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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	35
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	21
The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations	17
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	14
Forum: Gender, race, colonialism, and international practice theory	14
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	14
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	14
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	13
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	13
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	13
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	13
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis	13
Historical IR and the promise of renewed dialogue between IR and history	12
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	12
Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times	12
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	12
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	12
Order and justice in ontological security studies	11
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	11
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	10
Moral guilt and small states’ status redemption: Thailand’s humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war during the Second World War	10
From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	10
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	9
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	8
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	7

Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	7
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	7
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	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
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	6
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	6
The gift as diplomatic theory	6
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	6
From rupture to meaning: Social trauma, state narratives, and everyday experiences of war in Ukraine	6
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	6
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
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	4
Navigating technological change: Future imaginaries and everyday practices in world politics	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	4
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	4
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	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
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	4
Annapolis and the Abbas-Olmert direct negotiations: A critical analysis	4
Recognizing reviewers, 2023–2024	4
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	4
International organizations as places of remembrance: Norm legitimization through memory discourses	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	3
Becoming NATO brothers: A feminist analysis of how government officials in Finland and Sweden reconciled national identity with NATO membership	3
Forum: Joking, laughter and play in International Relations: A forum of emerging research in humour and global politics	3
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	3
Trauma and foreign policy: Special Issue introduction	3
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	3
The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	3
Digging up crimes: Forensic perspectives on perpetrator-led exhumations	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	2
Permanent neutrality: A systems-theoretical interpretation	2
Still leaders but less exceptional: The Nordic states and development assistance	2
Constructing Europe as a rival: US foreign policy discourse in the Trump era	2
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	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

A parochial internationalization: Surveying the power and evolution of Nordic International Relations scholarship	2
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	2
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	2
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	2
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	2
Nuclear technology and (de)politicising memories of nuclear violence in postcolonial South Korea (1945–1975)	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
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar	2
Forum: Bridging divides—Georgia, the European Union, and the challenges of cooperation amid conflicts	2
What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden	2
The return of the Nordic voice at the United Nations	2
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
Analogies in revolt: How historical analogies shaped resistance in Iraq, 2003–2004	1
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School	1
Rethinking interdependencies: Ideal-typical worldviews on small and medium powers’ economic security	1
A superhero or an incompetent? Representations of international mediators in local cultural products	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
Ontological (in)security after truth: Disinformation as affective technology	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
Gendered icons and the war in Ukraine: The visual politics of Ukraine’s social media communication	1
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
Forum on Oliver Richmond’s The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture	1
Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace	1
Climate institutions matter: The challenges of making gender-sensitive and inclusive climate policies	1
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1
Informal organizations over time: Why do member states increase delegation?	1
Theorizing small states’ non-alignment strategies under great power rivalry: How Georgia navigates being caught between a rock and a hard place	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
Perceptions of Nordicness in Nordic International Relations: A review of 60 years of research in Cooperation and Conflict	1
The dynamics of Islamophobia and Islamism: A cross-national inquiry into four European societies	1
Bad versus good enough: Negativity bias and institutional choice	1
Resource mobilization in security partnerships: Explaining cooperation and coercion in the EU’s partnership with the African Union	1
Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy	1
Compounded historical trauma and cultural restitution in international relations	1
Conflictualization: Theorizing how relations, societies, and issues come to be formed by the logic of conflict	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
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1