OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Politics is 3. 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
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage	27
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states	22
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do	20
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics	19
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy	17
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality	16
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China	14
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	13
Grievability and civilian harm in Weaponizing Civilian Protection	12
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security	11
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments	11
Rethinking multilateralism: domestic incentives of multilateral aid	10
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China	10
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order	10
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war	9
Turkey’s Diplomatic Maneuverability in a Multipolar World Order: A system Dynamic Simulation	9
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy	9
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy	8
Regional powers and the politics of scale	8
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland	7
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect	7
From regulatory inertia to strategic vulnerability: a neoclassical realist analysis of Britain’s critical minerals under-balancing	7
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?	7
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?	7
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources	7

Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states	7
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies	6
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia	6
How can individuals determine the success of statecraft?	6
Institutional barriers and pathways to RMB internationalization in a dollar-dominated global financial system	6
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan	6
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations	6
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security	6
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO	6
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-19	6
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war	6
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia	5
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 1961	5
Reconnected normativity: the role of a contesting world society in Arctic science diplomacy	5
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea	5
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom	5
Russia, NATO and the view from the East	5
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth	5
A grand strategy narrative of democratic hope: legitimizing the Biden administration’s democracy versus autocracy framework	5
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society	5
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation	5
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation	5
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine	5
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’	5
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation	5
Forgotten, recovered, forgotten again: counterinsurgency and its intellectual histories	4
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations	4
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups	4
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’	4
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd	4
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus	4
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century	4
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments	4
Washington to Brussels: comparative media coverage of the February 2025 Trump and Zelenskyy meeting in Europe and the U.S. Press	4
Signaling virtue: legitimacy, reputation, and NATO’s strategic communications during the war in Ukraine	4
Reflections: the UK after Brexit	4
Between a rock and a hard place: small states, vulnerabilities and Greek foreign policy	4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control	4
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea	4
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty	4
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy	4
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century	4
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy	4
Authoritarian peace through delegated coercion: the Chechenization model in Russia’s counterinsurgency	4
Gangster diplomacy and the disordering of international society	4
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice	4
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?	4
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)	4
No exit: why U.S. policy on Europe in counterproductive and what to do about it	3
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg	3

Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy	3
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights	3
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status	3
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power	3
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?	3
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan	3
Israel/Palestine: political futures	3
From Kantian friendship to Benthamite partnership: transatlantic relations under Donald Trump	3
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy	3
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society	3
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness	3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu	3
Love, hope, and hopelessness	3
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science	3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger	3
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy	3
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states	3
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine	3
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific	3
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism	3
China’s strategic approach to the Persian gulf: balancing relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia	3