OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Relations with Russia in The Context of Turkey’s Policy in Constructing its ‘Strategic Autonomy’	10
Uluslararası İlişkiler Disiplini ve Niteliksel Yöntem: Türkiye’de Göç Çalışmaları Örneği	9
From Arming to Fighting? The Steps to War, Mutual Military Buildups and Dispute Onset in the Greece-Ottoman Empire/Turkey Rivalries	6
Sergei I. ZHUK, KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 (London and New York, Routledge, 2022)	6
Kjell ÖSTBERG, The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy	5
“Strong, but Anxious State”: The Fantasmatic Narratives on Ontological Insecurity and Anxiety in Turkey	5
Diana T. KUDAIBERGEN, The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship	4
Kishore MAHBUBANI, The Asian 21st Century	4
Worst of Friends, Best of Rivals: Agency vs Structure in Turkey-Russia Relations	4
Understanding the Complexities of the Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Puzzle by Regional Security Complex Theory	4
Construction of European identity by the Pro-European Parties	4
The Return of the State and Its Alla Turca Version	3
The Complexity Effect in U.S.-Turkey Relations: The Restructuring of the Middle East Regional Security	3
1939 İngiliz-Fransız-Türk Antlaşması’na Dair Dikkatlerden Kaçan Bir Gerçek: Özel Anlaşma’da Yer Alan ‘Erteleyici Madde’nin Kaldırılması	3
Architectures of Similarity: Fragments, Islands and other Escapes from the Turkey and Europe Framework	3
A Political Economy of Historical Change and Continuity in Turkish Foreign Policy	3
Introducing the Response to Sponsorship Dataset: Determinants of Responses by Target States to State Sponsors of Rebel Groups	3
Anxiety, Dissonance and Imperial Amnesia of the European Union	3
Turkey and the Greater Eurasian Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges in “Amalgamated” Regionalism	3
Debating National Identity Through the China Model: An Ideological Spectrum Analysis	3
The Rise of China and its Interplay with the Russian and Turkish Regimes	3
Foreign Language Acquisition and Learning of Late Ottoman Ambassadors and Consuls (1885-1910)	3
Toni HAASTRUP, Luis MAH and Niall DUGGAN (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations	3
Transformation of Turkish-Russian Relations: Rivalry and Cooperation in Eurasia and the Levant	2
Zeynep ŞAHİN-MENCÜTEK, N. Ela GÖKALP-ARAS, Ayhan KAYA, and Susan Beth ROTTMANN, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration	2

Reconciling Tensions in the Analysis of Bourgeois Revolutions: A Critical Realist Approach	2
Anxiety, Ambivalence and Sublimation: Ontological In/security and the World Risk Society	2
The Role of Ideas and Identities in Shaping Economic Decisions: The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis and Turkey-Greece-Cyprus Triangle	2
‘Welcoming’ Guests: The Role of Ideational and Contextual Factors in Public Perceptions About Refugees and Attitudes about Their Integration	2
Nele Marianne EWERS-PETERS, Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter	2
Impact of the Montreal Protocol on Decision-Making Processes for Participation: A Case Study of Türkiye	2
Assessing the Impact of Turkey’s Quest for Status Since the 2000s on Foreign Policy Change: Transformational or Transactional?	2
Spatial Imaginations of “Turkey” and “Europe”: An Introduction	2
Dominique AREL and Jesse DRISCOLL, Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022	2
Chanintira na THALANG and Yong-Soo EUN, Global International Relations in Southeast Asia	2
Hope and Despair: Understanding Change in Turkey-EU Relations	2
Making Sense of Turkey’s Foreign Policy from the Perspective of Neorealism	1
Taming Anxieties, Coping with Mnemonic Conflicts: Cultural Diplomacy of Crimean Tatar and Lithuanian American Diasporas through Historical Films	1
The Changing Nature of the Natural Gas Trade between Russia and Turkey: The Role of Climate Change and the EU Institutions	1
Mitigating the Political Cost of Financial Crisis with Blame Avoidance Discourse: The Case of Turkey	1
From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial	1
Recrafting International Relations by Worlding Multiply	1
Undoing a Hybrid Regime: What Lessons can be Extracted from the Case of North Macedonia?	1
An Ecofeminist Contribution to the Debates on the Neoextractivist Development Model in Latin America	1
A Conceptual History: Historical Sociological Analysis of Unipolarity in Structural Realist Literature	1
Spatial Constructions of Homeland in Turkish National Identity: Exclusion and Inclusion of Europe	1
Emotion Norms and International Securitization in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Official Russian Narratives on the Ukrainian-Russian War	1
Turkey as Normative Power: Connections with the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring	1
Making Sense of Risky Haredi Behaviors in Israel During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
İlker AYTÜRK and Berk ESEN (eds.), PostPost-Kemalizm: Türkiye Çalışmalarında Yeni Arayışlar (İletişim Yayınları, 2022)	1
Through the Lenses of Morality and Responsibility: BRICS, Climate Change and Sustainable Development	1
Re-scaling and Globalizing EU-Turkey Bilateral Relations in the Changing Global Political Landscape	1
Sogo Angel OLONFINBIYI, On The Crisis of Boko Haram Terrorism: Causes and Perspectives (New York, Routledge, 2023)	1
Katharina VOLK, The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar	1
Authoritarian Populism as a Response to Crisis: The Case of Brazil	1
Ohannes GEUKJIAN, The Russian Military Intervention in Syria	1
Individual Leaders and the State: The Case of Israel as a Complex Adaptive System	1
Turkey at 100: Between Constancy and Change	1
Resistance and Change in Form and Content of International Law: A Third World Perspective on Commodity Form Theory of International Law	1
Simon MABON, The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran; Ibrahim FRAIHAT, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict; Talal MOHAMMAD, Iranian-Saudi Rivalry Since 1979:	1
The Transition from Quantitative to Computational Methods in Foreign Policy Analysis	1
Joseph MCQUADE, A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea and Alice MARTINI, The UN and Counter-Terrorism: Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities	1
Henry KISSINGER, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy (New York, Penguin Press, 2022)	1
Paul D'ANIERI, Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivilized War (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023)	1
Citizenship Hierarchies: Talent Programs, Commodification Debates and Citizenship at the Nexus of Market and Desirability Logics	1