OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
How Institutions Moderated the Pandemic's Economic Impact in EU Member States	53
Opportunity, Presence and Entrepreneurship: Why the EU Acts Externally on Higher Education*	41
Bringing the EU Back In: Rethinking the United Kingdom's Post‐Brexit Bilateralism	39
Is there a Common Digital Market in the European Union? Implications for the European Digitalization Strategy	38
Compliance with EU Law from 1989 to 2018: The Commission's Shift from a Normative to a Regulative Approach	37
EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come	31
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, by S.Biscop (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781529217506); xii+250 pp., £75.00 hb.	29
Euro Area: Towards a European Common Bond? – Empirical Evidence from the Sovereign Debt Markets	29
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When Foreign Policy Becomes Trade Policy: The EU's Anti‐Coercion Instrument	27
Relational Power, Brokers and Influence: A Study on the Controversial Issue of Fracking in the European Union	26
Is the Governance of Europe's Transnational Party System Contributing to EU Democracy?*	25
Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe, by C. de Vries and S. Hobolt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780691206547); xv+314pp., £25.00 ebook.	25
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	25
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Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	22
Sectoral Governance under the EU's Bilateral Agreements and the Limits of Joint Institutional Frameworks: Insights from EU‐Swiss Bilateralism for Post‐Brexit Relations with the UK	22
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Reflections on the Present and Future of European Studies: Expanding our Understanding of EUrope	21
The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises, edited by M.Riddervold, J.Trondal, and A.Newsome (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030517908); xxi+796 pp., €192,59 hb.	20
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	20
Broadening the Debate on EU‐Africa Relations: Towards Reciprocal Approaches, edited by F.Mattheis and J.Kotsopoulos (Oxon: Routledge, 2020, ISBN 9780367444273); xi+139pp., £120.00 hb.	20
Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics	19
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It Takes Two to Tango: The European Union and the International Governance of Securitization in Finance	18
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	18
Patterns of Opposition in the European Parliament: Opposing Europe from the Inside?, by B.Carlotti (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030536831); xix+248pp., €38.00 ebook.	16
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	16
The Failure of Remain: Anti‐Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom, by A.Fagan and S.Van Kessel (Montreal & Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023, ISBN 9780228014133); vi	15
Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe^*	15
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	14
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	14
The Formation of British Attitudes towards the Common Market: 1957–72	14
Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	14
How Foundational Narratives Shape European Union Politics	13
Cross‐Border Social Dumping as a ‘Game of Jurisdiction’ – Towards a Legal Geography of Labour Relations in the EU Internal Market*	13
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Coming In: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia, KoenSlootmaeckers (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2023, ISBN 9781526159342); xiii + 234 pp.	13
EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	12
Issue Politicization in the European Parliament. An Analysis of Parliamentary Questions for Oral Answer (2004–19)*	12
From Legal to Political Reasoning: National Parliaments' Use of Reasoned Opinions in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice^*	11
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	11
Overlooked Yet Ongoing: Policy Termination in the European Union	11
An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	11
Examination of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Directive From the Maritime Point of View	11
Two Norms Collide: EU Policy on Fragile and Conflict‐Affected Countries	10
Playing the Market Card: The Commission's Strategy to Shape EU Cybersecurity Policy	10
Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	10
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	10
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	10
Preference Constellations in EU–Russian Crisis Bargaining over Syria and Ukraine	9
Policy Learning and European Integration	9
Walking the Tightrope: Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP*	9
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	9
From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	9
From the 2014 Annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian War on Ukraine: Path Dependence and Socialization in the EU–Ukraine Relations	9
The EU's Geoeconomic Turn: From Policy Laggard to Institutional Innovator	9
Implementing the European Green Deal during the Evolving Energy Crisis	8
(De‐)politicization Discourse Strategies: The Case of Trade	8
The EU’s Transactional Approach to Rule of Law Spending Conditionality in the 2020s	8
The European Union as a Target: When Do Democratic Backsliders Rhetorically Challenge the EU?	8
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	8
Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	8
Competition Policy in Action: Regulating Tech Markets with Hierarchy and Experimentalism	8
The Invasion of Ukraine and the Flight to Safety into the EU 2022–2023	8
Correction to ‘This time wasn't different: Responsiveness and responsibility in the Eurozone between 2007 and 2019’	8
A “More Political” Commission? Reassessing EC Politicization through Language	8
The Geoeconomic Turn of the Single European Market? Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Trends	8
The Two Disjointed Faces of R&D and the Productivity Gap in Europe	8
A Geoeconomic Fix? European Industrial Policy on Semiconductors Amidst Global Competition	7
Everything Everywhere All at Once? Introducing a Field‐Theoretic Model for Party Politics in the European Union	7
Influence Through Co‐operation? Regional Parliaments' Participation in the European Union Subsidiarity Scrutiny	7
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	7

A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	7
Tackling Unintended Consequences of EU Sanctions: NGOs' Advocacy for Humanitarian Exceptions	7
The Risks and Benefits of Differentiated Integration in the European Union as Perceived by Academic Experts	7
Territorial Conflict, Domestic Crisis, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the South Caucasus. Explaining Variegated EU Responses	7
Supranational Self‐Empowerment Through Bricolage: The Role of the European Commission in EU Security and Defence	7
The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: An End of Term Review	7
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	7
This Time Wasn't Different: Responsiveness and Responsibility in the Eurozone between 2007 and 2019	7
