OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Returning to the roots of ontological security: insights from the existentialist anxiety literature	55
Institutional design for a post-liberal order: why some international organizations live longer than others	50
What kills international organisations? When and why international organisations terminate	33
The postcolonial migration state	33
“The persistent myth of lost hegemony,” revisited: structural power as a complex network phenomenon	32
Reflexive discourse analysis: A methodology for the practice of reflexivity	29
Rebel governance in de facto states	27
The organizational ecology of global governance	23
Conceptualizing and assessing norm strength in International Relations	23
Gendering the practice turn in diplomacy	21
Wargaming for International Relations research	21
Rethinking leadership: understanding the roles of the US and China in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement	21
The things they carry: Victims’ documentation of forced disappearance in Colombia and Sri Lanka	19
How to make elite experiments work in International Relations	18
Rethinking causal explanation in interpretive international studies	17
A ritual approach to deterrence: I am, therefore I deter	16
Infrastructure finance, late development, and China’s reshaping of international credit governance	16
Trickstery: pluralising stigma in international society	15
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	15
How foreign pressure affects mass mobilization in favor of authoritarian regimes	14
Civil war recurrence and postwar violence: Toward an integrated research agenda	14
The de-institutionalisation of power beyond the state	13
Power and International Relations: a temporal view	13
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court	12
Populism and foreign aid	11

Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war	11
Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states	11
An international hierarchy of science: conquest, cooperation, and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty System	10
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	10
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	9
Bringing Morgenthau’s ethics in: pluralism, incommensurability and the turn from fragmentation to dialogue in IR	9
Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode	9
The national accounting paradox: how statistical norms corrode international economic data	9
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	9
The ontological threat of foreign fighters	8
State recognition and dynamic sovereignty	8
Realist avenues to global International Relations	8
Enfolding wholes in parts: quantum holography and International Relations	8
Explaining elite perceptions of legitimacy in global governance	8
Grist to the mill of subversion: strikes and coups in counterinsurgencies	8
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	8
Violent International Relations	8
Blended Diplomacy: The Entanglement and Contestation of Digital Technologies in Everyday Diplomatic Practice	8
Domestic courts, transnational law, and international order	7
Company-states and the creation of the global international system	7
Why norms rarely die	7