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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The suspect citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, prevent, and the British Muslim experience	53
(Il)Liberal peace? P5 approaches to conflict management and resolution	39
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	25
Democratisation after empire: Pre-independence extensions of political rights	21
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	21
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	19
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	18
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	17
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	17
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	15
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	15
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	15
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	15
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	14
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	13
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	13
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	12
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	12
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	12
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	12
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	12
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	11
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	11
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	11
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	11

Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	11
Global models and post-Brexit discourses: ‘Singapore on Thames’ or ‘Nordic Scotland’?	11
War and peace in the age of AI	11
External balancing short of alliances? Militarised-cooperative buck-passing in the China–Russia and the US–India military partnerships	11
New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework	10
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	10
No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer	10
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	9
Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics	9
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	8
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	8
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	8
Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community	8
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	7
Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros	7
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	7
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK	7
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	7
Values and multilateralism in world politics	7
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
‘ Asset-based welfare ’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	7
Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea	6
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	6
The fall and rise of sovereignty	6
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
Glocalized norm interpretations: Explaining the emergence of India’s national climate policy approach	6
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	6
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	6
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	6
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	6
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
What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	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
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	5
Zeitenwende à la française : Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	5
ChatGPT as a security threat: US–China security dilemma in the generative AI race	5
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	5
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	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
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	4
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	4
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	4
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	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
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	4
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	4
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence	4
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	4
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	3
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	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
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
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	3
Dog-whistling and democracy	3
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	3
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	3
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
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	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
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	2
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare	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
The politics of abstentionism: Comparing Sinn Féin’s Westminster abstentionism to the Basque Nationalist Left’s engagement with the Spanish Parliament, 1979–2025	2
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	2
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	2
“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis	2
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	2
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Jour	2
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2