OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	40
(Il)Liberal peace? P5 approaches to conflict management and resolution	27
The suspect citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, prevent, and the British Muslim experience	24
Democratisation after empire: Pre-independence extensions of political rights	22
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	19
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	18
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	18
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	17
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	17
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	16
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	16
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	16
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	15
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	13
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	13
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	13
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	13
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	13
War and peace in the age of AI	12
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	12
Global models and post-Brexit discourses: ‘Singapore on Thames’ or ‘Nordic Scotland’?	12
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	12
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	12
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	11

New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework	11
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	11
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	11
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	10
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	10
External balancing short of alliances? Militarised-cooperative buck-passing in the China–Russia and the US–India military partnerships	10
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	9
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	9
Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community	9
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer	9
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	9
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	8
Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics	8
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	8
Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros	7
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
‘ Asset-based welfare ’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	7
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
Values and multilateralism in world politics	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	6
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	6
Perceptions of government performance and collective trauma: The case of the 2023 Turkish earthquakes	6
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Glocalized norm interpretations: Explaining the emergence of India’s national climate policy approach	6
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	6
Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea	6
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK	6
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	6
The fall and rise of sovereignty	6
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	5
Zeitenwende à la française : Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	5
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches	5
The European Union’s foreign policy rhetoric at the United Nations General Assembly	4
ChatGPT as a security threat: US–China security dilemma in the generative AI race	4
Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy	4
How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration	4

Corrigendum to ‘Conspiracy beliefs and populist radical right attitudes: A comparative European analysis’	4
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	4
Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence	4
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	4
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	4
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	4
Grasping the opportunity for small state leadership: Estonia’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	4
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	4
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	4
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	4
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	4
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	4
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	3
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	3
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	3
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	3
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	3
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	3
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	3
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	3
Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press	3
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	3
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
Dog-whistling and democracy	3
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	3
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	2
Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare	2
Grievance forums in autocracies: Surrogates for protest or instruments of control?	2
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
The politics of abstentionism: Comparing Sinn Féin’s Westminster abstentionism to the Basque Nationalist Left’s engagement with the Spanish Parliament, 1979–2025	2
An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland	2
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	2
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status	2
Multicultural nationalism and the White English working class: Minorities within the majority?	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Jour	2
“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis	2
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	2
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations: A critical research agenda for the next 25 years	2
Beyond blunders: British political studies and successful public policy	2
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	2