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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign policy change as rhetorical politics: domestic-regional constellation of Global South states	18
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	11
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	10
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	9
Bringing the climate into existence	9
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	8
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	8
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	7
International/inter-carbonic relations	7
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	7
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	6
Why Asian states cooperate in regional arrangements: Asian regionalism in comparative perspective	6
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	6
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	6
Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage	6
Explaining Arctic peace: a human heritage perspective	5
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	5
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	5
Separatists, state subjectivity, and fundamental ontological (in)security in international relations	5
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	5
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	5
Theorizing state stigmatization: A comparative perspective on South Africa and Israel	5
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	5
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	4
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	4

China’s bid for international leadership in Central and Eastern Europe: role conflict and policy responses	4
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	4
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	4
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	4
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	3
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	3
Wartime in the 21st century	3
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	3
Assemblages of conflict termination: popular culture, global politics and the end of wars	3
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	3
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	3
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	3
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	3
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	3
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	3
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	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
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	3
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	3
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	2
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	2
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	2
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	2
Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I	2
Interventions of post-colonial states in the normative structure of world politics: the case of Iran and the norm of democracy	2
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	2
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	2
Educating the United States on the ‘China threat’	2
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War	2
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	2
Introduction: cooperation, conflict, and interaction in the global commons	2
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations	2
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine	2
Animalising International Relations	2
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	2
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	2
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	2
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics	2
Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics	2
China’s challenge to the global commons: compliance, contestation, and subversion in the maritime and cyber domains	2
‘We watched his whole life unfold. . .Then you watch the death’: drone tactics, operator trauma, and hidden human costs of contemporary wartime	2
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	2
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	2
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade	2
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	2
When contestation legitimizes: the norm of climate change action and the US contesting the Paris Agreement	1
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly	1
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	1
The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid	1
The state of concept: A new analytical tool for political research	1

The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations	1
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	1
Dealing with guilt and shame in international politics	1
Obama and the use of force: a discursive institutionalist analysis of Libya and Syria	1
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective	1
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	1
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	1
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise	1
‘Broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	1
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives	1
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban	1
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries	1
Central Europe: bringing a forgotten realm to Global International Relations	1
Wartime, professional military education, and politics	1
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors	1
A threshold account of last resort in the ethics of war	1
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR	1
Domestic terrorism, incumbency, and legislative vote shares	1
The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics	1
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	1
Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations: A sketch	1
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR	1