2026 Andrew F. Cooper: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	39	542	493	23	23	224	7042

Overview

Andrew F. Cooper is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio within the social sciences, particularly focusing on political science and international relations. Their work spans multiple dimensions of international development, global security, and political governance.

Cooper's research outputs cover a variety of topics including:

International Development and Aid
International Relations and Foreign Policy
Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Political Conflict and Governance
Peacebuilding and International Security
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
Canadian Identity and History

Their main fields of study include social sciences with specific emphasis on subfields such as:

Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Development
Strategy and Management
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Several frequent publication venues illustrate the domains and audiences targeted by Cooper's scholarship:

Third World Quarterly
International Politics
Global Policy
Globalizations
India Quarterly A Journal of International Affairs

Frequent coauthors contributing to collaborative works with Cooper include Brendon J. Cannon, Emel Parlar Dal, Hongying Wang, Carsten-Andreas Schulz, and Jeff Hai-Chi Loo.

Highlighted recent papers include:

"China, India and the pattern of G20/BRICS engagement: differentiated ambivalence between 'rising' power status and solidarity with the Global South", 2020, Third World Quarterly
"A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions", 2022, International Politics
"The cascading dynamics of informal institutions: organizational processes and governance implications", 2022, International Politics
"The United Arab Emirates and the New Development Bank: Mutual interests and first-mover advantages", 2023, Global Policy
"How secondary states can take advantage of networks in world politics: the case of bridges and hubs", 2023, Globalizations

Best Publications

Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

863
Citations
The Oxford handbook of modern diplomacy

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Jorge Heine;Ramesh Chandra Thakur

344
Citations
Middle power leadership and coalition building: Australia, the Cairns Group, and the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations

Richard A. Higgott;Andrew Fenton Cooper

276
Citations
The G20 as an improvised crisis committee and/or a contested ‘steering committee’ for the world

Andrew F. Cooper

271
Citations
The diplomacies of small states : between vulnerability and resilience

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Timothy M. Shaw

238
Citations
Foreign Policy Strategies of Emerging Powers in a Multipolar World: an introductory review

Andrew F Cooper;Daniel Flemes

211
Citations
Bound to Follow? Leadership and Followership in the Gulf Conflict

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Richard A. Higgot;Kim Richard Nossal

197
Citations
Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance

Alan S. Alexandroff;Andrew F. Cooper

192
Citations
The Group of Twenty (G20)

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Ramesh Chandra Thakur

188
Citations
The BRICS: A Very Short Introduction

Andrew Fenton Cooper

171
Citations
Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process

Andrew F. Cooper

161
Citations
Intervention Without Intervening?: The OAS Defense and Promotion of Democracy in the Americas

Andrew F. Cooper;Thomas Fridolin Legler

144
Citations
Global and/or regional development at the start of the 21st century? China, India and (South) Africa

Timothy M Shaw;Andrew F Cooper;Agata Antkiewicz

128
Citations
Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance?

Timothy M. Shaw;Andrew F. Cooper;Gregory T. Chin

127
Citations
Niche diplomacy : middle powers after the Cold War

Andrew Fenton Cooper

126
Citations
Qatar and Expanded Contours of Small State Diplomacy

Andrew F. Cooper;Bessma Momani

123
Citations
Governments, Non-governmental Organisations and the Re-calibration of Diplomacy

Andrew F. Cooper;Brian Hocking

120
Citations
Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview

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113
Citations
The OAS democratic solidarity paradigm: Questions of collective and national leadership

Andrew F. Cooper;Thomas Legler

110
Citations
Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart?

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Brian Hocking;William Maley

107
Citations
Regionalisation and Global Governance : The Taming of Globalisation?

Andrew Fenton Cooper;Christopher W. Hughes;Philippe de Lombaerde

107
Citations
The Diplomacies of Small States

Andrew F. Cooper;Timothy M. Shaw

107
Citations
Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order.

Frank Langdon;Andrew F. Cooper;Richard A. Higgot;Kim Richard Nossal

29
Citations
Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

Annette Baker Fox;Andrew F. Cooper;Richard A. Higgott;Kim Richard Nossal

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramesh Thakur Australian National University

Bessma Momani University of Waterloo

Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pierre L. Siklos Wilfrid Laurier University

John Whalley University of Western Ontario

Eric Helleiner University of Waterloo

Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo

External Links

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