OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of International Relations is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	53
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	50
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	31
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	31
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	28
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	25
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	22
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	21
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	21
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	21
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	21
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	19
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	19
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	18
The empirical evidence of audience costs theory: a quasi-meta-analysis of case evidence based on Bayesian logic	16
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	16
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	16
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of COVID-19	15
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	15
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	15
The turn to turns in International Relations	15
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	15
Theorising global IR through regional peripheries: Southeast Asia between civilisations, empires and great powers	14
Corrigendum to “Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations”	14
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	14

Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	12
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	11
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	11
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	11
Macrosecuritisation failure and technological lock-in: lessons from the history of the bomb	11
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	11
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	11
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	10
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	10
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	10
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	10
The politics of international solidarity	10
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	10
Corrigendum to “Concept formation in historical International Relations”	9
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	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	8
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	7
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	7
Methods of economic statecraft: A typology and an agenda for research	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	7
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	7
A Westphalia for every weather	7
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	6
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
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	5
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	5
The good and the gold: moral frameworks in the practice of diplomatic aesthetics	5
With or without you: how junior allies balance security and autonomy	5
Platform rule: Facebook, corporate power, and networked publics	5
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	5
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	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
Summitry as the social international: performance, audience, and vicarious identification	4
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	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
Russia and the prestige of multipolarity	4

Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	4
Measurement = generative: bridging IR’s epistemological divides with quantum mechanics’ measurement apparatus	4
A blessing or a curse? The role of money in shaping international health governance	4
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	4
‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism	4
History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility	4
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	3
Hydroponics and geopolitics: soilless farming and visions of state power, c.1936–1972	3
Stretching concepts at the cowshed: Towards relational, planetary, multispecies politics	3
Conceptualising autocracy promotion as commercialisation: marketising narratives and Chinese responses to central Asian protests	3
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	3
Myanmar’s redemptive revolution: constituent power and the struggle for sovereignty in the Nwe Oo (Spring) Revolution	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	3
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	3
Let’s not argue: diplomatic legal talk and the issues of abortion and same-sex partnerships	3
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	3
The Ukrainian meme machine: digital diplomacy and ‘quantum humour’	3
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	3
Explaining indeterminacy: Conflicting path dependencies and the reform of the World Food Programme	3
Activating archives for the practice turn in International Relations	3
The international dynamics of counter-peace	3
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: cross-national survey and elite cues experiment in NATO countries	3