OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Politics & International Relations is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	58
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	36
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	35
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	34
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	32
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	25
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	22
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	18
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
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	12
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	12
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	12
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	11
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	11
War and peace in the age of AI	10
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	10
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	10
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	10
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	9
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
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	8
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	8
A tale of two Europes: How conflating the European Court of Human Rights with the European Union exacerbates Euroscepticism	8
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	8
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
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	7
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	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
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
Values and multilateralism in world politics	7
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	7
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	7
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	6
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	6
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
Statecraft and incremental change: Explaining the success of pension reforms in the United Kingdom	5
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	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
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5
The fall and rise of sovereignty	5
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	5
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5