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Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Filip Strandberg Hassellind
University of Gothenburg
2
Valentine Berthet
University of Helsinki
3
Stacie E. Goddard
Wellesley College
4
Marta Cabezas Fernández
Instituto Químico Biológico
5
Caitlin Biddolph
The University of Sydney
6
Shawn Davies
Uppsala University
7
Jake Davies
The University of Sydney
8
Beate Jahn
University of Sussex
9
Sambhavi Ganesh
University of Edinburgh
10
Chenchen Zhang
Université Libre de Bruxelles

Rising Stars Papers

1
Organized violence 1989–2023, and the prevalence of organized crime groups
Journal of Peace Research|2024
133 cit.
2
Contestation in a World of Liberal Orders
Global Studies Quarterly|2024
88 cit.
3
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims
Journal of Peace Research|2025
66 cit.
4
Haunting justice: queer bodies, ghosts, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
International Feminist Journal of Politics|2024
30 cit.
5
Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses
Review of International Studies|2024
17 cit.
6
Queering the Global Governance of Transitional Justice: Tensions and (Im)Possibilities
International Journal of Transitional Justice|2024
14 cit.
7
Death, Grief, and Mourning in an ICTY Film: Exploring Relational and Non/Living Worlds
International Studies Quarterly|2024
13 cit.
8
The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric
Made in China Journal|2024
11 cit.
9
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
International Organization|2025
11 cit.
10
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.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Anne‐Kathrin Kreft
Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony
2
Meressa Tsehaye Gebrewahd
Mekelle University
3
Lindsey A. O’Rourke
Boston College
4
Erin K. Little
University of Alabama
5
Ben Noble
National Research University Higher School of Economics
6
Bettina Bunk
Daimler Center for Automotive Information Technology Innovations
7
Chris Moores
University of Birmingham
8
Florence Sutcliffe‐Braithwaite
University College London
9
Anne E. Showalter
Supreme Court of the United States
10
Maria Josua
German Institute for Global and Area Studies

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies
International Studies Quarterly|2022
54 cit.
2
“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society|2022
36 cit.
3
Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences
American Political Science Review|2023
24 cit.
4
High-risk feminism in Colombia: women's mobilization in violent contexts
International Affairs|2022
23 cit.
5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention
Journal of Peace Research|2022
15 cit.
6
Do gender patterns in diplomacy disappear over time?
European Journal of Politics and Gender|2022
12 cit.
7
Justifications of repression in autocracies: an empirical analysis of Morocco and Tunisia, 2000–2010
Contemporary Politics|2023
11 cit.
8
Sexual Violence and Peacekeeping
Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations|2023
3 cit.
9
Labour provisions in trade agreements and women's rights in the global south
Global Policy|2023
2 cit.
10
Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
History Reviews of New Books|2025
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Lucan A. Way
University of Toronto
2
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Pennsylvania State University
3
Ellen Lust
Cornell University
4
Kathryn Sikkink
University of Minnesota System
5
Maria Stern
University of Gothenburg
6
Pekka Koskela
University of Jyväskylä
7
Simon P. Robins
University of York
8
Sally Engle Merry
University of Auckland
9
Jack Snyder
Columbia University
10
Ayşe Zarakol
University of Cambridge

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
International Organization|1998
8.1k cit.
2
Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Foreign Affairs|1998
3.7k cit.
3
Elections Without Democracy: The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism
Journal of democracy|2002
2.7k cit.
4
From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
Foreign Affairs|2000
1.5k cit.
5
Human Rights in a Globalizing World: The Paradox of Empty Promises
American Journal of Sociology|2005
1.4k cit.
6
Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle
American Anthropologist|2006
1.4k cit.
7
Legal Pluralism
Law & Society Review|1988
1.2k cit.
8
Elections Under Authoritarianism
Annual Review of Political Science|2009
1.1k cit.
9
Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics
International Social Science Journal|1999
1k cit.
10
Sobolev met Poincaré
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society|2000
951 cit.

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