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International Human Rights Law and Women’s Access to Abortion

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

Amelia Gaudio, Ryan M Welch

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Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf024

Ana Carolina Garriga

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The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic 不可避免的时间政治：COVID-19 大流行期间的大规模死亡

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf023

Katharine M Millar, Yuna Han, Martin J Bayly

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Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf011

Andrea Purdeková

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Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf021

Jessica Di Salvatore, Kseniya Oksamytna, Katharina P Coleman

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Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf022

Stefanie Walter, Nicole Plotke-Scherly

{"title":"Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions","authors":"Stefanie Walter, Nicole Plotke-Scherly","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf022","url":null,"abstract":"s How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiation requests, or withdrawal? This paper argues that this response depends on a trade-off between the risks of not accommodating the challenge, which could disrupt cooperation gains, and the risks of accommodating, which may embolden future challengers. International institutions aim to minimize costs, accommodating challenges when cooperation losses are high, and resisting when the risk of contagion is significant. When both risks are large, they face an “accommodation dilemma” and politically charged negotiations with the challenging country. We evaluate this framework with a comparative case study of fourteen referendum-endorsed challenges to international institutions, analyzing cases that varied in cooperation gains at risk and contagion risks. The analysis shows that across a range of different issues and institutions, the framework helps us better understand why member states respond differently to such challenges and why some challenges are resolved easily whereas others become conflictual. By developing a widely applicable theoretical framework and a versatile coding scheme, the paper contributes to a better understanding of how international institutions respond to contestation and the populist and nationalist backlash against global governance.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744959","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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Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf018

Mirko Heinzel, Andreas Kern, Saliha Metinsoy, Bernhard Reinsberg

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Balancing International Commitments and Democratic Accountability: Exit Clauses in Investment Agreements

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf012

Tuuli-Anna Huikuri, Sujeong Shim

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When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf013

Jonathan D Moyer, Collin J Meisel, Adam Szymanski-Burgos, Andrew C Scott, Matteo C M Casiraghi, Alexandra Kurkul, Marianne Hughes, Whitney Kettlun, Kylie X McKee, Austin S Matthews

{"title":"When Heads of Government and State (HOGS) Fly: Introducing the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) Dataset Measuring Foreign Travel by HOGS","authors":"Jonathan D Moyer, Collin J Meisel, Adam Szymanski-Burgos, Andrew C Scott, Matteo C M Casiraghi, Alexandra Kurkul, Marianne Hughes, Whitney Kettlun, Kylie X McKee, Austin S Matthews","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf013","url":null,"abstract":"Despite representing a crucial day-to-day diplomatic tool, travel by heads of government and state (HOGS) has remained an under-investigated topic in international relations, inhibiting our ability to better understand how these visits change foreign aid, interstate conflict, diplomatic affinities, and more. Here, we fill that gap by introducing the first global dataset on the foreign visits of state leaders, the Country and Organizational Leader Travel (COLT) dataset, which allows us to present descriptive analysis and assess the monadic and dyadic drivers of foreign travel by HOGS. We find evidence consistent with previous literature explaining the motives of leader travel: development, trade, conflict, institutional co-membership, and regime type. In addition, we show a potential further application of the dataset, presenting original results on the relation between diplomatic visits and international trade. Overall, these data represent a unique indicator of international interaction that cuts across levels of analysis.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143635545","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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Military Gender Advisors, Organizational Change, and Transformational Opportunities: The Discrepancy between Policy and Practice

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf015

Eleanor Gordon, Katrina Lee-Koo

{"title":"Military Gender Advisors, Organizational Change, and Transformational Opportunities: The Discrepancy between Policy and Practice","authors":"Eleanor Gordon, Katrina Lee-Koo","doi":"10.1093/isq/sqaf015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf015","url":null,"abstract":"Military Gender Advisors (GENADs) are an increasingly common feature in global armed forces and military operations. Their role is designed to operate at the strategic level of military organizations to the facilitate implementation of the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Despite an overarching policy framework and official discourse that value and support their work, GENADs face significant challenges that undermine their ability to succeed in their roles. This article employs a feminist institutionalist lens to investigate the disconnect between policy and practice, and draws from empirical qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews with serving and former military GENADs and other stakeholders across twenty-one countries. The article argues that despite strong rhetorical support and a visible global policy framework underpinning the work of GENADs, institutional practices informed by normative assumptions about gender, women, and militaries undermine the effectiveness of the GENAD capability. Through this investigation, this article contributes to conceptual and theoretical understandings around gender-responsive transformation within the organizational and cultural practices of militaries.","PeriodicalId":48313,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Quarterly","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143576203","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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