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Is the Journey more Important than the Destination? EU Accession and Corporate Governance and Performance of Banks	6
The Impact of Immigration on Attitudes toward the EU: Evidence from a Three‐Country Survey Experiment*	6
The Rise and Stall of EU Macro‐Prudential Policy. An Empirical Analysis of Policy Conflicts over Financial Stability, Market Integration, and National Discretion*	6
A Matter of Public Importance? The ‘Europe Open for Business’ Campaign, British Public Opinion and the Single Market	6
Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks	6
In the Shadow of Global Polycrisis: Consensus and Polarization in the 2023 Estonian and Finnish Parliamentary Elections	6
European Union Enlargement and Geopolitical Power in the Face of War	6
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Interpreting Legitimation Through Participation: The ASEAN Civil Society Conference	6
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of EU Defence: The Past and the Future in the European Defence Fund	6
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	6
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	6
Continued Absence: A Case Study of EU Salience in the Swedish Parliamentary Election of 2022	6
The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	6
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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	6
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement	6
The Power and Performance of ‘Association Bodies’ under the EU's Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine	6
Are EU Institutions Still Green Actors? An Empirical Study of Green Public Procurement	6
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	6
The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	6
The Unlikely Survival of Erdoğan in Turkey's May 2023 Elections	6
First Order for some. How Different Forms of Politicization Motivated Voters in the 2019 European Parliamentary Election	5
Unveiling Inconsistency: Consensus and Contestation along the Council–Comitology Cycle of EU Policy‐Making	5
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	5
Conservative Liberalism, Ordo‐Liberalism, and the State – Disciplining Democracy and the Market, by K.Dyson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780198854289); xxxix+542 pp., £110.00 hb.	5
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European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	5
Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union, by F.Bieber and R.Bieber (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030550158); viii+233pp., €93.00 hb.	5
Europe's Strategic Future: From Crisis to Coherence?, by S.Raine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9780367357757); 264pp., £22.00 pb.	5
Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union, by M.Krasnodębska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030515232); xiv+248pp., €71.00 pb.	5
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit, by C.Hill (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019, ISBN 9781509524617); xiii+223 pp., £50.00 hb.	5
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Governing Migration through Multi‐Level Governance? City Networks in Europe and the United States^*	5
Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, by R.Bellamy, S.Kröger and M.Lorimer (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781529219920); x+190pp., £47.99 hb.	5
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	5
The EU's Green Dynamism: Deadlock and Change in Energy and Environmental Policy, by H.Deters (London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/ECPR Press, 2018, ISBN 9781786606655); xi+179pp., £60.00 hb.	5
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Home Field Advantage? EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreement Meeting Locations and Textual Tone	5
How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision‐Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive*	5
Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	5
The EU Commission During the Covid‐19 Crisis: Attempts at Self‐Empowerment, or Not?	4
No More Gouda in Moscow? Distributive Effects of the Imposition of Sanctions	4
Indicative Planning and France's Backstage Contribution to Eurozone Governance	4
The EU and Third Countries: Consequences for Democracy and the Political Order	4
Blacklisting and the EU as a Global Regulator: The Institutionally Predisposed Norm Breaker	4
Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition	4
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Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	4
Decentralized EU Policy Coordination in Crisis? The Case of Germany	4
EU Cohesion Policy and Inter‐regional Risk‐sharing: First Evidence and Lessons Learned	4
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Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU: A Research Agenda on the Institutional Strategies, Public Spheres and Analytical Challenges	4
EU Snapshots: 2021 Matters Pandemic and Endemic	4
Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience: A Cross‐National Analysis of Populist Parties' Impact on Democratic Pluralism in Europe, byBenCrum andAlvaroOleart [Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN	4
Theorizing and Testing Cross‐Loading: The EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and Polish Concessions to Germany's Russia Policy	4
Kirchberg Salami Lost in Bosphorus: The Multiplication of Judicial Independence Standards and the Future of the Rule of Law in Europe	4
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	4
The Politics of Labour that Underlies European Monetary Integration	4
Limits of Law in the Multilevel System: Explaining the European Commission's Toleration of Noncompliance Concerning Pharmaceutical Parallel Trade*	4
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Improving Government Quality in the Regions of the EU and its System‐Wide Benefits for Cohesion Policy	4
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Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	4
Conditionality as an Instrument of European Governance – Cases, Characteristics and Types	4
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Europe's New Technocracy: Boundaries of Public Participation in EU Institutions	4
Eternal Friends or Jubilant Brexiteers? The Impact of Brexit on UK MEPs' Parliamentary Work in the European Parliament	4
Constitutionalizing the EU in an Age of Emergencies	4

EU Emissions Trading for Transport and Buildings: Saved by Synergistic Institutional Interaction?	4
Power or Luck? The Limitations of the European Commission's Agenda Setting Power and Autonomous Policy Influence	4
Getting your House in Order for EU Negotiations: When Domestic Constraints Condition Italy's Performance at the EU Level*	4
Long‐term care in EU policy 1999‐2022: women's responsibility, migrants' work?	4
Narrating Europe: (Re‐)constructed and Contested Visions of the European Project in Citizens' Discourse	4
Governing by Enabling in Multilevel Systems: Capacity Building and Local Climate Action in the European Union	4
‘Our European Friends and Partners’? Negotiating the Trade and Cooperation Agreement	4