2026 Daniel H. Nexon: 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	26	1503	1374	752	665	71	4942

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Current World Ranking

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Political Science

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Overview

Daniel H. Nexon is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research work primarily spans social sciences with a strong focus on political science and international relations.

The main fields of study for Daniel H. Nexon include:

Social Sciences

Within this broad field, they have contributed to several subfields, notably:

Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Development

Daniel H. Nexon's research topics cover various dimensions of international and political studies, including:

International Relations and Foreign Policy
Political Conflict and Governance
International Development and Aid
Political Philosophy and Ethics
Turkey's Politics and Society

Their recent publications include the following works:

(No) Exit from liberalism?, 2020, New Perspectives
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange, 2022, Security Studies
PPS volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front matter, 2021, Perspectives on Politics
Index, 2021, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Daniel H. Nexon frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

Alexander Cooley
Morten Skumsrud Andersen
Stacie E. Goddard
Joseph M. Parent
Paul Poast

They have published multiple articles in recognized academic venues such as:

New Perspectives
Security Studies
Perspectives on Politics
Cambridge University Press eBooks

Best Publications

Relations Before States: Substance, Process and the Study of World Politics

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

716
Citations
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe

Daniel H. Nexon

635
Citations
What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate

Daniel H. Nexon;Thomas Wright

452
Citations
The Balance of Power in the Balance

Daniel H. Nexon

192
Citations
Paradigm Lost? Reassessing Theory of International Politics

Stacie E. Goddard;Daniel H. Nexon

177
Citations
International theory in a post-paradigmatic era: From substantive wagers to scientific ontologies

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

173
Citations
Religion in an Expanding Europe

Timothy A. Byrnes;Peter J. Katzenstein

169
Citations
Paradigmatic Faults in International‐Relations Theory

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

157
Citations
The Dynamics of Global Power Politics: A Framework for Analysis

Stacie E Goddard;Daniel H. Nexon

137
Citations
Constructivist Realism or Realist‐Constructivism?

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

128
Citations
Hegemony Studies 3.0: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Orders

G. John Ikenberry;Daniel H. Nexon

125
Citations
Harry Potter and International Relations

Daniel H. Nexon;Iver B. Neumann

125
Citations
Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order

Alexander Cooley;Daniel Nexon

115
Citations
Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War

Paul Musgrave;Daniel H. Nexon

107
Citations
“Things of Networks”: Situating ANT in International Relations

Daniel H. Nexon;Vincent Pouliot

106
Citations
Beyond anarchy: logics of political organization, hierarchy, and international structure

Meghan Mcconaughey;Paul Musgrave;Daniel H. Nexon

105
Citations
Hegemonic-Order Theory: A Field-Theoretic Account

Iver Brynild Neumann;Daniel H. Nexon

91
Citations
“The Empire Will Compensate You”: The Structural Dynamics of the U.S. Overseas Basing Network

Alexander Cooley;Daniel H. Nexon

89
Citations
Whence Causal Mechanisms? A Comment on Legro

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

65
Citations
Repertoires of statecraft: instruments and logics of power politics:

Stacie E Goddard;Paul K MacDonald;Daniel H Nexon

45
Citations
Reclaiming the social: relationalism in anglophone international studies

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson;Daniel H. Nexon

43
Citations
Revising order or challenging the balance of military power? An alternative typology of revisionist and status-quo states

Alexander Cooley;Daniel Nexon;Steven Ward

42
Citations
Anarchy and Authority: International Structure, the Balance of Power, and Hierarchy

Dani K Nedal;Daniel H Nexon

22
Citations
What’s This, Then? “Romanes Eunt Domus”?1

Daniel H. Nexon

16
Citations
Gender in the International Studies Quarterly Review Process

Dani K. Nedal;Daniel H. Nexon

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Cooley Barnard College

Iver B. Neumann Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Vincent Pouliot University of Montreal

External Links

Personal website of Daniel H. Nexon

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