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Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise 超越二元对立：评估战略意外事件中预警成败的新类型学

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viaf009

Nikki Ikani

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Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism: Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Women as “Agents of Change” 女权主义外交政策作为治理女性主义的案例：新自由主义、军国主义和妇女作为“变革的推动者”

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viaf007

Colleen Bell, Nicole Wegner

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Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making 介绍组织（不）纠葛：关于制度复杂性和权力动态的学术研究如何帮助理解国际秩序的建立

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viaf002

Stephanie C Hofmann, Yuqian Cai, Laura Gómez-Mera, Tamar Gutner, Matias Margulis, Diana Panke, Berthold Rittberger, Sören Stapel, Matthew Stephen, Moritz Weiss

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Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda 解开核武器与气候变化的关系——一个研究议程

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viaf003

Kjølv Egeland

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Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae042

Nora Stappert, Frank Gadinger, Stanislav Budnitsky, Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Anna Geis, David Shim, Laurenz Krumbacher, Siddharth Tripathi

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Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias 国际建设和平中的地方知识：获取、过滤和系统性偏见

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae047

Sarah von Billerbeck, Katharina P Coleman, Steffen Eckhard, Benjamin Zyla

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Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism 贫困的五十道阴影：恐怖主义研究中的经济劣势类型分类

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae045

Steffen Hertog, Adrian Arellano, Thomas Hegghammer, Gudrun Østby

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Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic 来自大流行的明信片：全球 COVID-19 大流行中的妇女、交叉性和性别风险

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae041.1

Luna K C, Megan MacKenzie

{"title":"Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Luna K C, Megan MacKenzie","doi":"10.1093/isr/viae041.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae041.1","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 crisis created, and continues to produce, unprecedented challenges globally. Marginalized and racialized families, communities, and nations are experiencing their worst impacts, and in particular, women and girls are the hardest hit. The most pressing concerns raised by COVID-19 include a surge in gender-based violence, a rise in care burden, the feminization of poverty, and growing unemployment, largely in the Global South and conflict-affected regions. Drawing on feminist security studies and intersectionality literature, this forum explores gendered risks in the COVID-19 era, focusing on the security of women and girls from racialized and marginalized backgrounds in both the Global North and South. This forum presents seven short papers providing rich data on a range of case studies that include Yemen, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Canada, India, and Burundi. The contributions draw attention to the multilayered, diverse, intersectional, complex, and contextual gendered risks associated with the pandemic. The through line themes of intersectional identities, patriarchy, conflict, post-conflict, militarization, and marginalization are used to illustrate how gendered risks are (re)constructed during and after the COVID-19 crisis. This forum launched what we hope will offer a new research agenda and support to provide scholarly terrain for future research. This forum section not only provides insights into the vast and complex gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic but also sparks broader thinking about everyday forms of insecurity that women and girls face in global crises.","PeriodicalId":54206,"journal":{"name":"International Studies Review","volume":"237 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490932","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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Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity 通过反身性重新认识国际关系中的比较

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae043

Daniela Lai

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Status Orders: Toward a Local Understanding of Status Dynamics in World Politics 地位秩序：对世界政治中地位动态的局部理解

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International Studies Review Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1093/isr/viae044

Pål Røren

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