OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 6. 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
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	218
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	59
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	49
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	38
Human Shields and the Gulf War	35
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	33
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	30
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	25
What Does It Mean to Be a Reliable Ally?	22
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	21
From Rights of Nations to the Right to Self-Determination	20
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Domestic Public Opinion? Presidential Travel Abroad and Approval at Home	19
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	18
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	18
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	18
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	17
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	17
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization	17
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	15
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China	15
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	15
The Slave Trade and Military Formation under Colonialism: The Case of French West Africa	14
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	14
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	14

Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance	14
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	14
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	14
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	13
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries	13
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	13
Win-Win Deescalation	13
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	12
Strategic Censorship? Public Opinion, Authoritarian Politics, and the International Trade Regime	12
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	12
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	12
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	12
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	12
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	12
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies	12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	12
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	12
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	10
Multinational Military Exercises, the US Combatant Command System, and the Assembling of the American Security Order	10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	10
Unraveling Americans’ Selective Sympathies Toward Israelis and Palestinians	10
Climate Shocks, Political Conflict, and the Resilience of Democracies	10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	10
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	10
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	9
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	9
Great Power Warfare and the Decline of War Question	9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	8
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	8
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	8
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	8
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	8
Divide and Conquer: Industry Market Structure, Inter-Firm Rivalry, and Bargaining over Technology	8
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	8
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	8
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	8
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	8
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	8

The Gendered Peace Premium	8
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare	8
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	8
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	7
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	7
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?	7
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	7
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	7
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang	7
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	7
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements	7
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	7
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict	7
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions	7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	7
Debating Global International Relations (IR): Philosophical and Meta-Theoretical Perspectives	7
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding	6
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries	6
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	6
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	6
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	6
Patterns of Indirect Violence in Conventional War: Territorial Contestation and Civilian Casualties during the War in Ukraine	6
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community	6
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0	6
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash	6
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset	6
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics	6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	6
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	6
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	6
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	6
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	6
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media	6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	6
Conserving What’s Left: The International Environmental Regime and Subnational Resistance to Cooperation	6
One Theme to Unite Them All? Rhetorical Signals and Unanimity in the UN Security Council	6