OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Politics & International Relations is 6. 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 partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	18
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	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
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	16
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	16
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	16
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	15
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
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
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
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
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	11

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
External balancing short of alliances? Militarised-cooperative buck-passing in the China–Russia and the US–India military partnerships	10
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
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
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
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	8
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
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
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
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
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