OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cooperation and Conflict is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	33
The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations	19
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	18
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	17
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	16
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	15
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	14
Forum: Gender, race, colonialism, and international practice theory	13
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	13
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	13
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	13
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	12
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis	12
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	12
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	11
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	11
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	11
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	11
Historical IR and the promise of renewed dialogue between IR and history	10
Order and justice in ontological security studies	10
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	10
Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times	9
From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	9
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	9

Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	8
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	8
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	8
Moral guilt and small states’ status redemption: Thailand’s humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war during the Second World War	8
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	8
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	7
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	7
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	7
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	7
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	7
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	6
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	6
From rupture to meaning: Social trauma, state narratives, and everyday experiences of war in Ukraine	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	6
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	5
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	5
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	5
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	5
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
Navigating technological change: Future imaginaries and everyday practices in world politics	4
Recognizing reviewers, 2023–2024	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	4
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Annapolis and the Abbas-Olmert direct negotiations: A critical analysis	4
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	4
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	4
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	4
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	4
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	4
Becoming NATO brothers: A feminist analysis of how government officials in Finland and Sweden reconciled national identity with NATO membership	3
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	3
Forum: Joking, laughter and play in International Relations: A forum of emerging research in humour and global politics	3
The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation	3
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	3
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	3
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	3
The return of the Nordic voice at the United Nations	3
Digging up crimes: Forensic perspectives on perpetrator-led exhumations	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	3
International organizations as places of remembrance: Norm legitimization through memory discourses	3
What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden	2
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	2

Aristotle’s jihad: Persuasion and rhetoric in Islamic insurgencies	2
Still leaders but less exceptional: The Nordic states and development assistance	2
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	2
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	2
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	2
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar	2
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies: Cooperation, male coalitions and the origins of multiplicity	2
Nuclear technology and (de)politicising memories of nuclear violence in postcolonial South Korea (1945–1975)	2
A parochial internationalization: Surveying the power and evolution of Nordic International Relations scholarship	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
Permanent neutrality: A systems-theoretical interpretation	2
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	2
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	2
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
Gendered icons and the war in Ukraine: The visual politics of Ukraine’s social media communication	1
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1
Informal organizations over time: Why do member states increase delegation?	1
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School	1
Conflictualization: Theorizing how relations, societies, and issues come to be formed by the logic of conflict	1
Theorizing small states’ non-alignment strategies under great power rivalry: How Georgia navigates being caught between a rock and a hard place	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	1
Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Compounded historical trauma and cultural restitution in international relations	1
The dynamics of Islamophobia and Islamism: A cross-national inquiry into four European societies	1
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1
Ontological (in)security after truth: Disinformation as affective technology	1
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	1
A superhero or an incompetent? Representations of international mediators in local cultural products	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
Perceptions of Nordicness in Nordic International Relations: A review of 60 years of research in Cooperation and Conflict	1