OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 3. 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