OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	17
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	15
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	14
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	14
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	12
Bringing the climate into existence	12
International/inter-carbonic relations	11
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period	11
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	11
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition	11
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	10
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	9
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	9
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	9
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	9
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	9
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	9
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	8
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	7
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	7
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	7
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	7
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	7
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	7
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	6

The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	6
Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order	6
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	6
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	6
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	6
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	6
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	6
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	5
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	5
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	4
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	4
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	4
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	4
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	4
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	4
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	4
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	4
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	4
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	4
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	4