🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Drożdż (2026) examines Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) Three Seas Initiative (TSI) to show how populist governments institutionalise their agendas by establishing a counter-elite, finding PiS ultimately failed to do so with the TSI. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Altiparmak and Thies (2026) examine interrole conflicts that emerge when rival great powers pressure states into buffer state roles. Using Turkish FP during and after WWII, they show how states navigate demands in the international system. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Cao and Hsuan-Yu Lin (2026) explore how domestic power grabs shape diplomacy with great powers. They find that countries that undergo leader power concentration are more likely to receive high-level diplomatic visits from China. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Onea and AltıntaŞ (2026) explore ally-scaping. Using Turkey's 1964 non-intervention in Cyprus, attributed to US opposition, they show how leaders blame allies for failing to support the state as they try to avoid domestic audience costs. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

Following #ISA2026, our editorial team are on the road and in the air✈️. We are catching up with submissions and would love for anyone who presented a Foreign Policy Analysis paper at the conference to consider submitting it to FPA!

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 DiLorenzo (2026) tackles the issue of whether increased polarization weakens democratic institutions' stabilising effects on foreign policy, testing this assumption on UNGA voting consistency and alliance abbrogation. Does change occur? doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Using a survey experiment, Reinsberg, Abouharb and Seiferling (2026) examine public support in Pakistan for IMF reform programs and show how government communications influence public opinion about international organizations doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Zhang and Xiong (2026) explore discursive securitization in Japanese foreign policy through semantic network analysis and topic modelling, showing how securitization can unfold within institutional and normative constraints. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Peterson and Ai (2026) use commodity trade data, and an opportunity and willingness framework, to unpack ideological and economic factors affecting state condemnation and sanctions policies following 🇷🇺 full-scale invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Getmansky, Matakos and Sinmazdemir (2026) show how humanitarian concerns of host societies towards refugees persist in contexts of mass displacement and economic strain, based on an original conjoint experiment of Turkish residents. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨New Article!🚨 Mehrabi (2026) theorises how leadership survival determines coalition reliability by observing how potential coups and civil conflicts lead states to prematurely withdraw from multinational military operations. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Nguyen (2026) explains how, despite a contentious history and context, Vietnam attaches importance to its bilateral relationship with China, using a relational power framework, providing three propositions to explain these interactions. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

Traditional Values in the International Realm: Why We Need More Dialogue between Anti-Gender Research and Foreign Policy Analysis @fpajrnl.bsky.social @openlybiased.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Ha and Park (2026) develop theoretical explanations for how financial sanctions alter banking markets, showing they can induce greater market concentration in target economies. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Fujita, Atarashi and Yukawa (2026) explain variation in disaster relief aid, arguing that states provide more aid to those crucial to corporate supply chain interests, drawing on emergency events and response datasets, and cases from East Asia. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Valockova (2026) uses prospect theory to show how and when business elite perceptions influence state foreign economic hedging, drawing on Germany's economic policies towards China between 2014 and 2021. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Wu (2025) shows that European populist radical right governments diverge in their China policies due to differences in transnational business ties and executive centralization, despite sharing similar ideological foundations. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

The FPA Editorial Team will take a break from December 22 to January 5 to recharge. Please allow for extended response times for our communications during this period.

1/3: Starting January 1, 2026, the new FPA editorial team will start its 5-year term. Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Leslie Wehner, Sibel Oktay, Baris Kesgin

Urtuzuastigui, Bsisu, and Vernallis show that military sanctions tend to reduce refugee flows by constraining violence against civilians, while economic sanctions increase displacement by intensifying civilian exploitation. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Lee (2025) shows that leadership approval in Japan rises when leaders take tougher stances toward more salient and threatening rivals, while policies toward lesser rivals have limited domestic political effects. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Bias (2026) shows how states deploy “traditional values” as an anti-feminist foreign policy tool, urging closer dialogue between anti-gender research and foreign policy analysis. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Risse (2025) shows that democracies consistently back conventional arms control but support nuclear arms control only when the initiatives are led by fellow democracies. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Yang (2025) argues that U.S. political and military influence has a Janus-faced effect on protégés’ latent nuclear capabilities—first bolstering them for deterrence, then constraining further development as their programs advance. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Girard and Wilhelm (2025) show that Americans turn against data localization policies when economic costs are emphasized, while sovereignty-based frames have little effect and ethnocentrism—not geopolitics—drives evaluations of related trade agreements. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

The Conversation features a new piece by an FPA Editorial team member @ahmed-b.bsky.social on how the UN is reinventing peacekeeping, with Haiti as the testing ground. Please read it here: theconversation.com/the-un-is-re...

