OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Relations is 1. 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
The discourse and aesthetics of populism as securitisation style	15
Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions	12
Separatists, state subjectivity, and fundamental ontological (in)security in international relations	9
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations	9
Resilience to crisis and resistance to change: a comparative analysis of the determinants of crisis outcomes in Latin American regional organisations	8
Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics	8
Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage	8
Introduction: cooperation, conflict, and interaction in the global commons	8
Outer space and the idea of the global commons	7
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	7
A contestation of nuclear ontologies: resisting nuclearism and reimagining the politics of nuclear disarmament	6
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order	6
China’s challenge to the global commons: compliance, contestation, and subversion in the maritime and cyber domains	6
Better for whom? Sanction type and the gendered consequences for women	6
Muddying the waters: migration management in the global commons	5
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	5
Chasing gender equality norms: the robustness of sexual and reproductive health and rights	5
Neorealism, neoclassical realism and the problem(s) of history	5
‘Acting under Chapter 7’: rhetorical entrapment, rhetorical hollowing, and the authorization of force in the UN Security Council, 1995–2017	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	4
Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity	4
Internal relations in global capitalism	4
At war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19	4
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	3
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	3

From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	3
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	3
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	3
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	3
From the ‘Open door’ policy to the EU-Turkey deal: Media framings of German policy changes during the EU refugee ‘crisis’	3
War and strange non-death of neoliberalism: The military foundations of modern economic ideologies	3
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly	3
Gate-opening political economy	3
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations: A sketch	2
The international system and the Syrian civil war	2
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	2
The state of concept: A new analytical tool for political research	2
Wartime in the 21st century	2
Comparing Chinese and EU trade agreement strategies: lessons for normative power Europe?	2
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	2
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries	2
Follow the bodies: Global capitalism, global war, global crisis and feminist IPE	2
The reactionary internationale: the rise of the new right and the reconstruction of international society	2
Theorizing state stigmatization: A comparative perspective on South Africa and Israel	2
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	2
Common concern for the global ecological commons: solidarity with future generations?	2
Trusted intermediaries: Macmillan, Kennedy and their ambassadors	2
The liturgy of triumph: victory culture, popular rituals, and the US way of wartiming	2
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	2
Dealing with guilt and shame in international politics	2
King in the North: evaluating the status recognition and performance of the Scandinavian countries	2
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	2
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	2
Regulatory networks and regional human rights governance: A study of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions	1
Historical materialism and international studies: Theorising the politics of struggle in the everyday world	1
Exercising status recognition sensibility: the empathic de-escalation of the Sino-Indian 1998 status dilemma	1
Selective humanitarians: how region and conflict perception drive military interventions in intrastate crises	1
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	1
Animalising International Relations	1
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	1
The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics	1
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR	1
China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses	1
Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics: warfare by other memes	1
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	1
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	1
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	1
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	1
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective	1
Explaining Arctic peace: a human heritage perspective	1
Imagined communities: from subjecthood to nationality in the British Atlantic	1
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	1
The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations	1
Strength born of weakness: the advantages of open maritime polities in multipolar international systems	1

A necessarily historical materialist moment? Feminist reflections on the need for grounded critique in an age of crises	1
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	1
Sovereignty and trading states: denuclearization in Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Ukraine	1
Peace research meets implementation studies: The role of implementing actors	1
Reconstructing neoclassical realism: a transitive approach	1
Conflict and Covid-19: exploring the effects on women	1
Western populism and liberal order: a reflection on ‘structural liberalism’ and the resilience of Western liberal order	1
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations	1
Faith abroad: how religion shapes Trump administration’s foreign policy	1
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives	1
Why Asian states cooperate in regional arrangements: Asian regionalism in comparative perspective	1
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	1
International/inter-carbonic relations	1
Bipartisanship on China in a polarized America	1
A gendered analysis of US decline: a cautionary tale	1