OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	26
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	17
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	16
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	15
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period	14
International/inter-carbonic relations	14
Bringing the climate into existence	14
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition	14
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	13
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	13
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	11
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	11
Reassessing the Iran Nuclear Deal: Obama’s Foreign Policy Learning	11
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	11
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	10
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	10
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	9
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	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	8
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	8
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	8
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	7
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	7
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	6

Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order	6
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	6
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	6
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	6
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	6
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	6
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	5
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	5
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	5
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	5
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	5
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	5
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	5
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	5
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	5
Populist foreign politics: the substitution of politics for interests	5