Asadzade (2025) shows that the April 2024 Iran–Israel confrontation heightened Iranians’ support for nuclear weapons, chiefly through intensified security and deterrence concerns rather than status-related motives. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Lee (2025) shows that IO membership strengthens leader survival, with summit-holding IOs offering the greatest political protection. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Pipoyan and Meibauer (2025) show that Armenia’s limited hedging toward Russia stemmed from systemic constraints and pragmatic elite ideas, producing selective bandwagoning and partial balancing. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Imanishi (2025) shows that both the volume and diversity of media coverage shape U.S. bureaucratic responsiveness in complex emergency aid between 2000 and 2019. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Visoka and Brajshori (2025) show that aspirant states like Kosovo use protean power—adaptability, innovation, and improvisation—to navigate barriers to recognition and gain partial legitimacy in international organizations. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Wang and Xiang (2025) find that bilateral investment treaties boost foreign aid flows by compensating or enforcing compliance, with democracies favoring compensation and autocracies enforcement. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Abu-Haltam (2025) shows that Jordan practices “indirect bandwagoning,” subtly aligning with U.S. interests by limiting China’s influence without open confrontation, illustrating how aid-dependent states navigate great power rivalry. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Dörfler (2025) explains Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by showing how groupthink amplified loss-framed risk perceptions among Putin’s inner circle, making high-risk behavior more likely and frame reversal improbable. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Choi (2025) finds that security alliances significantly reduce the likelihood of war, providing strong support for deterrence theory over the Steps-to-War perspective. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Heimann and Kampf (2025) show that interpersonal diplomatic offenses such as degradation, unfriendliness, and marginalization disrupt relations between state representatives and call for their systematic study in IR. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Girard and Wilhelm (2025) find Americans oppose data localization when framed as costly, with attitudes shaped more by ethnocentrism than geopolitics. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/... @alex-wilhelm.bsky.social @tylergirard.bsky.social

Asadzade (2025) shows, survey data from Iran before and during the 2024 Iran–Israel confrontation reveal a sharp rise in support for nuclear weapons, driven mainly by security concerns and deterrence needs. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Do small states under hegemonic pressure always choose between balancing or bandwagoning? Pipoyan and Meibauer (2025) show that Armenia instead pursued a form of limited hedging shaped by Russian assertiveness and domestic ideas. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Does leadership turnover in recipient states reduce arms orders from previous suppliers? Mehrl (2025) finds no empirical evidence that it does. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Risse (2025) shows that democracies consistently support conventional arms control but back nuclear arms control only when resolutions are co-sponsored by other democracies. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Choi (2025) finds strong empirical support for deterrence theory over Steps-to-War theory by showing that alliances significantly reduce the likelihood of war, the most destructive form of conflict. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Heimann and Kampf (2025) examine how interpersonal diplomatic offenses, such as degradation and marginalization, disrupt state relations and call for integrating these micro-level interactions into International Relations theory. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Imanishi (2025) shows that U.S. emergency aid increases not just with media volume, but especially when coverage is diverse in framing—revealing that “attention diversity” significantly shapes bureaucratic responsiveness. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Jenichen and Deka (2025) show that focusing solely on religion—without accounting for class and gender—limits the effectiveness of FoRB advocacy, as illustrated by the Asia Bibi case in Pakistan. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

Flowers (2025) introduces the HEX dataset to analyze global espionage exposures, revealing that most accused spies were state personnel motivated by money across 483 cases from 1946 to 2010. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-...

Fracalossi de Moraes (2025) shows that perceived adjustment costs were key, APMs were seen as low-cost to abandon, while cluster munitions posed significant material burdens. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

LaSpisa and Mitchell (2025) find that democratic dyads are more prone to maritime conflict due to stronger domestic interests, executive constraints, and weaker territorial norms at sea. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...