OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of International Relations is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	27
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	24
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	23
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	20
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	19
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	19
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	17
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	17
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	16
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	14
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	12
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	11
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	10
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	10
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	10
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	9
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	9
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	9
Corrigendum	9
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	9
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	9
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	8
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	8
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	8
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	8

Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	7
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	7
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	7
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	7
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	7
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	7
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	7
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	6
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	6
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	6
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	6
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	6
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	6
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	6
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	6
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	6
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	6
The end of global pluralism?	5
Editorial	5
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	5
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	5
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	5
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	5
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	5
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	5
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	5
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	5
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	5
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	4
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	4
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	4
Protect and punish: norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	4
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	4
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	4
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	4
Mission (im)possible? UN military peacekeeping operations in civil wars	4
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	4
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	4
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	4
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	4
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	4
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	4
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	4
The international dynamics of counter-peace	3
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	3
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	3

The geopolitics of passive revolution and the ghost of Malthus in the American Century	3
Corrigendum	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
Populism and foreign aid	3
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	3
December 2021 issue: ‘Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors’	3
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	3
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	3
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	3
Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy	3
Myanmar’s redemptive revolution: constituent power and the struggle for sovereignty in the Nwe Oo (Spring) Revolution	3
Women against Putin: gendered security threats and female leaders	2
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	2
Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion	2
International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right	2
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners	2
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	2
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	2
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	2
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	2
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	2
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	2
Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization	2
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	2
‘Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory	2