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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy	37
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	26
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	25
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	25
Exploring the populist ‘mind’: Anxiety, fantasy, and everyday populism	24
Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues	24
Alcohol policy, multi-level governance and corporate political strategy: The campaign for Scotland’s minimum unit pricing in Edinburgh, London and Brussels	17
Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies	17
Introduction to special issue: The study of populism in international relations	16
‘Guided by the science’: (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis	15
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time	14
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	13
Beyond the core: Do ethnic parties ‘reach out’ in power-sharing systems?	12
Anti-populism during the Yellow Vest protests: From combatting the Rassemblement National to dealing with street populists	12
Shaping institutional overlap: NATO’s responses to EU security and defence initiatives since 2014	10
Antisemitism in the global populist international	10
From the ancient Silk Road to the belt and road initiative: Narratives, signalling and trust-building	10
The value of ‘between-election’ political participation: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to political elites?	10
Women’s voices in a deliberative assembly: An analysis of gender rates of participation in Ireland’s Convention on the Constitution 2012–2014	9
China’s foreign and security policy institutions and decision-making under Xi Jinping	9
Building an authoritarian regime: Strategies for autocratisation and resistance in Belarus and Slovakia	8
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	8
Personalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe	8
Brexit’s implications for EU-NATO cooperation: Transatlantic bridge no more?	8
Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy	8

‘Breakthrough’ political science: Multi-level governance – Reconceptualising Europe’s modernised polity	8
‘To the surprise of absolutely no one’: Gendered political leadership change in Northern Ireland	7
Taking one for the team: Partisan alignment and planning outcomes in England	7
Emotional labour and occupational wellbeing in political office	7
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	7
The West, Russia and European security: Still the long peace?	6
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	6
Introduction: A Xi change in policy?	6
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	6
‘It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’: A governmentality approach to Prevent in primary education	6
‘Russia isn’t a country of Putins!’: How RT bridged the credibility gap in Russian public diplomacy during the 2018 FIFA World Cup	6
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	6
How a lack of truthfulness can undermine democratic representation: The case of post-referendum Brexit discourses	6
Network resilience and EU fisheries policy engagement in third countries: Lessons for post-Brexit governance	6
Mediating power? Delegation, pooling and leadership selection at international organisations	6
The Prevent Duty in UK higher education: Insights from freedom of information requests	5
Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries	5
Editorial: British political studies and the politics of global challenges	5
Humorous parodies of popular culture as strategy in Boris Johnson’s populist communication	5
The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	5
Instrumentalising sovereignty claims in British pro- and anti-Brexit mobilisations	5
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	5
‘You’re a populist! No, you are a populist!’: The rhetorical analysis of a popular insult in the United Kingdom, 1970–2018	5
Public opinion, political partisanship and the Votes-at-16 debate in the United Kingdom	5
‘Where’s the money coming from?’ Manifesto costings and the politics of fiscal credibility in UK general elections, 1955–2019	5
Cross-segmental parties in consociational systems: Downplaying prowess to access power in Northern Ireland	5
Promoting international labour standards: The ILO and national labour regulations	5