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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	187
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	98
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	44
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	44
Human Shields and the Gulf War	32
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	32
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	29
What Does It Mean to Be a Reliable Ally?	28
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	28
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	27
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	27
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Domestic Public Opinion? Presidential Travel Abroad and Approval at Home	25
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	25
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	23
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	21
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	19
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	19
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization	18
The Effect of Interpersonal Interaction on the Expression of Anti-Foreign Sentiment: Evidence from a Parallel Survey in the United States and China	17
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	17
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	17
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance	16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	16
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	15
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	14

Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	14
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	14
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	14
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	14
Win-Win Deescalation	14
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	14
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries	14
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	14
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	13
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	13
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies	13
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	12
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	12
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	11
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	10
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	10
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
Multinational Military Exercises, the US Combatant Command System, and the Assembling of the American Security Order	10
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	10
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	9
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	9
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	9
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	9
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	9
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	8
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	8
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements	8
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	8
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	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
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	8
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	8
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	8
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	8
The Gendered Peace Premium	8
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	8
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	8
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	8

Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	8
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?	8
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare	7
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	7
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	7
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	7
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	7
Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict	7
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?	7
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	7
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	7
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	7
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	6
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang	6
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	6
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	6
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community	6
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology	6
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics	6
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	6
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions	6
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	6
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media	6
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	6
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash	6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	6
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	6
Conserving What’s Left: The International Environmental Regime and Subnational Resistance to Cooperation	6
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	6
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding	6
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis	6
Revisiting Our Understanding of Major Power Diplomacy: The Causes and Consequences of High-Level Diplomatic Visits with China, 1960–2020	5
Telling Stories of International Relations	5
Mass Attitudes about International Trade Agreements: Positive Messages and the Trans-Pacific Partnership	5
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation	5
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time	5
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria	5
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis	5
The Embodiment of Hegemony: Diplomatic Practices in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry	5
Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups	5
Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories	5
Does Memory Make Safe in the Wake of Atrocity? Pacification of Violent Pasts, Memory Labor, and Everyday Security	5
The Election Effect: Democratic Leaders in Inter-Group Conflict	5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	5
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy	5
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries	5
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset	5
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo	5
Oiling the War Machine? The Fuel Dilemma and Warfighting Capability	5
Nonstate Actor Inclusion and the Social Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions	5
Chinese Foreign Real Estate Investment and Local Voting in US Presidential Elections	5
Arresting the Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries	5
Positioning among International Organizations: Shifting Centers of Gravity in Global Health Governance	5
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict	5
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War	5
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics	5
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0	5
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians	5
Correction to: A PROBLEM of RULES: Sexual Exploitation and UN Legitimacy	5