OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Political Theory 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Yan Fu and the Cross-Cultural Diffusion of Liberalism	26
Deciphering the Paradox of Digital Citizenship	26
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement: Selma James’s Internationalism of the Unwaged	17
Racist Political Theory and the Mythology of Coherence	16
The Asceticism of the Oppressed: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Collective Self-Transformation	9
The Stories We Tell: Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis and Pericles’s Funeral Oration	9
The Hermarchus–Spinoza Complex: Epicurean Politics and the “Naturalism vs. Constructivism” Opposition	8
Truth and Loyalty	7
Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China	7
Review Essay: Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization	7
Review Essay: Theorizing Race, Theorizing Politics	7
Book Review: Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab , by Falguni A. Sheth Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, by ShethFalguni A	7
A Postcolonial Theory of Free Speech	6
The Politics of Platonism: Voltaire’s Socrate and the Dynamics of Canons	6
Politics of Evolution: Hayek’s Naturalization of Neoliberalism	6
Book Review: Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity , by Gary Wilder Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solida	6
The Utilitarian Classical Liberalism of Ludwig von Mises and Its Libertarian Misreception	5
Book Review: Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements , by Deva R. Woodly	5
Letter From the Editors	5
What Is the Point of Legitimacy? The Grounds of Political Legitimacy, by PeterFabienne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 246.An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy, by BrinkmannMa	4
Book Review: On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It , by Michael P. Lynch and A Democratic Theory of Truth	4
Book Review: The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine by Irit Katz	4
Book Review: Based on: Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory , by Jeanne Morefield Based on: Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Polit	4
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America	4
The Hottentot’s Chain: Pride and Return to Equality in Rousseau’s Second Discourse	3

Adam Smith on Social Progress and the Evolution of Love	3
Futures of Political Theory	3
Against Project Arcadia	3
Book Review: Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens by William Max Nelson	3
Book Review: Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought , by Temin, David Myer Remapping	3
Book Review: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and African American Political Thought , by Melvin L. Rogers The Darkened Light of Faith: Race	3
The Boundary Problem in Workplace Democracy: Who Constitutes the Corporate Demos?	3
Separatism, the Mayflower , and the Congregational Theory of the Corporation	3
Book Review: Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance , by Beausoleil, Emily Staging Democracy: The Political Work of Live Performance,	3
Passing By: Zarathustra’s Other Response to Revenge	3
Genealogy Beyond Critique: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as Coalitional Worldmaking	3
Book Review: Review Essay: Rethinking Welfare and the Politics of Risk	3
Book Review: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization , by Kevin D. Pham The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decoloni	2
State-of-the-Field Essay: Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges	2
From the Editors	2
Self-Restriction, Political Myth, and the Politics of the Ordinary: Mou Zongsan’s Confucian Democracy	2
The Canonical Conundrum of 2065	2
Book Review: Prison Abolition for Realists , by Anna Terwiel Prison Abolition for Realists, by TerwielAnna, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2	2
Why Did They Assume Only Humans Had Politics?	2
Facts, Arte-Facts , and Fabrications: The Crisis of Public Epistemic Authority	2
Book Review: Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism , by Kornbluh, Anna Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism, by AnnaKornbluhLondon a	2
The Privilege of Territory: Christian Wolff at the Origins of Statist International Thought	2
The “Recognition Trap”: Self-Constitution, Culture, and Mutual Recognition in Fanon’s Project of Freedom	2
On the Egalitarian Value of Electoral Democracy	2
Book Review: Marx’s Ethical Vision , by Vanessa Christina Wills Marx’s Ethical Vision, by WillsVanessa Christina, New York: Oxford University Press, 2024	2
From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn	2
Book Review: The Democratic Sublime. On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly , by Jason Frank The Democratic Sublime. On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly, by F	1
Review Essay: Breaking Ground: The Legacy of Michael Dawson’s Black Visions in Black Political Thought	1
Two Concepts of Plurality: Positive and Negative Pluralisms in Moral and Political Thought	1
From Reel to Reality: Zelenskyy, Populism, and the Fantasy of the Plebeian President	1
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization	1
Oriental Despotism and the Limits of Doux Commerce , from Montesquieu to Raynal	1
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War	1
Spectacle, Surveillance, and the Ironies of Visual Politics in the Age of Autonomous Images	1
Repetition in Action: Søren Kierkegaard and the Problem of Human Agency in the Anthropocene	1
The Stories We Share: Learnings from a Hundred Years of the Three Communities	1
The Tempos of Decolonization: Violence, Temporality, and Colonial Korea	1
The Tribunate as a Realist Democratic Innovation	1
Book Review: Love Troubles: A Philosophy of Eros , by Federica Gregoratto Love Troubles: A Philosophy of Eros, by GregorattoFederica, New York: Columbia	1
“This Unfortunate Development”: Incarceration and Democracy in W. E. B. Du Bois	1
The Ambiguity of Betrayal: Contesting Myths of Heroic Resistance in South Africa	1
“What Will You Tell Them When They Ask You?” Reflexive Accountability in a Democratic Regime	1
Whistling Past the Graveyard	1
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market: Capitalist Slavery as Expropriation	1
Book Review: The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault , by Daniele Lorenzini The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy	1
“His Is a Reverent Vandalism”: Alain Locke’s Aesthetics and Fugitive Democracy	1
On Political Theory and Large Language Models	1