OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Politics 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage	33
The swing states dilemma in US alliance politics	30
A secretary and a reluctant general	22
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school	19
Introduction: explaining the far-right over the longue durée through capital, race and space	15
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption	12
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations	12
Not a solution but a struggle: anticolonial connectivity and steadfastness against replacement	12
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran	10
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy	10
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty	10
The politics of military deployments: contestation of foreign and security policy in the Netherlands	9
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect	9
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations	8
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality	8
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states	8
Governmentality in the liberal international order: the responsibilization of small states	8
Not Just hydrocarbons: Japan’s multifaceted foreign policy approaches towards the GCC states	8
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do	8
Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism	7
Forward to the 1980s: US strategic trade in the world order	7
The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue	7
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission	7
International law is dead, long live international law: the state practice of drone strikes	7
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’	7

The study of international society after Watson	7
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China	6
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact	6
Foreign aid, soft power, and domestic government legitimacy: experimental evidence from South Korean aid to Indonesia	6
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments	6
Why foreign military interventions prolong civil wars: lessons from Yemen	6
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications	6
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging	5
Humanitarian rebels? Rebel governance and international humanitarian engagement	5
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan	5
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China	5
Description as the basis for conceptualization and inquiry: studying perceptions and practices of citizenship in Tanzania and Kenya	5
The recurrence of terrorism	5
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance	5
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups	5
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach	5
Rethinking remote warfare	4
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy	4
Transitional justice and small states: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tunisia	4
Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus	4
Normalizing the exception: prejudice and discriminations in detention and extraordinary reception centres in Italy	4
The role of doctors in torture: from middle age to Abu Ghraib	4
Light footprint—heavy destabilising impact in Niger: why the Western understanding of remote warfare needs to be reconsidered	4
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America	4
Not so remote drone warfare	4
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century	4
Correction to: How closely aligned are China and Russia? Measuring strategic cooperation in IR	4
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives	3
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School	3
Phenomenon and experience: searching for the civilian in an age of remote warfare	3
Between role adaptation and contestation: the UK’s status as a nuclear weapon state after Brexit	3
A humane analysis of a violent liberal international order	3
Correction to: Let sleeping bears lie: an analysis of the factors behind Indonesia’s response to the Russo–Ukrainian war and its implications for the Indo‑Pacific region	3
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa	3
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific	3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy	3
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)	3
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity	3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu	3
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science	3
IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR	3
Unequal justice under law	3
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	3
Race in IR: toward empirical study	3
Conspiratorial imaginaries of the right: a commentary on capital, race and space by Richard Saull	3
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure	3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger	3
Negotiating regional order: regional power influences on nuclear nonproliferation in East Asia	2
Networks of order in East Asia: Beyond hegemonic theories of the Liberal International Order	2
Introduction: Narendra Modi and India’s foreign policy	2

Writing for justice, reading for absence	2
The girl powering of global politics	2
Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy	2
Whose anxiety? What practices? The Paris School and ontological security studies	2
The paradox of ontological security in far-right narratives and the securitization of identified alterities: the cases of Spain and Italy	2
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?	2
When winners win, and losers lose: are altruistic views on immigration always affordable?	2
Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control	2
Coronavirus diplomacy: Chinese medical assistance and its diplomatic implications	2
Debating Britain’s role in the world: from decolonisation to Brexit	2
Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: securitization through association	2
Don’t let a good crisis go to waste: China’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	2
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation	2
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China	2
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures	2
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics	2
Unsettling settler colonialism: anticolonialism with and against postcolonialism	2
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent	2
Habermasian analysis of reports on Presidential tweets influencing politics in the USA	2
Knowledge as healing: on Laura shepherd’s the self and other stories	2
Sanctioned terror: economic sanctions and more effective terrorism	2
Public diplomacy and regional leadership struggles: the case of Saudi Arabia	2
Love, hope, and hopelessness	2
Historical analogies and general theoretical schemes in the study on contemporary international relations: anachronism or opportunity?	2
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today	2
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order	2
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy	2
AI-enabled remote warfare: sustaining the western Warfare paradigm?	2