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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	69
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	42
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	40
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	39
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	33
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	28
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	24
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	20
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	18
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	15
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	14
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	14
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	14
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	13
War and peace in the age of AI	13
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	12
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	11
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	11
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	11
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	10
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	10
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	10

Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	10
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	9
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	9
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	8
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	8
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	8
Values and multilateralism in world politics	8
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	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
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	6
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	6
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	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
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	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
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	5
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	5
Zeitenwende à la française : Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5
The fall and rise of sovereignty	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	5
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	5
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	5
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
Antisemitism in the global populist international	4
How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration	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
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	3
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	3
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	3
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	3

Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	3
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	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
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	3
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	3
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	3
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	3
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	3
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	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
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and Inte	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 regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	2
Political relationship marketing and loyalty intentions of voters: Empirical study of the major political parties in Ghana	2
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	2
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
Pre-electoral coalitions and cabinet stability in presidential systems	2
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	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
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	2
Teaching and learning in Brussels: Sinn Féin’s strategic ‘venue shopping’ approach in the European Parliament	2
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	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
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	2
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	2
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	2