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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	13
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	12
Bringing the climate into existence	11
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	9
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period	9
International/inter-carbonic relations	9
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	8
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	7
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	7
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	7
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	7
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	7
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	7
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	7
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	6
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	6
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	6
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	6
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	6
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	6
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	6
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	6
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	6
China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses	5
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	5

The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	4
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	4
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	4
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	4
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	4
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	4
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	3
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	3
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	3
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	3
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	3
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	3
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	3
Wartime in the 21st century	3
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	3
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	3
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	2
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	2
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	2
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	2
Educating the United States on the ‘China threat’	2
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	2
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	2
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	2
Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case	2
When contestation legitimizes: the norm of climate change action and the US contesting the Paris Agreement	2
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade	2
Animalising International Relations	2
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	2
‘We watched his whole life unfold. . .Then you watch the death’: drone tactics, operator trauma, and hidden human costs of contemporary wartime	2
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations	2
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	2
Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I	2
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	2
Wartime, professional military education, and politics	2
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	2
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	2
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine	2
Interventions of post-colonial states in the normative structure of world politics: the case of Iran and the norm of democracy	2
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	2
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War	2
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics	2
A threshold account of last resort in the ethics of war	1
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries	1
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	1
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives	1
Think tank output as media input: a case study of transnational climate obstructionism	1
‘Broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	1

The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics	1
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors	1
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	1
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective	1
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR	1
Selective humanitarians: how region and conflict perception drive military interventions in intrastate crises	1
Central Europe: bringing a forgotten realm to Global International Relations	1
Domestic terrorism, incumbency, and legislative vote shares	1
The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations	1
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	1
The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid	1
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	1
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR	1
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban	1
Anxiety and possibility: the many future(s) of COVID-19	1
The reactionary internationale: the rise of the new right and the reconstruction of international society	1
Dealing with guilt and shame in international politics	1
Migrant stories meet great power rivalry? US media narratives of post-pandemic Chinese asylum seekers, 2022–2023	1
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise	1