OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	79
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	68
Human Shields and the Gulf War	36
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	35
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	31
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	30
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	26
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	21
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	21
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	21
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	20
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	19
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	18
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	18
Win-Win Deescalation	18
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	17
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	16
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	16
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	16
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	15
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	15
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	15
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	15
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	14

Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War	14
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	14
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	13
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion	13
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	13
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	12
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	12
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	11
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	11
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	11
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War	11
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	11
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	11
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	10
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery	9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance	9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	9
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	9
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	9
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	8
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	8
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	8
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	7
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	7
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	7
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	7
The Gendered Peace Premium	7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	7
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	7
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	7
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon	7
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	6

Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage	6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling	5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	5
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets	5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	5
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	5
Democracy and the Transnational Dimensions of Low-Level Conflict and State Repression	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	5
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	5
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media	5
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	5
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology	5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	5
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War	4
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization	4
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset	4
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	4
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics	4
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time	4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism	4
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset	4
Gender, Internal Armed Conflict, and High Court Decision-Making in Transitioning Societies	4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy	4
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries	4
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	4
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash	4
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry	4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo	4
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics	4
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation	4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria	4
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0	4
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding	4
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis	4
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments	4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict	4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis	4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians	4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances	4