OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telos is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From Kant to Krupp—and Kiev: Vladimir Ern on Kantianism as a Source of War, 1914 and Today	2
Introduction	2
Introduction	1
Introduction	1
Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Its Relations with World Literature	1
The New Class Conflict Gets Worse	1
Carl Schmitt and Friedrich Hölderlin on the Earth	1
A Moral Core in a Political Realist: A Centennial Reappraisal of Carl Schmitt’s	1
Nationality of Food: Cultural Politics on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Museums	1
Imbuing Liberalism with Lost Spirit: Timothy Stacey	1
Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”	1
On the Spectacles of Market Society	1
Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights	1
A Professional-Managerial Imperium: The National Security State and American Power	0
Postcolonial Activism: An Infantile Disorder	0
Natural Law and Unalienable Rights	0
Family, Tragedy, Democracy, and Populism: The Exchange between Jessica Benjamin and Christopher Lasch	0
Locations of China in World Literature	0
The Antinomies of Refugee Reason	0
Introduction	0
Xi Jinping’s Political Model and the Typology of Communist Regimes: An Ideological Approach	0
Third Term Comparison	0
The Early Christian Origins of Secularization	0
A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis	0
Carl Schmitt, Rousseau, and the French Revolution	0

“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations	0
Reforming Higher Education	0
For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies ofSFFA v. Harvard	0
Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society	0
The Kyoto School’s Wartime Philosophy of a Multipolar World	0
The Polemics of China’s Counter Cosmopolitanism	0
Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”	0
Dialogues	0
Max Stirner, Identity Politics, and the Demand for Conformity from Its Opponents	0
Contemplation in a Restless Age: Byung-Chul Han on Ritual	0
From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther	0
The Savage Savants	0
Introduction	0
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Rise of the Nation-State	0
Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right	0
Pre-reflective Self-awareness and Polyperspectivity in Chinese Landscape Painting	0
Toward a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: A Perspective to Compare China and the West	0
Some Politics are Local: Homogeneity, Identity, and Legal Revolution in American Democracy	0
Realist Internationalism and the Issue of Legitimacy	0
The Infinite Conversation: Carl Schmitt on Parliamentarism and Romanticism	0
Introduction to the Special Section on Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023: Uncritical Theory and Antisemitic Semiotics	0
From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective	0
What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments	0
Toward a Democratic Theory of Emergency Medical Services: Solidarity, Sovereignty, Temporality	0
Within an American Grain	0
Comfort in Rootlessness	0
Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt	0
Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?	0
The Confluence of Western Monotheism and Eastern Buddhism as a Potent Force for World Peace	0
Introduction	0
Effective Altruism in between Right-Wing and Left-Wing Anarchisms	0
The Jüngerian Question of Technology	0
Human Rights Practice and Natural Law	0
America’s New Civil War	0
The World Said Built	0
“Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History	0
Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics	0
Introduction	0
Human Rights and Nation-State Sovereignty	0
Understanding Chinese Political Study: Historical and Fieldwork Political Study Revisited	0
Bleeding Ukraine	0
Social Media Cannot Be the Public Sphere: On Network Opinion Field from Habermas’s Public Sphere	0
notes and commentaries	0
Toward a Post-Critical Public Sphere in Germany and the United States	0
The Underlying Unity of the American People	0
The End of Affirmative Action Will Help Blacks and Hispanics	0
Doing Western Studies in China: Its Nature and Methods	0
The Place of Truth at the University	0
The Anaesthetic Crisis of Work and Leisure: On Byung-Chul Han’sThe Palliative Society	0
Reinventing the Humanities	0

The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road	0
Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging	0
Schmitt and the Rising Sun: The Early Reception of Carl Schmitt’s Thought in Imperial Japan	0
Toward a Theopolitical of the “International”	0
Is Communist China a New Type of Civilization? The Civilizational Argument in Contemporary Chinese Ideology	0
In Memoriam: Fred Siegel	0
Dignity and Human Rights: Aspirations and Challenges in an Age of Political Divisions, Distrust, and AI	0
Decentering the “West” and “China” in China–West Comparison	0
A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shūsaku Endō, and Global IR	0
What Connects Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Josef Redlich?	0
The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests	0
The End of the Academy as We Knew It	0
China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison	0
Myth and the Sovereignty of the People in Carl Schmitt’sThe Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy	0
Renewing the West’s Unique Universalism	0
The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings	0
Why Palestinian Violence Fails	0
“China and the West” as Lore and Lure	0
Welcome to the Machine: AI, Existential Risk, and the Iron Cage of Modernity	0
Anticipation, Social Theory, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves	0
The Burdens of Love and Time	0
The Prospects for Higher Education after October 7	0
Narrative with Commentary: Levinasian Discourse Theory	0
Civilizations, Autonomy, and War	0
Palestine Avenue	0
Ukraine and World Order: Today’s Scramble for Eurasia	0
Introduction	0
Escape from Civilization’s Predicaments	0
“With Desire I Have Desired”: Enjoying the Face of the Other as Political Theology: John Caputo and Dorothy Day Situating Hospitality as Divine Encounter	0
Introduction	0
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University	0
The “Mythological Machine” of Antisemitism: The Recycling of False Accusations against Jews in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	0
Of Civil Wars and Where They Lead: Some Reflections	0
The Commission on Unalienable Rights: Where Do We Go from Here?	0
Tolerance as Suppressed Disapproval	0
The Forms of War after 1945: From a World of “Great Wars” to a Planet for “Special Military Operations”	0
Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today	0
Can the Precariat Be Organized?: The Gig Economy, Worksite Dispersion, and the Challenge of Mutual Aid	0
Learning from Defeat: Sadik al-Azm and the Arab Defeat in 1967	0
Konstantin Krylov’s Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West	0
China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order	0
Thomas Carlyle’s Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism	0
Constitutional Origins of Ethnic Nationalism: Cultural Aporia of a Nation-State	0
The Second Coming of theTianxiaEmpire?A Theopolitical Interpretation of the (Coming) Sino-Taiwan War	0
Diversity and the End of Deference	0
The Clash of Civilization and World Community: The West and China	0
Empire, State, Nation: Glory to Ukraine	0
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory	0
Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology	0
The Second American Civil War Is Not Taking Place	0
The Jewish Body and the Trans Community after October 7: A Tale of Misidentification	0
Three Decades of Civil War in the United States: “Don’t Tread on Me”	0
We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’sHistory of SexualityVolume 1 Revisited	0
The Invisible Hand of the Chinese Communist Party	0
The Columbia University Encampment: Joseph Massad, Peter Beinart, and the Future of Campus Antisemitism	0
Stand Columbia	0
Introduction	0
Carl Schmitt, Don Quixote,and the Public: A Commentary	0
Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West’s Empire of Secularization	0