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Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
John Chin
Carnegie Mellon University
2
Matthew Cebul
United States Institute of Peace
3
Nivi Manchanda
Queen Mary University of London
4
Shawn Davies
Uppsala University
5
Virpi Salojärvi
University of Helsinki
6
Jon Coburn
Northumbria University
7
Anja Durovic
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Anastasia Shesterinina
Harvard University Press
9
Zavier Nunn
Columbia University
10
Raja-Léon Hamann
Statistisches Bundesamt

Rising Stars Papers

1
Organized violence 1989–2023, and the prevalence of organized crime groups
Journal of Peace Research|2024
133 cit.
2
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims
Journal of Peace Research|2025
66 cit.
3
From frontier-making to world-making: The enduring power of frontiers in South Asia
Political Geography|2024
13 cit.
4
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins
Review of International Studies|2024
9 cit.
5
A cost-consequence analysis of the Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus test strategy for the diagnosis of influenza-like illnesses
Journal of Medical Economics|2024
8 cit.
6
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling
European Journal of Political Research|2024
6 cit.
7
The Moving Spirit of Settler Colonialism: Temsula Ao, Counter-Sovereignty, and the Politics of Intervention in the Borderlands of India
International Studies Quarterly|2024
5 cit.
8
Des avancées paradoxales
Revue française de science politique|2024
2 cit.
9
The micro-sociology of peace and conflict
International Affairs|2024
2 cit.
10
Forum: Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research
International Studies Perspectives|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas Siomos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2
Ahmed Kodouda
George Washington University
3
Sharan Grewal
American University
4
Xiaoqin Li
University of Macau
5
Marisa J. Fuentes
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Beatrice Jauregui
University of Toronto
7
Richard Saull
Queen Mary University of London
8
Tanja Eschenauer
Heidelberg University
9
Roosa-Maria Kylli
University of Helsinki
10
Jake Watts
University of Sussex

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance
Comparative Political Studies|2022
67 cit.
2
Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland
Visual Studies|2023
54 cit.
3
The far-right in world politics/world politics in the far-right
Globalizations|2022
38 cit.
4
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia
Security Studies|2022
34 cit.
5
Discrimination, Inclusion, and Anti‐System Attitudes among Muslims in Germany
American Journal of Political Science|2022
32 cit.
6
What’s in a name? Experimental evidence of the coup taboo
Democratization|2022
22 cit.
7
“Twice the Citizen”: How Military Attitudes of Superiority Undermine Civilian Control in the United States
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2022
17 cit.
8
Police worker politics in India, Brasil, and beyond
Policing & Society|2022
9 cit.
9
Military Repression and Restraint in Algeria
American Political Science Review|2023
9 cit.
10
Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan’s civil service reform after uprising
World Development|2023
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Herbert Kitschelt
Duke University
2
John Lewis Gaddis
The University of Texas at Austin
3
Herbert Reiter
Scuola Normale Superiore
4
Madina Tlostanova
Linköping University
5
Sidney Tarrow
Cornell University
6
Anna Grzymała-Busse
Stanford University
7
Andrea Ruggeri
University of Milan
8
Daniel C. Thomas
Leiden University
9
Stephen P. Jackson
University of Cambridge
10
Roger J.A. Grand
University of Birmingham

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1999
3.9k cit.
2
A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence
Nature|2003
2.8k cit.
3
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies
British Journal of Political Science|1986
2.5k cit.
4
Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities
Comparative Political Studies|2000
1.4k cit.
5
Human CtIP promotes DNA end resection
Nature|2007
1.3k cit.
6
The DNA-dependent protein kinase: Requirement for DNA ends and association with Ku antigen
Cell|1993
1.2k cit.
7
Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage
Nature|2005
1.2k cit.
8
MDC1 Directly Binds Phosphorylated Histone H2AX to Regulate Cellular Responses to DNA Double-Strand Breaks
Cell|2005
1.1k cit.
9
The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1999
1.1k cit.
10
ATM- and cell cycle-dependent regulation of ATR in response to DNA double-strand breaks
Nature Cell Biology|2005
1k cit.

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