OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mediterranean Politics is 2. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Small is beautiful but not trendy: Understanding the allure of big hydraulic works in the Euphrates-Tigris and Nile waterscapes	25
The Arab uprisings and the return of repression	24
The formulation and implementation of populist foreign policy: Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean	19
Empowering a fragmented diaspora: Turkish immigrant organizations’ perceptions of and responses to Turkey’s diaspora engagement policy	14
Which protests count? Coverage bias in Middle East event datasets	10
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean	9
Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia: Appraising outsider eclecticism	9
Greece’s response to the European refugee crisis: A tale of two securitizations	8
EU democracy projection in the Southern Mediterranean: A practice analysis	7
EU democracy projection in Tunisia: The case of civil society consultations	7
Jordan’s economic, security and political challenges under Covid-19	7
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey	7
Go local, go global: Studying popular protests in the MENA post-2011	7
Iran’s soft power in Syria after the Syrian civil war	7
MENA political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings: Facing the facts on tremulous grounds	6
Disaggregating Jordan’s Syrian refugee response: The ‘Many Hands’ of the Jordanian state	6
The Egyptian LGBT’s transnational cyber-advocacy in a restrictive context	6
Foreign sponsorship of pro-government militias fighting Syria’s insurgency: Whither proxy wars?	6
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona Process 25 years after	6
Islamist parties, intraparty organizational dynamics, and moderation as strategic behaviour	5
Half-Statelessness and Hannah Arendt’s Citizenship Model: The Case of Palestinian Citizens of Israel	5
Gender equality in Tunisia: The EU’s tripartite dialogue	5
Fear of surveillance: Examining Turkish social media users’ perception of surveillance and willingness to express opinions on social media	5
The Middle East in global modernity: Analytic polycentrism, historic entanglements and a rejuvenated area studies debate	4
The EU and LGBTI activism in the MENA – The case of Lebanon	4

Using Content Analysis to Study Political Texts: Notes on Turkish Parliamentary Debates	4
China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition?	4
Assessing dynamics of EU democracy projection through expert communities in the Mediterranean region	3
Supporting democratic participation beyond democracy promotion? EU Relations with Moroccan and Tunisian civil society in the areas of trade and anti-corruption	3
The continuation of criminalization by other means: the role of judicial agency in the Italian policing of humanitarian assistance at sea	3
Taking stock of MENA political science after the uprisings	3
The 2021 Portuguese Presidential Elections under extraordinary circumstances: Covid-19 and the rise of the radical right in Portugal	3
The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition	3
Exploring the Voices of the Rif Hirak activism: The struggle for democracy in Morocco	3
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization	3
Resistance and Military Defection in Turkey	3
Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco	3
How did Tunisians react to Ennahdha’s 2016 reforms? Evidence from a survey experiment	3
Tracking terrorism and counter-terrorism: Introducing the Turkey terrorism incidents database	3
China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism	3
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia	3
Observing (the debate on) sectarianism: On conceptualizing, grasping and explaining sectarian politics in a new Middle East	3
Clientelism and its discontents: The role of wasta in shaping political attitudes and participation in Jordan	2
China’s infrastructure diplomacy in the Mediterranean region under the Belt And Road Initiative: Challenges ahead?	2
Citizen (dis)engagement on social media: How the Catalan referendum crisis fostered a teflonic social media behaviour	2
Urban resilience and migration governance in Tunisia’s unstable political environment	2
Sport, politics and the struggle over ‘normalization’ in post-Oslo Israel and Palestine	2
The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices	2
The oil factor: Regulatory agency creation in the MENA region	2
Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean	2
Trump sympathy in the Balkans: cross-border populist appeal	2
Role dynamics and trust in France-China coopetition	2
Iranians as real estate purchasers and international students: Transformation of Turkish-Iranian migration corridor	2
China in the Southern Mediterranean: Integrating the Greater Maghreb in the new silk road	2
Alliance politics in the post-2011 Middle East: Advancing theoretical and empirical perspectives	2
Islamist populism? Exploring the MENA region from a comparative and empirical perspective	2
War and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa	2