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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Of nomads and khanates: heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia	39
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	28
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	26
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	25
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	24
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	20
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	20
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	19
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	19
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance	18
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping	18
Ultimatums, bargaining, and the duty to preserve alternatives to war	16
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	15
Dispute inflation	14
A post-Hegelian theory of human rights: beyond recognition and the state	14
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	13
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	12
Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia	11
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	10
Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?	10
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	9
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	9
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	8
Why norms rarely die	8
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	8

Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century	8
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	8
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	7
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	7
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	7
Time, the state system and the double chronopolitics of managing ‘migrants’: implications of the Windrush scandal	7
When do member state withdrawals lead to the death of international organizations?	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	6
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	6
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	6
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	6
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	6
Infrastructure finance, late development, and China’s reshaping of international credit governance	5
Corrigendum	5
Political regimes and foreign investment in poor countries: Insights from most similar African cases	5
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	5
Corrigendum. . .	5
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	5
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	5
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali	5
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	5