OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 5. 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
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	13
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
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