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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazilian foreign policy under Jair Bolsonaro: far-right populism and the rejection of the liberal international order	45
A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from China, Australia, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States	12
Republican internationalism: the nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international order	12
State personhood and ontological security as a framework of existence: moving beyond identity, discovering sovereignty	12
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change?	11
Results and prospects: an introduction to the CRIA special issue on UCD	11
The liberal international order and the global south: a view from Latin America	10
Predictably unpredictable: Trump’s personality and approach towards China	10
Donald Trump and the survival strategies of international organisations: when can institutional actors counter existential challenges?	9
Decolonising resilience: reading Glissant’sPoetics of Relation in Central Eurasia	9
Theorizing unpredictability in international politics: a new approach to Trump and the Trump Doctrine	9
Foreign aid in times of populism: the influence of populist radical right parties on the official development assistance of OECD countries	9
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	9
An East Asian approach to temporality, subjectivity and ethics: bringing Mahāyāna Buddhist ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations	8
The distribution of power in the periphery: an approach with the World Power Index	7
Ordinary lives behind extraordinary occupations: on the uses ofRubiconfor a social history of American intelligence	7
Regaining relevance: IPE and a changing global political economy	7
Ritual and authority in world politics	6
The Latin American politics of international law: Latin American countries’ engagements with international law and their contradictory impact on the liberal international order	6
Democratic decline in the EU and its effect on democracy promotion in Central Asia	6
Cultural sanctions and ontological (in)security: operationalisation in the context of mega-events	6
Bringing back the concept of colonial pacification in the study of preventing violent extremism (PVE) practices: the case of Tunisia	6
“No future for Libya with Gaddafi”: Classical realism, status and revenge in the UK intervention in Libya	6
The transnational and the international: from critique of statism to transversal lines	6
Unpredictability as doctrine: Reconceptualising foreign policy strategy in the Trump era	6

Uneven and combined development: a defense of the general abstraction	6
Denying the international	5
Forging their path in the Brussels bubble? Civil society resistance within the domestic advisory groups created under the EU trade agreements	5
Forum: doing historical international relations	5
Locating Central Eurasia’s inherent resilience	4
Women and black employees at the Central Intelligence Agency: from fair employment to diversity management	4
A damage assessment framework for insider threats to national security information: Edward Snowden and the Cambridge Five in comparative historical perspective	4
Racialised international order? Traces of ‘yellow peril’ trope in Germany’s public discourse toward China	4
A geopolitical account of the Eastern Mediterranean conundrum: sovereignty, balance of power and energy security considerations	4
Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’	4
The importance of bona fide friendships to international politics: China’s quest for friendships that matter	4
Rewiring unevenness: the historical sociology of late modernisation beyond the west/east duality	3
The public-private distinction in the shadow of China: Uneven and combined development’s critique of liberal IR theory?	3
A ‘relational turn’?: the merging of history, sociology, and IR	3
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order: whose vision for the ‘good life’ will matter?	3
Fragile interdependence: the case of Russia-EU relations	3
Propaganda photographs as a tool of North Korean public diplomacy: an experimental analysis of the Kim Jong-un effect	3
The Azerbaijani resilient society: explaining the multifaceted aspects of people’s social solidarity	3
TimeSpace of the ‘international’?	3
Introduction: Trump and unpredictability in international relations	3
Imposing evenness, preventing combination: charting the international dynamics of socio-technical imaginaries of innovation in American foreign policy	3
Democracy promotion under populist rule? The case of Poland’s democracy aid in Ukraine	3
Contemporary humanitarians: Latin America and the ordering of responses to humanitarian crises	3
Contesting the EU’s external democratization agenda: an analytical framework with an application to populist parties	2
Introduction: the decline of democracy and rise of populism in Europe and their effect on democracy promotion	2
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	2
Norm contestation in EU foreign policy: understanding the effects of opposition and dissidence	2
Overseas economic interest perspective in foreign policy—a case study of China	2
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	2
Secrets, spies and editors in Cold War America: Ben Bradlee and theWashington Post	2
Epistemic security and the redemptive hegemony of magical realism	2
Trans-atlantic (mis)trust in perspective: asymmetry, abandonment and alliance cohesion	2
Preventive military strike or preventive war? The fungibility of power resources	2
Establishing the limits of the liberal international order: Latin America and the demand for development	2
Schools of international affairs in the United States: a historical sketch	2
Bringing the ‘social’ in from the cold: towards a social history of American intelligence	1
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	1
International origins of Austria-Hungary	1
Japan and regulatory convergence in TPP and JEEPA: path dependence, complex governance and obstacles to triadic closure	1
Resource nationalism and asymmetric bargaining power: a study of government-MNC strife in Venezuela and Tanzania	1
The enduring appeal of autocrats	1
The unpredictability factor: Nixon, Trump and the application of the Madman Theory in US grand strategy	1
The legacy of the Arab uprisings on Turkey’s foreign policy: Ankara’s regional power delusion	1
(Re-)conceptualising the international: introduction to the special section	1
National adequation and critical originality in the work of Antonio Candido	1
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	1
Letter from the editors	1
States as colonial projects: Unevenness, combination and race through the lens of Abya Yala	1
History, race and the pitfalls of ideal normative theorising	1
Sources of empire: Negotiating history and fiction in the writing of historical IR	1

Designing suspension clauses to defend democracy: lessons from negotiating the OAS's Washington Protocol	1
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	1
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era: Global Britain or wavering Britain?	1
Crisis management in international organisations: the League of Nations’ response to early challenges	1
Inter-regionalism in the Global South: comparison with extra-, cross-, trans-, and pan-regionalism	1
Freeing uneven and combined development from the whip of external necessity: toward a synthesis with Dussel’s liberation philosophy	1
Temporal ideologies in uneven and combined development	1
Crossing the curtain: British activists and the echoes of soviet dissent in contemporary Russian human rights activism	1
China’s search for the future to answer the past: Liu Cixin, (science-)fiction and Chinese developmentalism	1
Uneven and combined development, international political economy, and world-systems analysis	1
Critique and the Black Horizon: questioning the move ‘beyond’ the human/nature divide in international relations	1