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

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	55
Letter from the editors	26
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	21
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	13
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	13
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	12
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	12
What is anticolonial and anti-imperial political thought?	11
Cultural images and foreign policy learning: Portugal’s adaptation to Timor-Leste signs of change (1987-1991)	10
Letter from the editors	9
Myth-making and the laws of war	9
Made in China: When US–China Interests Converged to Transform Global trade	9
Between joy and fear: the duality of emotions in Japan’s addresses to the United Nations General Assembly	7
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	7
‘Barking, biting, or just… growling’? Unidas Podemos and Spain’s reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
Indivisibility of ontic spaces as conflict catalyst: Temple Mount in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	5
On the medicalisation of global politics: a conversation with Roberto Esposito	5
Reply to reviewers: Cambridge review of international affairs	5
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	4
Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations	4
Letter from the editors	4
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities	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

On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	4
Small and peripheral countries out of their own league? The case of Lithuania’s proactive Indo-Pacific policy	3
Letter from the editors	3
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	3
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs	3
2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations	3
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	3
A new narrative of statelessness	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
Rohan Mukherjee, Ascending Orders: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions	3
Engaging in and with complexity: local actors, Mayors for Peace and the global nuclear order	3
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	3
IR otherwise	3
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	3
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	3
Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphic turn toward scientific progress Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphi	3
The Indo-Pacific as Japan’s emotional space: emotions, the duality of space, and Watsuji tetsurō’s aidgara	3
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	3
Introduction to CRIA prize forum on States and the Masters of Capital	2
From historical bias to historical insight: shifting stereotypes about Central and Eastern Europe after the invasion of Ukraine	2
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa Turkey’s strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s COVID-19 response	2
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence	2
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	2
International criminal justice and the coloniality of therapeutic governance: Balkanism, queerness, and the ICTY	2
Pathways for history and international relations	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	1
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Letter from the editors	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of ‘Man’	1
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Letter from the editors	1
Exploring the limits of localisation through the UK’s contestation of R2P’s peaceful measures in Syria	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
China’s construction projects in the CEE region: neo-mercantilist perspective and data analysis	1
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war	1
Forum shopping across multilateral negotiations: Kyrgyzstan’s mountain diplomacy between the United Nations General Assembly and the UNFCCC COPs	1
Letter from the editors	1
Reimagining IR’s biomedical foundations: East Asian medicine and the need for cosmological plurality	1
Temporalities of independence and closure: violence in the UN-trusteeships of Togoland and Cameroon	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	1
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	1
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1

Letter from the editors	1
Crossing the curtain: British activists and the echoes of soviet dissent in contemporary Russian human rights activism	1
Dilemma? What graduation dilemma? Colombia and the future of development cooperation	1