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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	33
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	28
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	27
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	26
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	22
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	22
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	20
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	20
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	18
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	15
Corrigendum	14
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	14
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	14
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	13
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	12
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	11
The turn to turns in International Relations	11
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	10
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	10
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	10
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	10
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	10
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	9
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	9
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	9

Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	9
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	9
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	9
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	9
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	9
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	8
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	8
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	8
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	8
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	8
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	7
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	7
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
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
Editorial	6
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6
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
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	5
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	5
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	5
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	5
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	5
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	5
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	5
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	5
Summitry as the social international: performance, audience, and vicarious identification	4
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
Protect and punish: norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities	4
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	4
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	4
Mission (im)possible? UN military peacekeeping operations in civil wars	4
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	4
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	4
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	4
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	4
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	4
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	4

The geopolitics of passive revolution and the ghost of Malthus in the American Century	3
Populism and foreign aid	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
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
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy	3
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	3
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: cross-national survey and elite cues experiment in NATO countries	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
December 2021 issue: ‘Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors’	3
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	2
A substantive approach to peace: rebel group issues and the durability of peace agreements	2
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	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
Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion	2
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	2
Informal state influence in international organizations: examining the link between executive head nationality and earmarked funding	2
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	2
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	2
Women against Putin: gendered security threats and female leaders	2
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	2
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners	2
International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right	2
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	2