2026 Roland Bleiker: 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	33	893	809	36	34	211	7090

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Political Science

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Overview

Roland Bleiker is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and focuses their research within the broader domain of social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, cultural studies, as well as visual arts and performing arts. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in the range of topics they investigate.

The primary topics of their research include:

Peacebuilding and international security
Global security and public health
Gender, security, and conflict
International relations and foreign policy
Commonwealth, Australian politics, and federalism
Anthropological studies and insights
Media studies and communication

Recent publications by Bleiker demonstrate a focus on international relations and the role of visual and aesthetic elements in the field. Notable papers include:

"Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory" (2021) published in the Australian Journal Of International Affairs
"Visualizing international relations: Challenges and opportunities in an emerging research field" (2023) published in the Journal of Visual Political Communication
"Un-Disciplining the International" (2023) published in Alternatives Global Local Political
"Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics" (2021) published in Asian Studies Review

Alongside these, Bleiker has also co-authored work with other researchers, contributing to collaborative projects in their areas of interest.

Frequent co-authors include:

Emma Hutchison
Katie Barclay
Giovanni Tarantino
Angela Harris
Tiffany Hoffman

Bleiker's research has appeared in multiple publication venues, with more than one paper published in some journals. These journals include:

Cooperation and Conflict
Emotions History Culture Society
Australian Journal Of International Affairs
Alternatives Global Local Political
Journal of Visual Political Communication

Their interdisciplinary engagement spans areas that connect political and social contexts with visual and cultural analyses, contributing to ongoing debates in international relations and peacebuilding through both theoretical and empirical lenses.

Best Publications

Fear no more: emotions and world politics

Roland Bleiker;Emma Hutchison

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Citations
The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory

Roland Bleiker

655
Citations
Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics

Roland Bleiker

551
Citations
The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees

Roland Bleiker;David Campbell;Emma Hutchison;Xzarina Nicholson

492
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Theorizing emotions in world politics

Emma Hutchison;Roland Bleiker

476
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Visual Global Politics

Roland Bleiker

352
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Autoethnographic International Relations: exploring the self as a source of knowledge

Morgan Brigg;Roland Bleiker

259
Citations
Emotional Reconciliation Reconstituting Identity and Community after Trauma

Emma Hutchison;Roland Bleiker

254
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Pluralist methods for visual global politics

Roland Bleiker

194
Citations
Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation

R Bleiker;Y Hoang

179
Citations
Aesthetics and World Politics

Roland Bleiker

170
Citations
Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: pluralist photography and local empowerment

Roland Bleiker;Amy Kay

155
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Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation

Roland Bleiker

154
Citations
Discourse and Emotions in International Relations

Simon Koschut;Todd H. Hall;Reinhard Wolf;Ty Solomon

124
Citations
The Zen of international relations: IR theory from East to West

Stephen Chan;Peter G. Mandaville;Roland Bleiker

114
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A rogue is a rogue is a rogue: US foreign policy and the Korean nuclear crisis

Roland Bleiker

111
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Art After 9/11

Roland Bleiker

108
Citations
Discourse and Human Agency

Roland Bleiker

88
Citations
Mapping visual global politics

Roland Bleiker

84
Citations
In Search of Thinking Space: Reflections on the Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory:

Roland Bleiker

68
Citations
Review of America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire by Mark L. Gillem

Roland Bleiker

51
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Book Review: Roy Richard Grinker, Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, 320 pp., £40.00 hbk.): Leon V. Sigal, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998, 336 pp., £10.50 pbk.)

Roland Bleiker

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Frequent Co-Authors

Alex J. Bellamy University of Queensland

David Hyunchul Shim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

External Links

Personal website of Roland Bleiker

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