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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Military Alliances and Public Support for War	34
Infrastructural Geopolitics	30
Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States	26
Why Does Aid Not Target the Poorest?	26
Breaking the Myth of Cyber Doom: Securitization and Normalization of Novel Threats	25
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia	23
Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics	22
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years: Political Nostalgia and China's Revival of the Silk Road	21
The Varieties of Coups D’état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset	20
The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What, Whose Emotions Matter, and the “History Problem” in Sino-Japanese Relations	20
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies: Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump	20
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War	20
Angling for Influence: Institutional Proliferation in Development Banking	19
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries	18
Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy	18
Can We Predict Armed Conflict? How the First 9 Years of Published Forecasts Stand Up to Reality	16
Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South	16
The Increasing Representativeness of International Organizations’ Secretariats: Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997–2015	16
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects	14
Public Opinion on Institutional Designs for the United Nations: An International Survey Experiment	14
The Geopolitical Threat Index: A Text-Based Computational Approach to Identifying Foreign Threats	14
Hierarchy in Regime Complexes: Understanding Authority in Antarctic Governance	13
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	13
Foreign Fighters and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	13
Liberal Ideology and Foreign Opinion on China	12

Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	11
Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change	11
Technology and Territorial Change in Conflict Settings: Migration Control in the Aegean Sea	11
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings	11
Algorithms and Influence Artificial Intelligence and Crisis Decision-Making	10
Seeing Is Disbelieving: The Depths and Limits of Factual Misinformation in War	10
Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians	10
Which Institutions Matter? Re-Considering the Democratic Civil Peace*	10
Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Why Women Don't Influence Peacemaking	10
One without the Other? Prediction and Policy in International Studies	9
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid	9
Validating Threat: IO Approval and Public Support for Joining Military Counterterrorism Coalitions	9
Subgroup Differences in Implicit Associations and Explicit Attitudes during Wartime	9
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump	9
The International Responsibility to Protect in a Post-Liberal Order	9
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	9
Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies	9
Do Intergovernmental Organizations Have a Socialization Effect on Member State Preferences? Evidence from the UN General Debate	9
Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer	9
Doubling Down: The Danger of Disclosing Secret Action	9
Mapping the Characteristics of Foreign Investment Screening Mechanisms: The New PRISM Dataset	9
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries	9
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War	9
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	9
Military Experience and Elite Decision-Making: Self-Selection, Socialization, and the Vietnam Draft Lottery	8
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	8
Deterrence in the Cyber Realm: Public versus Private Cyber Capacity	8
Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking	8
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence	8
Generals in the Cabinet: Military Participation in Government and International Conflict Initiation	8
Theorizing Public Performances for International Negotiations	8
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes	8
Identifying Pathways to Peace: How International Support Can Help Prevent Conflict Recurrence	7
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Rebel Constituencies and Civil War Alliances	7
Friends in the Profession: Rebel Leaders, International Social Networks, and External Support for Rebellion	7
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	7
From Litigation to Rights: The Case of the European Court of Human Rights	7
State Disengagement: Evidence from French West Africa	7
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	7
Sharing Saddles: Oligarchs and Officers on Horseback in Egypt and Tunisia	7
To Blame or to Support? Large-scale Insurgent Attacks on Civilians and Public Trust in State Institutions	7
Stabilizing Authoritarian Rule: The Role of International Organizations	7
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers	7
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory	7
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials	6
The Effect of Government Repression on Civil Society: Evidence from Cambodia	6
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	6
New Dimensions of Global Feminist Influence: Tracking Feminist Mobilization Worldwide, 1975–2015	6
Emigration and Political Contestation	6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	6

A House Divided: Norm Fragmentation in the International Human Rights Regime	6
Can UN Peacekeeping Promote Environmental Quality?	6
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–2012	6
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	5
Wargames Resurgent: The Hyperrealities of Military Gaming from Recruitment to Rehabilitation	5
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending	5
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force	5
International Norms as Emergent Properties of Complex Adaptive Systems	5
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	5
When Disasters Hit Civil Wars: Natural Resource Exploitation and Rebel Group Resilience	5
The Financial Consequences of Rating International Institutions: Competition, Collaboration, and the Politics of Assessment	5
Who Securitizes? Climate Change Discourse in the United Nations	5
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	5
Collective Deterrence in the Shadow of Shifting Power	5
Multinational Banks and IMF Conditionality	5
What Are We Actually Talking About? Conceptualizing Data as a Governable Object in Overlapping Jurisdictions	5
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	5
Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities	5
Emotional Practices and How We Can Trace Them: Diplomats, Emojis, and Multilateral Negotiations at the UNHRC	5
Not between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Singapore's Hedging	5
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	5
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia	5
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad	5
Leader Visits and UN Security Council Membership	5
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	5
Names from Nowhere? Fictitious Country Names in Survey Vignettes Affect Experimental Results	5
Regime Uncertainty and Interstate Conflict	4
Strategic Ontologies: Narrative and Meso-Level Theorizing in International Politics	4
When are International Organizations Responsive to Policy Problems?	4
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Refugee Flows, Refugee Rights, and Political Violence	4
Rebel Primary Commodity Markets, Price Shocks, and Supplier Victimization	4
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises	4
Combining Computational and Archival Methods to Study International Organizations: Refugees and the International Labour Organization, 1919–2015	4
Trade Competition and Worker Compensation: Why Do Some Receive More than Others?	4
Navigating NGO–Government Relations in Human Rights: New Archival Evidence from Amnesty International, 1961–1986	4
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	4
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	4
Paradigms and Practice	4
Interests, Institutions, and the Environment: An Examination of Fisheries Subsidies	4
Monitoring the Monitor? Selective Responses to Human Rights Transgressions	4
All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict	4
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage	4