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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutional design for a post-liberal order: why some international organizations live longer than others	60
Reflexive discourse analysis: A methodology for the practice of reflexivity	36
The postcolonial migration state	34
Wargaming for International Relations research	24
How to make elite experiments work in International Relations	24
Infrastructure finance, late development, and China’s reshaping of international credit governance	23
A ritual approach to deterrence: I am, therefore I deter	21
Blended Diplomacy: The Entanglement and Contestation of Digital Technologies in Everyday Diplomatic Practice	21
The de-institutionalisation of power beyond the state	19
Rethinking causal explanation in interpretive international studies	18
Power and International Relations: a temporal view	18
Civil war recurrence and postwar violence: Toward an integrated research agenda	17
Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war	17
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	16
An international hierarchy of science: conquest, cooperation, and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty System	15
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	14
Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states	14
Populism and foreign aid	14
Explaining elite perceptions of legitimacy in global governance	14
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court	13
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	13
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	13
State recognition and dynamic sovereignty	12
Why norms rarely die	11
Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode	9

Hierarchy, revisionism, and subordinate actors: The TPNW and the subversion of the nuclear order	9
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali	8
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	8
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	8
Practice-based and public-deliberative normativity: retaining human control over the use of force	7
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	7
Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations	6
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	6
Subversion, cyber operations, and reverse structural power in world politics	6
The strength of weak bonds: Substituting bodily copresence in diplomatic social bonding	6
The art of uncommitment: the costs of peacetime withdrawals from alliance commitments	5
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	5
The end of global pluralism?	5
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	5
How trust is lost: the Food Systems Summit 2021 and the delegitimation of UN food governance	5
The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan	5
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century	5
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	5
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	5
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	5
Interests, ideologies, and great power spheres of influence	5
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	5
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	4
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	4
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	4
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	4
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	4
Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy	4
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	4
Entrusted norms: security, trust, and betrayal in the Gulf Cooperation Council crisis	3
Technologies of justice: forensics and the evolution of transitional justice	3
Porous organizational boundaries and associated states: introducing memberness in international organizations	3
Alliances, signals of support, and military effort	3
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	3
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping	3
The shadow of sanctions: reputational risk, financial reintegration, and the political economy of sanctions relief	3
Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid	3
The realist science of politics: the art of understanding political practice	3
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	3
How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India	3
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	3
Post-Eurocentric grand narratives in critical international theory	3
Hegemonic instability: complex interdependence and the dynamics of financial crisis in the contemporary international system	3
Global injustice and the production of ontological insecurity	3
The effects of debt restructurings on income inequality in the developing world	3
The standardisation of transitional justice	3
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	3
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	2

Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia	2
Dispute inflation	2
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	2
Combat, commitment, and the termination of Africa’s mutual interventions	2
Democracies’ support for illiberal regimes through sovereignty-protective regional institutions: the case of UNASUR’s electoral accompaniment missions	2
The international dynamics of counter-peace	2
Superweapons and the myth of technological peace	2
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	2
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	2
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	2
International functionalism and democracy	2
A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism	2
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	2
How diplomacy evolves: the global spread of honorific state awards	2
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	2
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	2
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	2
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance	2
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	2
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	2
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	2
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	2
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	2
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	2
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	2
Political regimes and foreign investment in poor countries: Insights from most similar African cases	2