OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	34
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	31
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	30
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	29
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	27
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	24
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	23
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	18
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	15
Corrigendum	14
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	14
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	13
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	13
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	12
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	12
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	11
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	11
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	11
The turn to turns in International Relations	11
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	11
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	11
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	10
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	10
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	10
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	9

Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	9
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	9
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	9
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	9
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	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	9
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	9
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	8
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	8
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	8
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	7
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	7
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	6
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	6
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6