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The Argumentative Power of International Law: Legal Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Universal Periodic Review 国际法的辩论力：法律修辞、人权与普遍定期审议

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf042

Kyle Reed

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Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions 非国家行为体包容与全球治理机构的社会合法性

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf040

Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Soetkin Verhaegen, Sigrid Quack

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The Prodigal Child Returns? Attitudes towards Return Migration in a Developing Economy 浪子回头？发展中经济体对回迁的态度

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf041

Melle Scholten

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Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0 介绍政府不兼容数据项目（gdp） 2.0

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf037

Peter B White, David E Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

{"title":"Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0","authors":"Peter B White, David E Cunningham, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf037","url":null,"abstract":"s This research note introduces a new dataset—the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0—which identifies the presence of incompatibilities over governments for all countries in the world from 1960 to 2020. Incompatibilities over government involve organizations making maximalist claims related to the legitimacy of elections, the composition of the national government, or regime change. GIDP 2.0 includes information about which of these claims is present in each incompatibility year. These data can facilitate analyses of the onset, dynamics, and outcomes of both civil war and nonviolent campaigns, improve our ability to predict their occurrence, and allow for analysis of whether international efforts to prevent violent conflicts over government are effective. We present a series of descriptive analyses showing that governmental incompatibilities are common but not ubiquitous, and occur across time periods, and within and across regime types. These descriptive analyses further show interesting variation among the types of claims articulated in democracies, autocracies, and anocracies and across different types of autocratic institutions. A brief two-stage analysis shows that some factors commonly included in studies of armed conflict and nonviolent campaign onset have different effects on the emergence of governmental incompatibilities and on whether these incompatibilities escalate to mass mobilization.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143930926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Revisiting Embedded Liberalism: Does the Theoretical Possibility Meet Empirical Validity? Analyzing Labor Laws and Preferential Trade Agreements 重新审视嵌入式自由主义：理论可能性是否符合经验有效性？分析劳动法和优惠贸易协定

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf036

Zhiyuan Wang

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Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill 专家都到哪里去了？国会山外交政策思想的变化市场

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf035

Daniel W Drezner, Linda L Fowler

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The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid 外援中的性别主流化政治

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf033

Simone Dietrich, Daniela Donno, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni

{"title":"The Politics of Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Aid","authors":"Simone Dietrich, Daniela Donno, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf033","url":null,"abstract":"Gender mainstreaming—the incorporation of a gender equality perspective into the design, implementation, and evaluation of all aid projects—has become a signature policy tool among Western donors. However, advancing gender equality can be politically contentious and lead to backlash, particularly in autocratic regimes where women’s socioeconomic status is low. We argue that donors’ desire for recipient government buy-in creates incentives for them to pay attention to domestic policy cues, whose salience varies across regime types. Employing detailed data from the OECD’s Gender Equality Policy Marker, we show that donors engage differently with democracies and autocracies. Among democratic recipients, those with higher legal status for women have less gender mainstreaming aid, suggesting a “needs-based” logic. Conversely, in autocracies, donors respond positively to policy cues indicating the (domestic) political acceptability of gender equality. Our findings underscore the importance of treating gender mainstreaming as a distinct category of assistance whose application is attuned to domestic implementation problems. Beyond the study of foreign aid, we offer insights into how international audiences may interpret policy cues differently depending on regime type.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Innovation and Interdependence: Evidence from Gene-Editing Technology 创新与相互依赖：来自基因编辑技术的证据

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf032

Cleo O’Brien-Udry, Tyler Pratt

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A Dyadic Method to Investigate Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union 研究欧盟理事会投票行为的二元方法

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf029

Arash Pourebrahimi, Madeleine O Hosli, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz

{"title":"A Dyadic Method to Investigate Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union","authors":"Arash Pourebrahimi, Madeleine O Hosli, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf029","url":null,"abstract":"s Using a dyadic approach to explore voting behavior of European Union (EU) member states in the Council of the EU, we investigate the similarity in voting behavior of governments on three policy dimensions: left-right, authoritarian-libertarian, and pro-/anti EU. These policy dimensions are of interest also in other contexts, such as decision-making in international or regional organizations other than the EU. Our dependent variable is based on a new data collection covering the time 2010–2021. Our analysis, employing random effects binary and ordinal logistic regression applied to relations between EU states, confirms that larger distances of governments represented in the Council on these policy dimensions combined are related to larger distances of their vote choices. Larger distances affecting different vote choices within dyads are also confirmed for the pro-/anti EU policy dimension. Moreover, we find that closeness of member states in terms of their budget positions and of domestic public opinion on the EU are related to voting similarities. Member state differences in terms of voting power, by comparison, lead to less divergence of vote choice, for decisions based on the qualified majority voting rule. The length of EU membership, however, does not affect vote choice similarities.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143872811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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International Human Rights Law and Women’s Access to Abortion 国际人权法与妇女获得堕胎的机会

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf028

Amelia Gaudio, Ryan M Welch

{"title":"International Human Rights Law and Women’s Access to Abortion","authors":"Amelia Gaudio, Ryan M Welch","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf028","url":null,"abstract":"Can international law protect abortion rights? Drawing from past work on domestic mechanisms that give international law teeth, we argue that a strong civil society composed of women's groups and groups concerned with women's rights leads the government to comply with its international human rights commitments to women, specifically their right to abortion. Unlike that past work, though, we draw attention to the ways in which civil society can leverage the depth of their government's international legal commitment. Highly legalized commitments—those characterized by higher obligation, precision, and delegation—should help groups mobilize and give them access to international legal forums that can credibly threaten the government. Based on this argument, we expect countries that have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's Optional Protocol, a highly legalized treaty, to protect women's rights to abortion when women's civil society participation is high. Estimating several statistical models to test our expectations, the results lend credence to the argument. Highly legalized commitments allow civil society actors to hold governments accountable to those commitments leading to more liberalized abortion rights protections.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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