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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	61
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	38
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	38
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	36
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	33
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	30
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	26
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	22
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	19
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	16
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	13
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	13
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	13
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
War and peace in the age of AI	12
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	11
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	11
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	11
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	10
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	10
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	9
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	9
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9

Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	9
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	9
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	9
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	8
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	8
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	8
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	8
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	7
A tale of two Europes: How conflating the European Court of Human Rights with the European Union exacerbates Euroscepticism	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
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
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	7
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	6
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	6
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	6
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	6
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	5
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	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
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	5
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	5
The fall and rise of sovereignty	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Statecraft and incremental change: Explaining the success of pension reforms in the United Kingdom	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	4
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	4
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	4
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	4
Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy	4
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	4
Grasping the opportunity for small state leadership: Estonia’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	3
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	3
The paradox of poor representation: How voter–party incongruence curbs affective polarisation	3

‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	3
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	3
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	3
Antisemitism in the global populist international	3
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	3
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	3
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	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
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	2
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	2
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	2
Pre-electoral coalitions and cabinet stability in presidential systems	2
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	2
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	2
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	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 language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	2
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	2
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	2
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	2
“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis	2
Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	2
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	2
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	2
Teaching and learning in Brussels: Sinn Féin’s strategic ‘venue shopping’ approach in the European Parliament	2