OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 2. 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
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	14
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	13
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade	9
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	9
Historical materialism and international studies: Theorising the politics of struggle in the everyday world	8
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	8
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order	8
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	8
Varieties of international reconciliation: the configuration of interest and reflection after conflict	7
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	7
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Emotion norm violations in small communities: The Carter-Brezhnev hotline correspondence	6
Interventionist or internationalist? Coercion, self-determination, and humanitarianism in Third World practice	6
Transforming epistemological disconnection from the more-than-human world: (inter)nodes of ecologically attuned ways of knowing	6
Reconstructing neoclassical realism: a transitive approach	6
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	5
Foreign policy change as rhetorical politics: domestic-regional constellation of Global South states	5
International crisis in the midst of civil war	5
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban	5
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	4
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	4
Strength born of weakness: the advantages of open maritime polities in multipolar international systems	4
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	4
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR	4
Obama and the use of force: a discursive institutionalist analysis of Libya and Syria	4

Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	3
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	3
Assemblages of conflict termination: popular culture, global politics and the end of wars	3
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	3
Bringing the climate into existence	3
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	3
After the end of the world? Rethinking temporalities of critique and affirmation in the Anthropocene	3
International/inter-carbonic relations	3
Common concern for the global ecological commons: solidarity with future generations?	3
A gendered analysis of US decline: a cautionary tale	3
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	3
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	3
Bipartisanship on China in a polarized America	3
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	2
Sovereignty and trading states: denuclearization in Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Ukraine	2
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise	2
Wartime in the 21st century	2
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	2
Outer space and the idea of the global commons	2
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	2
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	2
The race for best friendship in Sino-Gulf relations: fractured cooperation and conflict in times of strategic uncertainty	2
Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics: warfare by other memes	2
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	2
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	2
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors	2
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	2
The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid	2
From the ‘Open door’ policy to the EU-Turkey deal: Media framings of German policy changes during the EU refugee ‘crisis’	2
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly	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
A theory’s time perspectives: contributing to a theory’s inadequacy	2
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	2
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR	2
Internal relations in global capitalism	2
Comparing Chinese and EU trade agreement strategies: lessons for normative power Europe?	2
Shrinking planet, expanding imaginary: the imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain	2