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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	49
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	48
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	39
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	38
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	30
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	28
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	27
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	22
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	21
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	20
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	19
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	19
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	18
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	18
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	18
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	18
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	17
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
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	15
Theorising global IR through regional peripheries: Southeast Asia between civilisations, empires and great powers	15
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of COVID-19	15
Corrigendum to “Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations”	14
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	14
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	14

Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	14
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	14
Macrosecuritisation failure and technological lock-in: lessons from the history of the bomb	13
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	13
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	13
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	12
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	12
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	11
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	11
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	10
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	10
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	10
The politics of international solidarity	10
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	10
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	9
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	9
Corrigendum to “Concept formation in historical International Relations”	9
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	9
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Methods of economic statecraft: A typology and an agenda for research	9
A Westphalia for every weather	8
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	8
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	8
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	8
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	7
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	7
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	7
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	7
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	7
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	7