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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	102
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	71
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	37
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	35
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	28
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	24
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	23
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	21
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	20
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	18
Human Shields and the Gulf War	18
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	18
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	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
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	16
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	16
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	15
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	15
Win-Win Deescalation	15
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	15
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	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
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	14

Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	14
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	13
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	13
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	13
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	12
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	12
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion	11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	11
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	11
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	10
Foreign Aid, Development, and US Strategic Interests in the Cold War	10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance	9
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	9
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	9
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	9
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	9
How Do Consociations Craft Asylum Policy? Lebanon’s Response to Conflict-Induced Displacement as an Exploratory Case	8
Carrots as Sticks: How Effective Are Foreign Aid Suspensions and Economic Sanctions?	8
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	8
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	8
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	8
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	8
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	8
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	8
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	7
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	7
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	7
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	7
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	7
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	7
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	6
The Gendered Peace Premium	6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	6
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	6
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	6
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	6
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	6

Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	6
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	6
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	6
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage	5
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	5
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	5
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	5
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	5
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization	5
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	5
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	5
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon	5
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling	5
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	5
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	5
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	5
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	5
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	5
Policy Signaling and Foreign Electoral Uncertainty: Implications for Currency Markets	5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	5
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries	4
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	4
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	4
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis	4
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding	4
Dialectics of International Interventions through Scale, Space, and Time	4
Transient States and Timeless Ties: (In)Formality, Power Networks, and the EU Mission in Kosovo	4
From Diffusion to Diffuse-ability: A Text-as-Data Approach to Explaining the Global Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability Policy	4
Abstract Spaces for Intervention in Libya and Nigeria	4
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset	4
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	4
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media	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
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation	4
Central Bankers in Crisis: Interpersonal Trust, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Fed Swap Network during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis	4
An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism	4
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances	4
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology	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
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0	4
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments	4
“Making Democracy Safe for the World”: Kenneth Waltz on Realism, Democracy, and War	4
From Conflict to Communities: Fields’ Reshuffles and the Emergence of Communities of Practice in Humanitarian Logistics	4
Material Scarcity, Mortality, and Violent Conflict	4
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians	4