Can foreign donors use their leverage to reduce violence against civilians or displacement in civil wars? Jessica Sun finds when donors struggle to balance protecting civilians and avoiding large refugee flows, their goals may be undermined by strategic government violence.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 2w ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Protecting at Home or Providing Abroad: Refugee Policy in Civil Conflicts - https://cup.org/4pCjaMT - Jessica S. Sun (Emory University) #FirstView

My latest article on the Algerian War, insurgent normativity, and international norms for armed conflict

International Organization@iojournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Who gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Who gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New to #FirstView from @thescottwolford.bsky.social and @joshlandry.bsky.social International stability often resists on collective deterrence, which is beset by both free-riding and uncertainty over whether others will fight. [1/3] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now on #firstview: The electoral effects of the China shock depend on who gets hit. When white workers face greater import competition than Black workers in the same local labor market, anti-Black animus rises — and so does Republican presidential vote share. @ericaowen.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 4w ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Relative Exposure to Negative Economic Shocks, Racial Animus, and Voting - https://cup.org/4yqyIrd - Daniel B. Jones, @ericaowen.bsky.social & Rena Sung #FirstView

New research note: Santi Foncillas, Erasmus Kersting & Christopher Kilby, "Dirty Work and the Domestic Politics of Aid" When rewarding or punishing other countries, why does the U.S. sometimes use bilateral aid and other times work through the World Bank? [1/3] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now on #FirstView, from @mrwidmann.bsky.social: "Democracy, Debt and the Bench: Political Ideology in Sovereign Immunity Cases."

Where not #OpenAccess the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social is free to read until the end of July 2026 - https://cup.org/3PKmata International Organization - Volume 80 - Issue 2

NEW ISSUE from @iojournal.bsky.social - International Organization - Volume 80 - Issue 2 - Spring 2026 - https://cup.org/3PKmata

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @iojournal.bsky.social - Transnational Networks and Interstate Competition: How Support for Nonstate Actors Increases Conflict between States - https://cup.org/4faYjx3 - Brandon J Kinne, J.F. Tellez, A.Stewart, I.Iliev, B.Derr, S.Murthy & P.Bernhard

The @ipsa.org Companion to Political Science draws on the 20 most cited articles over the past decade to discuss conceptual evolution. I was asked to contribute a piece based on my 2020 @iojournal.bsky.social article, which apparently made the top 20 for IPE: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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NEW ISSUE from @iojournal.bsky.social - International Organization - Volume 80 - Issue 2 - Spring 2026 - https://cup.org/3PKmata

"How do social movements contribute to international order formation? New article in International Organization compares three pathways — Han China, the Abbasid Caliphate, and Reformation Europe — to show the European case is one variant, not the template. @daviesthomasr.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Social Movements and International Order Formation - https://cup.org/3PBokuV - Alejandro Milcíades Peña & @daviesthomasr.bsky.social #FirstView

New article with Alejandro Peña in @iojournal.bsky.social rethinking world order beyond the West from the bottom-up www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Global torture is down. Border official abuse is up. What explains the gap? New research by @ginopauselli.bsky.social & Beth Simmons shows that building a wall sends border guards a signal: secure this border at all costs. [1/2]

@cbrandt.bsky.social and Jenniina Kotajoki's study of naming and shaming non-state armed groups finds that nearly half of all condemnations at the UN Security Council target them (rather than other states)—and states shame them for very different strategic reasons. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This @iojournal.bsky.social article from @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social et al. is one of the most important recent pieces on corruption, American politics, and democratic backsliding. It is an empirical research note, but I think its theoretical implications are much bigger. 1/n🧵

Lorenzo Crippa@lorenzocrippa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Excited that "Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Suspending Accountability for Overseas Bribery" by Eddy Malesky, Lucio Picci, and me has been published in FirstView at @iojournal.bsky.social! Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S002... 1/n

Now on #FirstView, @washupolisci.bsky.social's Amy Pond revisits the relationship between asset mobility and property rights.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Asset Mobility and Property Rights - https://cup.org/4tr4Kjz - Amy Pond (Washington University in St Louis) #FirstView

LATEST from @iojournal.bsky.social - International Organization - Volume 80 - Issue 1 - https://cup.org/4lGKEPf Where not #OpenAccess the articles in this issue are free to read until the end of April 2026

Now on #FirstView, from @hannahjakobbarrett.bsky.social tt.bsky.social and @egen97.bsky.social What happens when the US threatens to withdraw from NATO commitments? This new paper shows that public support for defense spending spikes 🚀 [1/2] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Convergent Flexibility: How International Law Keeps Pace with Technological Change - https://cup.org/4bLca9S - @jcanfil.bsky.social #FirstView

(On the last day of winter) our winter 2026 issue is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"How does racism structure the patterns of cooperation and contestation in international relations?" #OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Institutional Racism in International Relations - https://cup.org/4cpj5Yh - @lipscy.bsky.social & @jiajia.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience - https://cup.org/4bjlp1U - @ccottiero.bsky.social & Christina J. Schneider #FirstView

In Feb 2025, the Trump administration temporarily suspended enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). In a recent @iojournal.bsky.social piece, we show markets reacted allocating ~39B to firms tied to past or ongoing bribery investigations. 📄 doi.org/10.1017/S002... 2/

🎉I'm excited to share my new article with @cjschneider.bsky.social, now online at International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social: “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience.” Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002... ✨🧵thread🧵✨

Thread from @fgenovese.bsky.social on the tensions related to "climate realism." See her and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social's essay for more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Tony Blair Institute’s "Energy Strategy Reset" report released today is a perfect illustration of tensions and inconsistencies of the Climate Realism view that emerged in US and Europe since the return of Trump, as @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I have recently argued in @iojournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/

Now on #FirstView, Sung Eun Kim and Krzysztof Pelc on how the geographic concentration of industries alters the politicdal response to layoffs.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 6mo ago

#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Geography of Grievance: Industrial Hubs Magnify Political Discontent - https://cup.org/4rHZIxY - Sung Eun Kim & Krzysztof Pelc #FirstView

From @bloomberg.com, discussing Stacie Goddard & @abenewman.bsky.social's recent work on neoroyalism. (The IO essay: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

US Foreign Policy Is Now Medieval

The search continues for a framework to make sense of, or at least label, the baffling state of world affairs since Donald Trump took his second oath of office as president of the United States. And n...

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Can a fear of opening a "Pandora's Box" of widespread revisionism restrain leaders' territorial ambitions? Now on #FirstView @kschultz.bsky.social & @jamie_hintson argue yes, but only under restrictive conditions that have historically been difficult to meet. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...