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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	37
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics	27
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance	26
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM	21
The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance	20
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics	20
RIS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	19
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order	18
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires	18
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism	18
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda	17
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation	17
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation	17
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations	16
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action	16
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain	16
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority	16
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations	15
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach	15
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power	15
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms	15
The agnopolitics of refoulement: Migration diplomacy and the un/knowing of regional refugee deportation to Syria	14
RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	14
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins	14
The future is just another past	14

RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	14
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society	12
Unknowing the future: Speculative foresight in international institutions and the unexpected ‘origins’ of expertise	11
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design	11
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania	11
Order-building from the margins: Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea reconsidered through liminality and competing systems	11
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy	10
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth	10
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo	9
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights	9
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection	9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa	9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	9
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union	9
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan	8
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council	8
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine	8
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law	8
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations	7
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism	7
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression	7
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest	7
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 2074	7
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine	7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age	7
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM	6
External threats and democratisation: Burma 1988 and South Korea 1987	6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity	6
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia	6
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project	6
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR	6
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM	6
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making	6
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia	6
RIS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	6
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world	5
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)	5
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations	5
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation	5
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons	5
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation	5
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction	5
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM	5
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil	5
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene	5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism	5
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR	5

Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia	5
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
RIS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work	4
‘Pirates’, ports, politics: The Gulf (khalīj) & international society’s expansion	4
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics	4
RIS volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	4
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance	4
Fauda and the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Gender, emotions, and visual representations of complicity in international politics	4
It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom	4
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution	4
Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics	4
Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders	4
RIS volume 51 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	4
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered	4
The politics of partisan memory: Last letters of anti-fascist resistance in Italy and France (1943–2003)	4
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential	4
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’	4