OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Studies 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements	50
The Brandt Line after forty years: The more North–South relations change, the more they stay the same?	41
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age: Emotional registers and geopolitical imaginaries in COVID-19 narratives on Chinese social media	29
Relational revolution and relationality in IR: New conversations	26
Machine learning political orders	25
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity	20
Cosmopraxis: Relational methods for a pluriversal IR	20
Communities of practice and what they can do for International Relations	18
The heart of bureaucratic power: Explaining international bureaucracies’ expert authority	18
Visual diplomacy in virtual summitry: Status signalling during the coronavirus crisis	17
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world	17
Navigating gender in elite bargains: Women's movements and the quest for inclusive peace in Colombia	16
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	15
NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn	15
Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR	15
How do strategic narratives shape policy adoption? Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	15
Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives: Norm translation in Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico	14
Competition, cooperation, and adaptation: The organizational ecology of international organizations in global energy governance	14
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene	13
Introduction to the Special Issue: The multiple births of International Relations	12
Recrafting ontology	12
Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe	12
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria	12
States of ambivalence: Recovering the concept of ‘the Stranger’ in International Relations	12
Pragmatic ordering: Informality, experimentation, and the maritime security agenda	11

Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security	11
Pushing resistance theory in IR beyond ‘opposition’: The constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement in Japan	11
Reappraising the Chinese School of International Relations: A postcolonial perspective	11
Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in international relations	10
The Legon School of International Relations	10
Governing refugees through disorientation: Fragmented knowledges and forced technological mediations	9
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought	9
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding: Narrating postwar reintegration through livelihood in Liberia	8
Role and relation in Confucian IR: Relating to strangers in the states of nature	8
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics	8
Exploring the determinants of regional health governance modes in the Global South: A comparative analysis of Central and South America	8
Counter-peace: From isolated blockages in peace processes to systemic patterns	8
Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance	8
‘This is not who we are’: Gendered bordering practices, ontological insecurity, and lines of continuity under the Trump presidency	8
The coloniality of the religious terrorism thesis	8
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’	8
Whose rules? Whose power? The Global South and the possibility to shape international peacekeeping norms through leadership appointments	7
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics	7
The non-anthropocentric informational agents: Codes, software, and the logic of emergence in cybersecurity	7
From flows towards updates: Security regimes and changing technologies for financial surveillance	7
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground	7
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene	7
Inclusive conflict? Competitive clientelism and the rise of political violence	7
What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs	7
Counter-populist performances of (in)security: Feminist resistance in the face of right-wing populism in Poland	7
Migrant protection regimes: Beyond advocacy and towards exit in Thailand	6
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)	6
Why declare independence? Observing, believing, and performing the ritual	6
Polycentric governance of transit migration: A relational perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East	6
Actors, activities, and forms of authority in the IPCC	6
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea	6
Legitimacy under institutional complexity: Mapping stakeholder perceptions of legitimate institutions and their sources of legitimacy in global renewable energy governance	6
Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace	6
Taking trust online: Digitalisation and the practice of information sharing in diplomatic negotiations	6
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes	6
Provincialising International Relations through a reading of dharma	5
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas	5
The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea	5
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance	5
Disruption from above, the middle and below: Three terrains of governance	4
The global tree: Forests and the possibility of a multispecies IR	4
Time to break up with the international community? Rhetoric and realities of a political myth in Cambodia	4
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war	4
The foundation and development of International Relations in Brazil	4
Re-enacting the international order, or: why the Syrian state did not disappear	4
Peer review and compliance with international anti-corruption norms: Insights from the OECD Working Group on Bribery	4
Inadvertent reproduction of Eurocentrism in IR: The politics of critiquing Eurocentrism	4
Decolonising Development Studies	4
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order	4
Citizen-centred or state-centred? The representational design of International Parliamentary Institutions	4

The births of International Studies in China	4
Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order	4
Global intellectual history in International Relations: Hierarchy, empire, and the case of late colonial Indian international thought	4
Radical Islam in the Western Academy	3
AI and the future of IR: Disentangling flesh-and-blood, institutional, and synthetic moral agency in world politics	3
International rituals: An analytical framework and its theoretical repertoires	3
Against ontological capture: Drawing lessons from Amazonian Kichwa relationality	3
Transnational blindness: International institutions and refugees’ cross-border activities	3
An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism	3
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil	3
Nuclear weapons, extinction, and the Anthropocene: Reappraising Jonathan Schell	3
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo	2
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making	2
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment	2
Judicial diplomacy: International courts and legitimation	2
Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles	2
Cooperation between the EU and China: A post-liberal governmentality approach	2
Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries	2
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations	2
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law	2
From savages to snowflakes: Race and the enemies of free speech	2
A letter to Baba	2
Post-growth theories in a global world: A comparative analysis	2
Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing	2
Networked territoriality: A processual–relational view on the making (and makings) of regions in world politics	2
Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation: Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations	2
The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency	2
The international politics of truth: C. Wright Mills and the sociology of the international	2
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multispecies security and personhood	2
Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks	2
The politics of science: A postscript	1
The future is just another past	1
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance	1
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-19	1
Resilience as a ‘concept at work’ in the war in Ukraine: Exploring its international and domestic significance	1
The economic corridors paradigm as extractivism: Four theses for a historical materialist framework	1
Rethinking international intervention through coeval engagement: Non-formal youth education and the politics of improvement	1
Theorising sexual violence in global politics: Improvising with feminist theory	1
Becoming a humanitarian state: A performative analysis of ‘status-seeking’ as statecraft in world politics	1
‘When They Fight Back’: A cinematic archive of animal resistance and world wars	1
Toxic entanglements: Multispecies politics, white phosphorus, and the Iraq War in Alaska	1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption	1
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany	1
Invisible on the globe but not in the global: Decolonising IR using small island vistas	1
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania	1
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights	1
Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics	1
Forget what you hear: Careless Talk, espionage and ways of listening in on the British secret state	1
Imagining (in)security: NATO's collective self-defence and post-9/11 military policing in the Mediterranean Sea	1
International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria	1
On struggle as experiment: Foucault in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial movement intellectuals, for a new approach to theory	1
The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy	1
The external dimension of the EU's fight against transnational crime: Transferring political rationalities of crime control	1
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction	1
Bureaucracy and the everyday practices of contested state diplomacy: The paradigmatic case of Kosovo	1
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia	1
Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia	1
Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual	1
The ‘Question of Palestine’: From liminality to emancipation	1
World in the making: On the global visual politics of climate engineering	1
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution	1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)	1
Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory	1
Mary Shelley'sThe Last Man: Existentialism and IR meet the post-apocalyptic pandemic novel	1
Heartfelt truths: Towards an existentialist ethics of war	1
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene	1
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression	1
Post-growth peacebuilding	1
Who forms the mass in mass destruction?	1
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data	1
On making peace with nature: Visions and challenges towards an ecological diplomacy	1
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project	1
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics	1
Heidegger’s heritage: The temporal politics of authenticity, then and now	1
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism	1
Women’s discursive agency in transitional justice policy-making: A feminist institutionalist approach	1
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live	1