States-in-Waiting
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
States-in-Waiting (2024), published by Cambridge University Press, has been cited 24 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 1% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 963 times and is used in teaching.
Full narrative
States-in-Waiting by Lydia Walker was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. It is part of the Global and International History series. Conceptually, the work connects to History and Geography. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — History.
OpenAlex records 24 citations. That places it in the top 1% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2025 with 15 citing works. Notable citing venues include University of California Press eBooks, Critical Military Studies and Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East. The citing works include 12 journal articles, 9 book chapters, 2 books and 1 preprint. They come from 8 countries, led by the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
In teaching, it is discussed in 3 recorded lectures. It is discussed on Wikipedia (6 mentions). It has been downloaded 963 times via Ubiquity Press. Open Library reports a combined count of 3 reading logs and catalog editions. A further 6 mentions appear in other attention signals. Its subject matter aligns with Reduced inequalities among the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Crossref Event Data: historical records unavailable locally—not zero events. The public API was retired on 23 April 2026. Other attention sources may still be shown.
Book Series Benchmarking Context Competitive Analytics
Contextualizing this volume's relative performance alongside peers published inside Global and International History.
| Publication Title | Year | Author / Editor | Citations | Downloads |
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| States-in-Waiting [This Volume] |
2024 | Lydia Walker | 24 | 963 |
| No sibling volumes detected on index registries. | ||||
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Inferred roles
Heuristic signals from citation composition, usage, and media activity. Learn about all roles ↗
Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305815
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: DOAB
- OA basis: DOAB record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: DOAB → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009305815
- DOAB: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143449
Full text beyond the publisher
1 distinct location with full-text evidence. Availability is reported by the index and may change.
- The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)
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Reader reception Books
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — History
- Commercial: Amazon · Goodreads
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 24 citing works. 83.3% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- University of Washington (10)
- Leiden University (2)
- Federal Foreign Office (1)
- University of Fribourg (1)
- King's College London (1)
- University of Basel (1)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (1)
- Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (1)
- Northumbria University (1)
- University of Oxford (1)
- Mahindra University (1)
- Dublin City University (1)
- Christ University (1)
- The Ohio State University (1)
- New York University (1)
- University of Otago (1)
- James Wuh Lin (4)
- James Cheng-Yi Lin (3)
- Elisabeth Leake (2)
- Aditya Kiran Kakati (2)
- Lydia Walker (2)
- James Lin (2)
- Severyan Dyakonov (1)
- Karan Singh Chouhan (1)
- Miranda Johnson (1)
- Andrew H. Bellisari (1)
- Henry Miller (1)
- Sonya Cotton (1)
- Claire Eldridge (1)
- Cemil Aydın (1)
- Emma Hunter (1)
- Erez Manela (1)
- Burak Sayım (1)
- Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino (1)
- J. Heise (1)
- Tenzin Desal (1)
- Su Lin Lewis (1)
- Alex Manby (1)
- Aditi Kavia (1)
- Frederick Cooper (1)
- Anon. (1)
Open Science Signals PRISM
Open peer review and repository accessibility signals for this work.
Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: Cambridge University Press
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
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Community engagement
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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Video Lectures & Presentations YouTube Transcripts
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Dr Lydia Walker: Beyond States-in-Waiting Royal Asiatic Society Of Great Britain and Ireland"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 90%
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Lydia Walker "States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization" | BYU Kennedy Center BYU Kennedy Center"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 90%
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States-in-Waiting: Professor Lydia Walker on Decolonization and Untold Histories The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences"...Discussed in video...."AI Academic Confidence: 100%
Library & Community Access Open Library
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Community Reach:
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Library Classification Subjects:
Political science
Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex
Authors
- Lydia Walker First Corresponding ORCID
Concepts & topics OpenAlex
UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex
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Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Racial landscaping and the legal (mis)recognition of communities: the case of Namibia’s Rehoboth Basters | Landscape Research | 10.1080/01426397.2026.2712902 |
| 2026 | Dying for whom? The politics of death commemoration and Vietnamese identity during the First Indochina War | Critical Military Studies | 10.1080/23337486.2026.2705121 |
| 2026 | Gangsters or guerrillas? Mobilizing Naga violence-workers after global war in the India–Myanmar borderlands, 1945–1975 | Critical Military Studies | 10.1080/23337486.2026.2692733 |
| 2026 | Zeme Olympics and the historical pathways of Naga sovereignty in checkered borderlands | Territory Politics Governance | 10.1080/21622671.2026.2642940 |
| 2026 | Geographies of Naga (Inter)Nationalism: The Subaltern Geopolitics of Angami Zapu Phizo | Global Studies Quarterly | 10.1093/isagsq/ksag029 |
| 2026 | Introduction: Cold War internationalisms of/in the decolonizing world | The Global Sixties | 10.1080/27708888.2026.2694274 |
| 2025 | Decolonization as Dissent, Dissent as Decolonization | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East | 10.1215/1089201x-12113364 |
| 2025 | The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East | 10.1215/1089201x-12113380 |
| 2025 | Temporalities of independence and closure: violence in the UN-trusteeships of Togoland and Cameroon | Cambridge Review of International Affairs | 10.1080/09557571.2025.2526212 |
| 2025 | Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | 10.1017/s0010417525100108 |
| 2025 | Introduction: Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History | 10.1080/03086534.2025.2523525 |
| 2025 | Green Devolution: Taiwanese Vegetable Science, Nutrition, and the Developing World, 1969–1989 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.h |
| 2025 | Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics: The Land Reform Training Institute, 1968–1979 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.g |
| 2025 | “Straw Hat Diplomats”: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and Africa, 1961–1971 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.f |
| 2025 | Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.e |
| 2025 | Introduction | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.a |
| 2025 | Executing Contracts, Not Landlords: Capitalism through Land Reform, 1949–1968 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.c |
| 2025 | The Taiwan Model: Agricultural Science, Farmers’ Associations, and Capitalism in Taiwan, 1949–1970 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.d |
| 2025 | Conclusion | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.i |
| 2025 | Famine Relief to Prevention: Science, Missionaries, and the Origins of Development, 1920–1948 | Unknown | 10.1525/luminos.225.b |
| 2025 | CRIME, MORALITY AND DECOLONIZATION: A CRITICAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL LAW REFORMS IN INDONESIA AND INDIA | SSRN Electronic Journal | 10.2139/ssrn.5210979 |
| 2024 | In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan | OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation) | 10.1525/luminos.225 |
| 2024 | States-in-Waiting | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781009305815 |
| 2024 | Dialogical decoloniality and Tibetan conceptions of indigeneity | European Bulletin of Himalayan Research | 10.4000/124ey |
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