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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

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	62
On Empire, Race and Global Justice, the Joseph Fletcher prize forum	33
What is anticolonial and anti-imperial political thought?	20
Letter from the editors	18
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	15
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	14
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	13
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	12
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	8
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	7
Letter from the editors	7
On the medicalisation of global politics: a conversation with Roberto Esposito	6
Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations	6
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	6
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities	6
Myth-making and the laws of war	6
Wolf warrior diplomacy and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from policy to podium	5
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	5
Letter from the editors	5
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era: Global Britain or wavering Britain?	5
A new narrative of statelessness	4
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan	4
Counterpoints for a new agenda in the study of global injustices	4
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	4

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Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering	4
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	4
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs	3
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	3
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	3
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	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
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	3
Letter from the editors	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	2
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Sarah Wolff, 2021, Secular Power Europe and Islam; Identity and Foreign Policy	2
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order: whose vision for the ‘good life’ will matter?	2
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa Turkey’s strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	2
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	2
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	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
Response to the reviewers: on imagining Afghanistan	2
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	2
The Guicciardini Prize Forum: reply to comments	2
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Forum shopping across multilateral negotiations: Kyrgyzstan’s mountain diplomacy between the United Nations General Assembly and the UNFCCC COPs	1
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	1
Jason Lyall, divided armies: inequality and battlefield performance in modern war	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of ‘Man’	1
Letter from the editors	1
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Of imperial men and the contested origins of International Relations	1
Unsettling origin stories	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	1
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	1