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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Of nomads and khanates: heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia	39
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	28
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	26
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	25
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	24
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	20
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	20
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	19
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	19
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance	18
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping	18
Ultimatums, bargaining, and the duty to preserve alternatives to war	16
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	15
Dispute inflation	14
A post-Hegelian theory of human rights: beyond recognition and the state	14
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	13
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	12
Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia	11
Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?	10
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	10
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	9
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	9
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	8
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	8
Why norms rarely die	8

The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	8
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century	8
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	7
Time, the state system and the double chronopolitics of managing ‘migrants’: implications of the Windrush scandal	7
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	7
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	7
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	6
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	6
When do member state withdrawals lead to the death of international organizations?	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	6
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	6
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	6
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	5
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	5
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali	5
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	5
Infrastructure finance, late development, and China’s reshaping of international credit governance	5
Corrigendum	5
Political regimes and foreign investment in poor countries: Insights from most similar African cases	5
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	5
Corrigendum. . .	5
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	4
Complex norm localization: from price competitiveness to local production in East African Community pharmaceutical policy	4
Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war	4
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	4
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	4
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations	4
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	4
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	4
Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts: the case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine	4
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners	4
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	4
Superweapons and the myth of technological peace	4
The end of global pluralism?	3
Nuclearization and de-democratization: security, secrecy, and the French pursuit of nuclear weapons (1945–1974)	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
The effects of debt restructurings on income inequality in the developing world	3
The question of truth: how facts, space and time shape conversations in IR	3
Issue-adoption and campaign structure in transnational advocacy campaigns: a longitudinal network analysis	3
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	3
Porous organizational boundaries and associated states: introducing memberness in international organizations	3
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	3
Interests, ideologies, and great power spheres of influence	3
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	3
Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode	3
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	3
The standardisation of transitional justice	3
Editorial	3
Populism and foreign aid	3

Brain worlds: information order and interwar intellectual cooperation	3
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	2
Alliances, signals of support, and military effort	2
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	2
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	2
Enacting the pluriverse in the West: contemplative activism as a challenge to the disenchanted one-world world	2
Technologies of justice: forensics and the evolution of transitional justice	2
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	2
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	2
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	2
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	2
Constructing decolonisation: the Greenland case and the birth of integration as decolonisation in the United Nations, 1946–1954	2
Do international parliaments matter? An empirical analysis of influences on foreign policy and civil rights	2
Blended Diplomacy: The Entanglement and Contestation of Digital Technologies in Everyday Diplomatic Practice	2
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	2
How to make elite experiments work in International Relations	2
Wargaming for International Relations research	2
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	2
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	2
The postcolonial migration state	2
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	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
Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy	2
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	2