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

Article	Citations
Borders in Cyberspace: Digital Sovereignty Through a Bordering Lens	165
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	88
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	42
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	31
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	31
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	26
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	25
The Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death during the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Human Shields and the Gulf War	25
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	22
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	22
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	21
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	21
Citizen Support for a European Defense Union: An International Conjoint Experiment on Security Cooperation in Europe	21
Win-Win Deescalation	17
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	17
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	17
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	17
Introducing the Mandates of International Organizations’ Missions (MIOM) Dataset: Comprehensive Data on the Mandates of UN and Regional Organizations’ Missions, 1989–2020	17
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	16
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	16
State Control over Telecommunications, Surveillance, and Militant Mobilization	16
Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries	15
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	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

“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	14
Capital Mobility and Taxation: State–Business Collusion in China	14
Decision by Design: Leaders, Bureaucracies, and International Crisis Performance	14
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	13
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	13
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	13
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	13
The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force	13
Public Support for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Conditionality in International Monetary Fund Bailouts	13
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention	12
IO Endorsements, Perceived Alignment, and Public Support for Unpopular Policies	12
Do Different Coercive Strategies Help or Hurt Deterrence?	12
Cross-Network Weaponization in the Semiconductor Supply Chain	11
Not So Dangerous? Nationalism and Foreign Policy Preference	11
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations	11
Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China's Public Diplomacy	11
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	11
Speaking Volumes: Introducing the UNGA Speech Corpus	11
A New Era: Power in Partnership Peacekeeping	11
Entangled Narratives: Insights from Social and Computer Sciences on National Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures	10
Trading with Frenemies: How Economic Diplomacy Affects Exports	10
Public and Private Information in International Crises: Diplomatic Correspondence and Conflict Anticipation	10
Insuring the Weak: The Institutional Power Equilibrium in International Organizations	10
Immigration, Justice Remittances, and US Courts	10
Correction to: Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	9
Participatory Rebel Governance and Durability of Peace	9
Triggers of State-Led Mass Killing	9
Pressed to Prolong: Conscription, the Costs of Military Labor, and Civil War Duration	9
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations	9
Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict	9
Unpacking Legitimacy Perceptions of Investment Dispute Settlement: Effects of Outcome and Procedure	9
Network Context and the Effectiveness of International Agreements	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
Manipulating Public Beliefs about Alliance Compliance: A Survey Experiment	8
Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent	8
Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly	8
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework	8
Organizations, Resistance, and Democracy: How Civil Society Organizations Impact Democratization	8
Domestic Kindling, International Sparks?	7
Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies	7
Foreign Policy as Compensation: Why Brexit Became a Foreign and Security Policy Issue	7
Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	7
The Gendered Peace Premium	7
Global Finance, Political Business Cycles, and the Politics of Foreign Reserves	7
Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status	7
Economic Sanctions and Food Consumption: Evidence from Iranian Households	7
When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets	7
Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation	7
What Does Queer IR Want? A Queer Psychoanalytic Critique	7

Why Economic Development Does Not Diminish Religious Conflict	6
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	6
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	6
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	6
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	6
The Curse of Coercive Mediation: The Instrumentalization of External Military Support in Peace Processes and the Breakdown of Imposed Agreements	6
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	6
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	6
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	6
Bipartisanship in the Shadow of China’s Rise: The Effect of External Threats on Internal Unity in the US Congress	6
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	6
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	6
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	6
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	6
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	6
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	6
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	6
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	6
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	6
Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare	6
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	6
Is There a Religious Dimension to Concern about Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Nigeria?	6
Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions	5
Trauma, Home, and Geopolitical Bordering: A Lacanian Approach to the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Democracy and Markets in a Partially Globalized World: Local and Global Financial Market Responses to Elections in Developing Countries	5
Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology	5
Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding	5
Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang	5
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	5
Contesting the Securitization of Migration: NGOs, IGOs, and the Security Backlash	5
Revisiting Central Bank Independence in the World: An Extended Dataset	5
Strategic Humanitarianism and US Refugee Admissions after the Cold War	5
Presenting the Governmental Incompatibilities Data Project (GIDP) 2.0	5
Developing-Country Representation and Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: The Case of IMF Governance Reform	5
Historical Claims to the International: The Case of the Suez Canal Experts	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
Understanding the Determinants of ICC Involvement: Legal Mandate and Power Politics	5
Mere Puffery or Convincing Claims? Rebel News and Civilian Perceptions of the Balance of Power	5
Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media	5
Digital Multilateralism in Practice: Extending Critical Policy Ethnography to Digital Negotiation Sites	5
Crime and Punishment in International Politics: On the Agency and Moral Standing of Community	5