OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
EU economic governance and Covid-19: policy learning and windows of opportunity	101
European Union Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: adaptability in times of Permanent Emergency	71
The Covid-19 crisis: a critical juncture for EU climate policy development?	68
Theorizing institutional change and governance in European responses to the Covid-19 pandemic	67
Nein to ‘Transfer Union’: the German brake on the construction of a European Union fiscal capacity	37
The development of EU health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: trends and implications	34
Introduction: the politicisation of permanent crisis in Europe	34
Discursive continuity and change in the time of Covid-19: the case of EU cybersecurity policy	32
The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	26
Framing immobility: Schengen governance in times of pandemics	23
A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe	23
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers	23
Sizing up the competition: explaining reform of European Union competition policy in the Covid-19 era	22
Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime: An Explanation of Policy Change	20
Consensus against all odds: explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia	19
Lost in Regulation: Nord Stream 2 and the Limits of the European Commission’s Geo-Economic Power	17
‘Push or pull’? Framing immigration in times of crisis in the European Union and the United States	17
A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union	16
Championing the ‘German model’? Germany’s consistent preferences on the integration of fiscal constraints	15
Reframing the language of human rights? Political group contestations on women’s and LGBTQI rights in European Parliament debates	14
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	14
Enduring consensus: why the EU legislative process stays the same	14
Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020	14
Politicizing support and opposition to migration in France: the EU asylum policy crisis and direct social activism	13
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	13

What role for national parliaments in EU governance? A view by members of parliament	13
Importing EU norms: the case of anti-corruption reform in Ukraine	12
Populism meets EU Foreign policy: the de-Europeanization of Poland´s Foreign policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	12
Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan	12
He who controls the process controls the outcome? A reappraisal of the relais actor thesis	11
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic	11
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	11
The European defence fund: a step towards a single market for defence?	11
Foreign policy and de-Europeanization under the M5S–League government: exploring the Italian behavior in the UN General Assembly	10
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration: a big data analysis	10
Defending European integration by (symbolically) integrating European defence? Germany and its ambivalent role in European security and defence policy	10
Power without a cause? Germany’s conflict avoidance and the integration of European defence procurement	10
Borrowing in the European Union: from a pure national model to the antechamber of a European fiscal federal solution	9
The European Council as a crisis manager and fusion driver: assessing the EU’s fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	9
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	9
Defying Europe? The Euroscepticism of radical right and radical left voters in Western Europe	8
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	8
Ontological crises, framing and the (de)politicisation of EU foreign policy: the case of EU-Israel relations	8
Construction of the Eurozone crisis: re- and depoliticising European economic integration	8
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	8
From Trevi to Europol: Germany’s role in the integration of EU police cooperation	8
Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy	8
The Troika in its own words: responding to the politicisation of the southern European crises	8
Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten	8
Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas	7
The return of the commission social entrepreneurship before and after the Covid-19 pandemic	7
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	7
One step forward, two steps back: the ambiguous role of Germany in EU Asylum policies	7
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma	7
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	7
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019	7
Unity over diversity? The politics of differentiated integration after Brexit	7
Towards a ‘gold standard for the world’? The European General Data Protection Regulation between supranational and national norm entrepreneurship	7
The Return of Intergovernmentalism? De-Europeanisation and EU Foreign Policy Decision-making	7
Explaining Italian foreign policy adjustment after Brexit: a Neoclassical realist account	7
The discursive construction of discontent: varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive interactions in Europe	6
Half-full or half-empty? Framing of UK–EU relations during the Brexit referendum campaign	6
Political steering in the European Commission: a comparison of the energy and health sectors	6
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	6
United we stand in metaphors: EU authority and incomplete politicisation of the crisis in Ukraine	6
The future EU–UK partnership: a historical institutionalist perspective	6
Opportunistic sub-regionalism: the dialectics of EU- Central-Eastern European relations	5
Power to the people? Evaluating the European Commission’s engagement efforts in EU copyright policy	5
De-Europeanisation of Czech policy towards Eastern Partnership countries under populist leaders	5
Cross-dimensional network of democracy promotion: public administration reform in post-Euromaidan Ukraine	5
Introduction to the special issue: the persistent challenges to European Banking Union	5
Speaking on Europe’s behalf: EU discourses of representation during the refugee crisis	5
The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	5

Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa	5
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman	5
Governance, accountability, and political legitimacy: who participates in the European parliament’s committee hearings (ECON 2004–2014)	4
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	4
Hierarchy, polyarchy, and experimentalism in EU banking regulation: the Single Supervisory Mechanism in action	4
European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens	4
Reconciling participatory and evidence-based policymaking in the EU Better Regulation policy: mission (im)possible?	4
De facto differentiation in the EU’s economic and monetary union - A rationalist explanation	4
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	4
Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2	4
Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?	4
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	4
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	4
Hidden phases of de-Europeanization: insights from historical institutionalism	4
“The advantage of being inside the wall when it is built.” US multinationals’ direct investments in the Common Market, the balance of payments deficit and Bretton Woods (1958-74)	4
An ever more entangled Union? The European Union’s interactions with global governance institutions	4
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	4
Integration through (case) law in the context of the Euro area and Covid-19 crises: courts and monetary answers to crises	4
De-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making: assessing an exploratory research agenda	4
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	4
National parliaments as ‘multi-arena players’ in the European Union? Insights into Poland and France	4
The European Central Bank, the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the COVID-19 related economic crisis: a neofunctionalist analysis	4
Higher education in the single market between (trans)national integration and supranationalisation: exploring the european universities initiative	3
Knowledge power Europe	3
Challenges to the European single market at thirty: renationalisation, resilience, or renewed integration?	3
A new hope for europhiles? The 2017 German federal elections and the revenge of the pro-European mainstream	3
Why did they comply? External incentive model, role-playing and socialization in the alignment of sanctions against Russia in Albania and Montenegro	3
Public procurement and European Union integration: a systematic review	3
Towards an ever stronger politicization? How members of the European Parliament deal with values in social networks	3
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	3
A free lunch from the EU? Public perceptions of corruption in cohesion policy expenditure in post-communist EU member states	3
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	3
National courts as regulatory agencies and the application of EU law	3
‘Pushing the boundaries’: a dialogical account of the evolution of European case-law on access to welfare	3
The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on Sino-European relations	3
Ontological security, crisis and political myth: the Ukraine war and the European Union	3
Power in the European Union: an evolutionary computing approach	3
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	3
The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work	3
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	3
Inside the EU–China Human Rights Dialogue: assessing the practical delivery of the EU’s normative power in a hostile environment	3
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	3
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	3
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	3
Electoral incentives for territorial representation in the European Parliament	3
Gendering European politics: A story of Progress and Backlash	3
Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system	2
Investing in the single market? Core-periphery dynamics and the hybrid governance of supranational investment policies	2
Banking Union — a stability-oriented macroeconomic or an efficiency-oriented microeconomic project?	2
Is there any ‘price’ for making individual EU politicians more important? The personalization of politics in the European Commission	2
Who holds the elephant to account? Executive power political accountability in the EU	2
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	2
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	2
Public support for the European solidarity deal in EU debtor states: the case of Greece	2
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament	2
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	2
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	2
No peace from corona: defining EU strategy for the 2020s	2
Connecting the dots: a closer look at the linkage between EU implementation experiences and EU policy change	2
Participation of ministers in Council of the EU meetings: variation across members and decline over time	2
Niger – Europe’s border guard? Limits to the externalization of the European Union’s migration policy	2
Moral Hazard, central bankers, and Banking Union: professional dissensus and the politics of European financial system stability	2