OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations?	37
Military Alliances and Public Support for War	26
Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States	23
Emotional Labor and the Power of International Bureaucrats	23
Breaking the Myth of Cyber Doom: Securitization and Normalization of Novel Threats	21
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years: Political Nostalgia and China's Revival of the Silk Road	21
Demanding Truth: The Global Transitional Justice Network and the Creation of Truth Commissions	21
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?	20
Let's Justify! How Regime Complexes Enhance the Normative Legitimacy of Global Governance	20
Infrastructural Geopolitics	20
Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics	20
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia	20
Authoritarianism as an Institution? The Case of Central Asia	19
Why International Organizations Commit to Liberal Norms	18
Backlash and Judicial Restraint: Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights	18
Resisting Lockdown: The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions on Social Unrest	18
The Politics of Aspiration	18
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War	18
Angling for Influence: Institutional Proliferation in Development Banking	17
Bread Before Guns or Butter: Introducing Surplus Domestic Product (SDP)	17
Do Walls Work? The Effectiveness of Border Barriers in Containing the Cross-Border Spread of Violent Militancy	17
The Idea of Terror: Institutional Reproduction in Government Responses to Political Violence	17
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset	17
Promises under Pressure: Statements of Reassurance in US Alliances	17
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump	16

Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy	15
From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security	15
Leadership Selection in United Nations Peacekeeping	15
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries	15
The Struggle for Minds and Influence: The Chinese Communist Party's Global Outreach	14
Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South	14
Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa	14
Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict	13
Contestation before Compliance: History, Politics, and Power in International Humanitarian Law	12
The Geopolitical Threat Index: A Text-Based Computational Approach to Identifying Foreign Threats	12
Reserving Rights: Explaining Human Rights Treaty Reservations	12
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a “People-Centered” Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?	12
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations	12
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects	11
Excluded Ethnic Groups, Conflict Contagion, and the Onset of Genocide and Politicide during Civil War	11
Tangled up in Blue: The Effect of UN Peacekeeping on Nonviolent Protests in Post–Civil War Countries	11
Why Do Only Some Chairs Act as Successful Mediators? Trust in Chairs of Global Climate Negotiations	11
The Increasing Representativeness of International Organizations’ Secretariats: Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997–2015	11
Can We Predict Armed Conflict? How the First 9 Years of Published Forecasts Stand Up to Reality	11
Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change	10
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings	10
International Trade and Public Protest: Evidence from Russian Regions	10
Foreign Fighters and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	10
Do Donor Motives Matter? Investigating Perceptions of Foreign Aid in the Conflict in Donbas	10
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	10
Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace*	10
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse: Mineral Ownership and Local Economic Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance	9
From Text to Political Positions on Foreign Aid: Analysis of Aid Mentions in Party Manifestos from 1960 to 2015	9
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	9
Seeing Is Disbelieving: The Depths and Limits of Factual Misinformation in War	9
Productive Pacifists: The Rise of Production-Oriented States and Decline of Profit-Motivated Conquest	9
Technology and Territorial Change in Conflict Settings: Migration Control in the Aegean Sea	9
Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don't Influence Peacemaking	9
Remaining Seized of the Matter: UN Resolutions and Peace Implementation	8
Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East	8
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid	8
Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Counterterrorism Coalitions	8
Doubling Down: The Danger of Disclosing Secret Action	8
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries	8
Securing Reproductive Health: A Matter of International Peace and Security	8
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China	8
Dispute by Design? Legalization, Backlash, and the Drafting of Investment Agreements	7
One without the Other? Prediction and Policy in International Studies	7
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians	7
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence	7
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers	7
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War	7
Swinging Shale: Shale Oil, the Global Oil Market, and the Geopolitics of Oil	7
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery	7

From Shame to New Name: How Naming and Shaming Creates Pro-Government Militias	7
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	7
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory	7
Deterrence in the Cyber Realm: Public versus Private Cyber Capacity	7
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment	7
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances	7
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking	7
Sharing Saddles: Oligarchs and Officers on Horseback in Egypt and Tunisia	7
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer	7
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	6
Generals in the Cabinet: Military Participation in Government and International Conflict Initiation	6
From Litigation to Rights: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights	6
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	6
Subgroup Differences in Implicit Associations and Explicit Attitudes during Wartime	6
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 17? An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Aid Given to Boost Developing Countries’ Tax Revenue and Capacity	6
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	6
State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa	6
Monitoring via the Courts: Judicial Oversight and Police Violence in India	6
Life and Limb: New Estimates of Casualty Aversion in the United States	6
The Tyranny of Distance: Assessing and Explaining the Apparent Decline in U.S. Military Performance	6
To Blame or to Support? Large-scale Insurgent Attacks on Civilians and Public Trust in State Institutions	6
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation	5
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?	5
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes	5
Same as the Old Boss? Domestic Politics and the Turnover Trap	5
The Short and Long(er) of It: The Effect of Hard Times on Regional Institutionalization	5
Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset	5
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump	5
Trading Arguments: Opinion Updating in the Context of International Trade Agreements	5
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5