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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	48
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	44
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	36
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	36
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	29
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	27
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	27
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	21
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	20
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	20
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	19
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	18
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	17
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	17
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	17
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	16
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	15
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of COVID-19	15
The turn to turns in International Relations	15
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	15
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	14
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	14
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	14
Theorising global IR through regional peripheries: Southeast Asia between civilisations, empires and great powers	14
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	14

Corrigendum to “Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations”	13
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	13
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	12
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	12
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	12
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	11
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	11
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	10
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	10
Macrosecuritisation failure and technological lock-in: lessons from the history of the bomb	10
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	10
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	9
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	9
The politics of international solidarity	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	9
Corrigendum to “Concept formation in historical International Relations”	9
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	8
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
Methods of economic statecraft: A typology and an agenda for research	8
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	7
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	7
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	7
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	7
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	6
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
With or without you: how junior allies balance security and autonomy	5
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	5
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	5
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	5
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	5
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	5
Digital provision inclusion in trade agreements: the death of (digital) distance through a gravity model approach	5
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	5
Summitry as the social international: performance, audience, and vicarious identification	5
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
Protect and punish: norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities	4
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	4
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	4
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	4

Measurement = generative: bridging IR’s epistemological divides with quantum mechanics’ measurement apparatus	4
History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility	4
‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	4
A blessing or a curse? The role of money in shaping international health governance	4
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	4
The Ukrainian meme machine: digital diplomacy and ‘quantum humour’	3
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	3
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	3
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	3
Hydroponics and geopolitics: soilless farming and visions of state power, c.1936–1972	3
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
The international dynamics of counter-peace	3
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	3
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: cross-national survey and elite cues experiment in NATO countries	2
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	2
The geopolitics of passive revolution and the ghost of Malthus in the American Century	2
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	2
Critical junctures in International Relations: antecedents, contingency, and change in world politics	2
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	2
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	2
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	2
The sword is a mighty pen: changing concepts of treason and the state beyond Hobbesian origin myths	2
Women against Putin: gendered security threats and female leaders	2
Conceptualising autocracy promotion as commercialisation: marketising narratives and Chinese responses to central Asian protests	2
Let’s not argue: diplomatic legal talk and the issues of abortion and same-sex partnerships	2
Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion	2
Interests, ideologies, and great power spheres of influence	2
Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization	2
International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right	2
Historicizing theory at the end of the world	2
The complex effects of regime complexity: a conflict model	2
Activating archives for the practice turn in International Relations	2
Myanmar’s redemptive revolution: constituent power and the struggle for sovereignty in the Nwe Oo (Spring) Revolution	2
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	2
A substantive approach to peace: rebel group issues and the durability of peace agreements	2
The question of truth: how facts, space and time shape conversations in IR	2
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	2
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	2
Anachronism and International Relations theory	2
Informal state influence in international organizations: examining the link between executive head nationality and earmarked funding	2