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Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations 无政府状态是权力平衡的产物：国际关系中的两个核心概念与公/私区分

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf064

Morten Skumsrud Andersen

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Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries 对谁负责？受援国援助条件的公众舆论

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International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaf057

Richard Clark, Lindsay R Dolan, Alexandra O Zeitz

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Telling Stories of International Relations 讲国际关系故事

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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

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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

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

Idean Salehyan

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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

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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

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

Antonio Postigo

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