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Telling Stories of International Relations 讲国际关系故事

IF 2.6 1区社会学

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf055

Laura J Shepherd

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Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts 移民、司法、汇款和美国法院

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf052

Leslie Johns, Máximo Langer, Margaret E Peters

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Good Enough? Public Perceptions of Success in Military Interventions 足够好?公众对军事干预成功的看法

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf051

Sarah Maxey

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Agricultural Geography and International Water Conflict: Evidence from Remotely Sensed Data 农业地理与国际水资源冲突：来自遥感数据的证据

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf048

Qingqian He, Xun Pang, Yaqian He, Yekai Xu, Matthew H Connolly

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Beyond Jobs: When Citizens Reject Socially Irresponsible Foreign Direct Investment 超越就业：当公民拒绝不负社会责任的外国直接投资

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf046

Carolina Moehlecke, Guilherme N Fasolin, Matias Spektor

{"title":"Beyond Jobs: When Citizens Reject Socially Irresponsible Foreign Direct Investment","authors":"Carolina Moehlecke, Guilherme N Fasolin, Matias Spektor","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf046","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship shows that public attitudes toward foreign direct investment (FDI) are shaped by non-economic factors such as ethnocentrism, nationalism, and foreign threat perceptions. However, the influence of socially irresponsible behavior by investing firms on such attitudes remains underexplored. In this research note, we investigate individuals’ preferences regarding socially irresponsible FDI through a conjoint experiment conducted in Brazil, a key destination for international capital inflows in the Global South. We find that investing firms’ corrupt and environmentally damaging behavior significantly reduces public support for FDI, even when respondents are prompted to consider substantial job creation by the firm under challenging economic conditions. This effect persists among high-skilled labor, a group that typically stands to benefit the most from FDI. These findings contribute to our understanding of the determinants of public attitudes toward FDI by highlighting the salience of negative externalities over economic benefits. Ultimately, the study offers a cautionary tale for firms, policymakers, and civil society, underscoring public sensitivity to the social costs of globalization and the potential reputational risks of prioritizing expected economic benefits over responsible conduct.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513315","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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Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War 冷战后的战略人道主义与美国难民接纳

IF 2.6 1区社会学

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf045

Idean Salehyan

{"title":"Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War","authors":"Idean Salehyan","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf045","url":null,"abstract":"The United States has historically been the world's leader in refugee resettlement. Yet, there has been little scholarship on the determinants of US refugee admissions policies. This paper asks, why does the United States resettle refugees from certain countries over others? How have these priorities changed over time? This paper argues that refugee admissions should be understood as more than a humanitarian initiative, but also reflects foreign policy priorities. This interplay between humanitarian factors and geopolitics is a key component of strategic humanitarianism. After the passage of the 1980 Refugee Act, the United States used refugee policy to resettle refugees from areas where it has been militarily involved and as a strategy to discredit foreign policy rivals. Yet, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks dramatically altered the foreign policy priorities of the United States. In the post-9/11 period, the United States is expected to have resettled far fewer refugees from military conflicts and Muslim-majority nations. A statistical analysis of refugee resettlement from 1990–2019 reveals that the United States prioritized refugees from its conflicts abroad in the 1990s, but that this preference declined considerably with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513316","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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Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe 公民支持欧洲防务联盟：欧洲安全合作的国际联合实验

IF 2.6 1区社会学

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf044

Francesco Nicoli, Brian Burgoon, David van der Duin

{"title":"Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe","authors":"Francesco Nicoli, Brian Burgoon, David van der Duin","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf044","url":null,"abstract":"Even in the face of rising security threats, European regional security cooperation is fraught. The issue strikes at the heart of national sovereignty that citizens and governments can be jealous to preserve. Political support for European security integration is arguably sensitive not only to financial and sovereignty costs, but also to specific design choices—its scope and level of military commitments, its governance and sources of financing. To explore these issues, we carried out a conjoint experiment in five Western European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain) in November 2022 focused on public support for alternative designs of European defense union. The results show that these Western European publics are most supportive of policy packages requiring EU-level governance, joint procurement of military equipment, and repurposing of existing national expenditure as the preferred form of financing. Citizens in different Western European countries have generally aligned preferences regarding such security cooperation. The results suggest that European citizens support creating joint institutions and policies that substantially pool sovereignty even in the security realm—provided such pooling stays within a range of particular policy designs.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513273","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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Firm Heterogeneity and Asymmetric Liberalization Drive Differential Utilization of FTAs among Firms in Production Networks 企业异质性和非对称自由化驱动生产网络中企业对自由贸易协定的差异利用

IF 2.6 1区社会学

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf038

Antonio Postigo

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Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse: Who Files Petitions in the United Nations? 侵犯人权受害者的个人动员：谁在联合国提出请愿？

IF 2.6 1区社会学

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf043

Rachel J Schoner

{"title":"Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse: Who Files Petitions in the United Nations?","authors":"Rachel J Schoner","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf043","url":null,"abstract":"Who files petitions against repressive regimes in the United Nations? Victims of human rights abuse face high personal costs of participation, including retaliation from the government against whom they are filing a complaint. There is also a significant information barrier. Despite these costs, several hundred petitions (or complaints) have been filed against repressive governments in just one United Nations treaty body. I frame filing international petitions as a form of antiregime mobilization; if mistreated, political individuals and organizations file petitions as a part of their broader mobilization efforts to improve human rights. This article introduces individual-level data of individuals who file complaints in the United Nations. I find there are two main categories of petitioners: (1) individuals with prior political involvement and (2) individuals represented by civil society organizations. This dataset includes identities of individuals, involvement of legal representation, specific rights under contestation, and other identifying individual characteristics. These data on individuals who overcome high costs help improve our understanding of broader processes of mobilization, both domestic and international.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144252407","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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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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