analysis of policy, document, and media accounts, the article addresses: (i) the interface with Israel in foreign policy and in the United Nations; (ii) a pattern of what we term the \"Israelization\" of Canadian domestic politics; and (iii) the continuities since Justin Trudeau's election in 2015, which appeared in sharpened relief between 2023 and Trudeau's resignation in 2025.","PeriodicalId":46226,"journal":{"name":"International Journal","volume":"80 2","pages":"246-266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12126181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Applying AI to Canada's Financial Intelligence System: Promises and Perils in Combatting Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. 将人工智能应用于加拿大金融情报系统：打击洗钱和恐怖主义融资的承诺和风险。

IF 3.1 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1177/00207020251334973

Corinne Ibalanky, Alex Wilner

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National shipbuilding strategies in Australia, Britain, and Canada. 澳大利亚、英国和加拿大的国家造船战略。

IF 3.1 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-23 DOI: 10.1177/00207020251320417

Elinor C Sloan

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Foreign Policy in a Time of Turbulence 动荡时期的外交政策

IF 2.2 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1177/00207020241276107

Bob Rae

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US global leadership beyond 2024: A UK and European perspective 2024 年后美国的全球领导地位：英国和欧洲的视角

IF 2.2 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1177/00207020241276100

Patrick Holdich

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Securitization versus sovereignty? Multi-level governance, scientific objectivation, and the discourses of the Canadian and American heads of state during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. 安全与主权？多级治理、科学客观化以及 COVID-19 大流行第一波期间加拿大和美国国家元首的论述。

IF 3.1 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/00207020241275980

Marjolaine Lamontagne

{"title":"Securitization versus sovereignty? Multi-level governance, scientific objectivation, and the discourses of the Canadian and American heads of state during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Marjolaine Lamontagne","doi":"10.1177/00207020241275980","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00207020241275980","url":null,"abstract":"The global health regime is caught in a paradox, whereby connecting \"human\" to \"(inter)national\" security to prevent the spread of infectious diseases unwittingly introduces into this complex and expertise-reliant domain of \"low politics\" the notion of \"sovereign decisionism\"-states' prerogative to identify a threat and counter it with exceptional measures that may in turn constrain their ability to unilaterally securitize disease. This article introduces an analytical framework presenting three pathways through which state leaders with different conceptions of sovereignty and varying constraints on their legitimacy among their domestic audiences may nevertheless securitize policy domains traditionally considered as falling within the scope of sub-state \"low politics.\" Two of the pathways begin with scientific objectivation rather than politicization, and one trades power concentration for collaboration with sub-state and global authorities. I then compare the Canadian and American responses during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic to uncover how these contextual factors disposed Donald Trump to politicize COVID-19, while Justin Trudeau emulated the World Health Organization's securitization of the virus without centralizing state powers.","PeriodicalId":46226,"journal":{"name":"International Journal","volume":"79 3","pages":"369-396"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11452310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142381973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Editors' introduction 编辑导言

IF 2.2 4区社会学

International Journal Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00207020241276994

Asa McKercher, Leah Sarson

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