"Circular Migration and the Moderation of Social Attitudes" is now published at @isq-jrnl.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/isq/... 1/3

New research using African public opinion finds citizens support foreign aid conditions when they distrust their government & trust the donor. These findings reshape our understanding of accountability relations in global governance. @rickyclark.bsky.social sky.social; @lindsayrdolan.bsky.social

IR101 says anarchy leads to balance of power. What if it’s the other way around? My new ISQ article (OA!) rethinks two core IR concepts through conceptual history

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

Using an original coding of legal and nonlegal recommendations, @kylereed.bsky.social’s new article finds that human rights arguments framed with legal references are substantially more likely to succeed. tinyurl.com/sqaf042

@meckerehrhardt.bsky.social, Soetkin Verhaegen & Sigrid Quack’s new article shows that nonstate actors can boost the legitimacy of global governance by contributing expertise, representation, public interest orientation, transparency&operational capacity to governance processes. tinyurl.com/sqaf040

In this article, Melle Scholten argues that attitudes to return-migrants are a function of non-migrants' evaluation of their expected effect in both economic and political-normative dimensions. tinyurl.com/sqaf041

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

ISQ is taking a summer break. We will not process new submissions from July 1 to July 31. We will continue to process manuscripts that were invited for revision and resubmission during this period. We look forward to receiving new submissions once again on August 1!

Can international law protect abortion rights? Yes. When a country’s international commitments are highly legalized, and a strong civil society exists to hold it accountable to those promises, its domestic abortion laws are more permissive. tinyurl.com/sqaf028

Using original data&micro-level measures of individual hearings by the national security committees, @dandrezner.bsky.social & Linda Fowler demonstrate how time constraints and routine responsibilities limit the number of opportunities for expert witnesses 1995-2020. tinyurl.com/sqaf035

@brianblankenship.bsky.social tests whether U.S. signals of abandonment and efforts to encourage allied burden-sharing using threats of abandonment increase support for nuclear weapons acquisition, using a survey of foreign policy elites from 16 European NATO members. tinyurl.com/sqaf039

Zhiyuan Wang argues that institutionalized social consensus mitigates the time-inconsistency problem & encourages trade liberalization. The study shows that strong labor laws are positively associated with the growth of PTAs. tinyurl.com/sqaf036

Contrary to much research, @jonastallberg.bsky.social & Carl Vikberg show that regime type affects how states design international organizations, but only under conditions of general-purpose cooperation. tinyurl.com/692sqaf034

In this article, Bilal Salaymeh, @sarahellmuller.bsky.social & @fannybadache.bsky.social show that rising powers embrace a view that prioritizes national ownership & occupy a middle ground in the spectrum of sovereignty conceptualizations at the UNSC. tinyurl.com/sqaf031

In this article, Simone Dietrich, @danieladonno.bsky.social, @katefleiner.bsky.social sky.social & Alice Iannantuoni underscore the importance of treating gender mainstreaming as a distinct category of assistance whose application is attuned to domestic implementation problems. tinyurl.com/sqaf033

@cobrienudry.bsky.social &Tyler Pratt argue that tech breakthroughs lead to accelerated incentives for regulatory arbitrage & potential for controversies to spark public backlash which link the regulatory fate of states, undermining their ability to regulate in isolation. tinyurl.com/sqaf032

Using a dyadic approach, @arash-p.bsky.social, Madeleine O Hosli & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social investigate EU member states’ voting behavior in the Council of the EU along 3 policy dimensions: left-right, authoritarian-libertarian, and pro-/anti EU. tinyurl.com/sqaf029

Does FDI induce concentrated benefits on the local level? Leveraging geo-located data on FDI projects 2003-2018 and nightlights, @tobirommel.bsky.social, Tabea Palmtag, and Luca Messerschmidt find evidence for FDI-induced local growth and regional inequality. tinyurl.com/sqaf025

Using original survey data and event dataset from AMISOM in Somalia, Prabin Khadka finds that IED attacks—especially those causing peacekeeper deaths—trigger retaliatory violence, supporting a revenge rather than a show-of-force explanation. tinyurl.com/sqaf026

New dataset alert! Cameron Mailhot introduces the Mandates of Int'l Orgs’ Missions (MIOM) dataset, which identifies up to 68 peacebuilding & statebuilding activities in the mandates of all UN & regional orgs’ missions deployed to conflict-affected countries (1989-2020) tinyurl.com/sqaf027

Analyzing close to 0.5mil Chinese news articles&an original corpus of policy docs, @yelingtan.bsky.social, Mark Dallas, @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social find that US shocks produce a shift away from technological interdependence, toward security-focused self-reliance tinyurl.com/sqaf017

How has central bank independence (CBI) evolved? @carogarriga.bsky.social presents the most comprehensive dataset on CBI, its main dimensions (personnel independence, objectives, policy formulation and limits on lending), and additional variables for 192 countries (1970-2023). tinyurl.com/sqaf024

New article! "Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic" with @drkmillar.bsky.social @mjbayly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

📢 New dataset alert: “Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset” is out in ISQ! With Jessica Di Salvatore and Katharina P. Coleman, we’ve mapped budgeted civilian personnel posts in UN peacekeeping operations by mission, unit, rank, and staff category, 1991-2020.

Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about. This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ: