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International Relations and Foreign Policy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Tyler Jost
John Brown University
2
Pierre Haroche
Queen Mary University of London
3
Gita Gopinath
International Monetary Fund
4
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
University of Cambridge
5
Minseon Ku
DePaul University
6
Stacie E. Goddard
Wellesley College
7
Tereza Hendl
University of Augsburg
8
David Cadier
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
9
Thomas Sommerer
University of Potsdam
10
Alexander Brakel
Wesleyan University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Changing global linkages: A new Cold War?
Journal of International Economics|2024
100 cit.
2
Contestation in a World of Liberal Orders
Global Studies Quarterly|2024
88 cit.
3
Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making
International Organization|2024
59 cit.
4
Geoeconomic Power Europe: When Global Power Competition Drives EU Integration
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2024
42 cit.
5
Accountability in densely institutionalized governance spaces
Global Policy|2024
38 cit.
6
Changing Global Linkages: A New Cold War?
IMF Working Paper|2024
29 cit.
7
Can digital health democratize health care?
Bioethics|2024
24 cit.
8
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
International Organization|2025
11 cit.
9
Nuclear Shibboleths: The Logics and Future of Nuclear Nonuse
International Organization|2025
8 cit.
10
To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
The Review of International Organizations|2024
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jennifer Mitzen
The Ohio State University
2
Victor Ferguson
Australian National University
3
Sören Stapel
Freie Universität Berlin
4
Paul Hubbard
Australian National University
5
Aaron P. Shreve
Randolph College
6
Oliver Westerwinter
European University Institute
7
Holger Albrecht
University of Alabama
8
Nina C. Krickel-Choi
Danish Institute for International Studies
9
Alexander Schmotz
King's College London
10
Alexandra Stark
RAND Corporation

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies
International Studies Review|2022
77 cit.
2
State personhood and ontological security as a framework of existence: moving beyond identity, discovering sovereignty
Cambridge Review of International Affairs|2022
62 cit.
3
The Dark Matter of World Politics: System Trust, Summits, and State Personhood
International Organization|2022
55 cit.
4
Institutional Overlap in Global Governance and the Design of Intergovernmental Organizations
The Review of International Organizations|2023
47 cit.
5
Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint
The Review of International Organizations|2023
41 cit.
6
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?
Cooperation and Conflict|2023
36 cit.
7
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020–21
Review of International Political Economy|2022
33 cit.
8
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations|2022
30 cit.
9
Who commits to regional human rights treaties? Reputational benefits, sovereignty costs, and regional dynamics
Journal of Human Rights|2022
30 cit.
10
Overlapping regionalism around the world: Introducing the overlapping regionalism dataset
International Area Studies Review|2023
23 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Kathryn Sikkink
University of Minnesota System
2
Duncan Snidal
University of Chicago
3
Francisco O. Ramírez
Stanford University
4
Martha Finnemore
George Washington University
5
Paul F. Diehl
University of Illinois System
6
William C. Wohlforth
Walsh University
7
Beth A. Simmons
Harvard University Press
8
Jack Snyder
Columbia University
9
Abraham L. Newman
Walsh University
10
Barry Buzan
University of Warwick

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
International Organization|1998
8.1k cit.
2
World Society and the Nation‐State
American Journal of Sociology|1997
4.7k cit.
3
Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Foreign Affairs|1998
3.7k cit.
4
The Rational Design of International Institutions
International Organization|2001
2.3k cit.
5
The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations
International Organization|1999
2.1k cit.
6
After hegemony: cooperation and discord in the world political economy
International Affairs|1985
1.8k cit.
7
Why States Act through Formal International Organizations
Journal of Conflict Resolution|1998
1.7k cit.
8
The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy
American Political Science Review|2004
1.6k cit.
9
Neorealism and its critics
International Affairs|1986
1.5k cit.
10
Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion
International Security|2019
1.5k cit.

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