OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Review of International Affairs 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Adam B. Lerner, From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics Adam B. Lerner, From the ashes of history: collectiv	58
Letter from the editors	28
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	21
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	14
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	13
Cultural images and foreign policy learning: Portugal’s adaptation to Timor-Leste signs of change (1987-1991)	12
Made in China: When US–China Interests Converged to Transform Global trade	12
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	11
What is anticolonial and anti-imperial political thought?	10
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	9
Myth-making and the laws of war	9
Letter from the editors	8
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	6
On the medicalisation of global politics: a conversation with Roberto Esposito	6
‘Barking, biting, or just… growling’? Unidas Podemos and Spain’s reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	6
Indivisibility of ontic spaces as conflict catalyst: Temple Mount in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	5
Reply to reviewers: Cambridge review of international affairs	5
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities	5
Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations	5
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	5
Between joy and fear: the duality of emotions in Japan’s addresses to the United Nations General Assembly	5
Letter from the editors	5
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	4
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	4

Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering	4
Wolf warrior diplomacy and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from policy to podium	4
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	3
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	3
China’s search for the future to answer the past: Liu Cixin, (science-)fiction and Chinese developmentalism	3
Small and peripheral countries out of their own league? The case of Lithuania’s proactive Indo-Pacific policy	3
2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations	3
Where the hegemons meet: rethinking the Thucydides Trap, from Hellas to the pacific	3
IR otherwise	3
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	3
A new narrative of statelessness	3
Empathy and diplomacy: South Korea–Japan relations under the Kishida administration	3
The Indo-Pacific as Japan’s emotional space: emotions, the duality of space, and Watsuji tetsurō’s aidgara	3
The politics of international law	3
Letter from the editors	3
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs	3
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	3
Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphic turn toward scientific progress Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphi	3
Engaging in and with complexity: local actors, Mayors for Peace and the global nuclear order	3
Rohan Mukherjee, Ascending Orders: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions	3
The shift towards caution: the changing landscape of humanitarian ınterventions within the UN Security Council (1990–2020)	2
Nuclear energy policy in a multipolar world: strategic choices and global alignments	2
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	2
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	2
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Preserving the ‘pecking order’ in Europe’s diplomatic hierarchies: comparing the place of Central Eastern Europeans in the EU and NATO	2
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence	2
Introduction to CRIA prize forum on States and the Masters of Capital	2
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war	1
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	1
Small-state foreign policy in the Western Balkans: continuity and change in Albania’s Euro-Atlantic and regional strategy	1
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	1
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1
Temporalities of independence and closure: violence in the UN-trusteeships of Togoland and Cameroon	1
Crossing the curtain: British activists and the echoes of soviet dissent in contemporary Russian human rights activism	1
Letter from the editors	1
Forum shopping across multilateral negotiations: Kyrgyzstan’s mountain diplomacy between the United Nations General Assembly and the UNFCCC COPs	1
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	1
Letter from the editors	1
International criminal justice and the coloniality of therapeutic governance: Balkanism, queerness, and the ICTY	1
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa Turkey’s strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
Reimagining IR’s biomedical foundations: East Asian medicine and the need for cosmological plurality	1
Letter from the editors	1
Pathways for history and international relations	1

Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of ‘Man’	1
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
From historical bias to historical insight: shifting stereotypes about Central and Eastern Europe after the invasion of Ukraine	1
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s COVID-19 response	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	1
China’s construction projects in the CEE region: neo-mercantilist perspective and data analysis	1
Dilemma? What graduation dilemma? Colombia and the future of development cooperation	1
Exploring the limits of localisation through the UK’s contestation of R2P’s peaceful measures in Syria	1
Letter from the editors	1