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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Democratisation after empire: Pre-independence extensions of political rights	33
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	27
The suspect citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, prevent, and the British Muslim experience	22
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	21
(Il)Liberal peace? P5 approaches to conflict management and resolution	21
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	19
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	19
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	19
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	18
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	18
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	17
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	16
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	15
From having to doing vernacular security: Below-the-line commentary on the politics of extremism	15
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	15
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	14
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	14
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	14
War and peace in the age of AI	13
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	13
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	13
Global models and post-Brexit discourses: ‘Singapore on Thames’ or ‘Nordic Scotland’?	13
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	13
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	13
New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework	12

Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	11
External balancing short of alliances? Militarised-cooperative buck-passing in the China–Russia and the US–India military partnerships	11
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	11
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	10
No more Mr nice guy? A leadership trait analysis of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer	10
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	10
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	10
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	10
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	10
Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics	9
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	9
Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community	9
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	9
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	9
Values and multilateralism in world politics	9
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	8
Time well spent? A population study of corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom	8
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	8
‘ Asset-based welfare ’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	8
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	8
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	8
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	8
Politicising safety and racialised and gendered criminalisation: Political agenda-setting and the case of Albanian asylum-seekers in the UK	7
Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros	7
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	7
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	7
Perceptions of government performance and collective trauma: The case of the 2023 Turkish earthquakes	7
Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea	7
Terminating to Renegotiate? Strategic exit and the case of international investment agreements	7
The fall and rise of sovereignty	7
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	7
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	7
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	7
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	6
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	6
Glocalized norm interpretations: Explaining the emergence of India’s national climate policy approach	6
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches	5
Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy	5
Grasping the opportunity for small state leadership: Estonia’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	5
Zeitenwende à la française : Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	5
ChatGPT as a security threat: US–China security dilemma in the generative AI race	5
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	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
How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration	5
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	4
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	4
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	4
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	4
Corrigendum to ‘Conspiracy beliefs and populist radical right attitudes: A comparative European analysis’	4
Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press	4
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	4
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	4
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	4
The European Union’s foreign policy rhetoric at the United Nations General Assembly	4
Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence	4
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	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
Grievance forums in autocracies: Surrogates for protest or instruments of control?	3
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	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	3
Dog-whistling and democracy	3
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	3
Multicultural nationalism and the White English working class: Minorities within the majority?	3
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	3
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	3
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	3
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	3
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
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	3
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	3
Invoking Churchill: Zelenskyy’s use of myth diplomacy in the United Kingdom	2
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	2
Keep your friends close, and your foes closer: State-centred analysis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s enlargement	2
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Jour	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
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	2
The misogynist incel in the news: Analysing representations of gender-based violence in Britain	2
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	2
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy	2
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	2
An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland	2
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis	2
The gradual return of balance of power politics: Emerging bipolarity, China’s escalated balancing, and China–US rivalry	2
Post-truth politics as discursive violence: Online abuse, the public sphere and the figure of ‘the expert’	2
Does populism challenge the status quo? Understanding transgression and subversion in contemporary politics	2
Understanding the relationship between external states and rebels: A typology	2
Political relationship marketing and loyalty intentions of voters: Empirical study of the major political parties in Ghana	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
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare	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
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	2