OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Studies 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 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
Reappraising the Chinese School of International Relations: A postcolonial perspective	11

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
The Legon School of International Relations	10
Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in 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
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes	6
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
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance	5
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
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