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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage	30
The swing states dilemma in US alliance politics	23
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century	18
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states	16
Beyond the pendulum: situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School	12
The study of international society after Watson	12
A secretary and a reluctant general	11
Introduction: explaining the far-right over the longue durée through capital, race and space	10
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school	10
Organizing nuclear policies in Europe: of bricoleur plurality, architect absence, and spoiler disruption	9
Not a solution but a struggle: anticolonial connectivity and steadfastness against replacement	9
A shift in (a)symmetry, not gravity: the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe in transatlantic relations	9
Rethinking remote warfare	9
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)	8
Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect	8
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty	8
The politics of military deployments: contestation of foreign and security policy in the Netherlands	8
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy	8
Regional powers, global aspirations: lessons from India and Iran	8
Not Just hydrocarbons: Japan’s multifaceted foreign policy approaches towards the GCC states	7
Turkey–Iran affairs since the Arab uprisings: contending ‘strategic depths’ and Turkey’s ambiguous ‘strategic autonomy’	7
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations	7
Forward to the 1980s: US strategic trade in the world order	7
Governmentality in the liberal international order: the responsibilization of small states	7
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality	7

Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do	7
Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism	6
From mandate to actor: the case of the International Law Commission	6
International law is dead, long live international law: the state practice of drone strikes	6
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups	5
The climatization of global politics: introduction to the special issue	5
Assessing NATO’s cohesion: methods and implications	5
Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging	5
The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact	5
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China	5
Why foreign military interventions prolong civil wars: lessons from Yemen	5
Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China	5
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments	5
Foreign aid, soft power, and domestic government legitimacy: experimental evidence from South Korean aid to Indonesia	5
Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance	5
Description as the basis for conceptualization and inquiry: studying perceptions and practices of citizenship in Tanzania and Kenya	4
Men on top: sexual economy of bacha bazi in Afghanistan	4
The role of doctors in torture: from middle age to Abu Ghraib	4
Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus	4
The recurrence of terrorism	4
Not so remote drone warfare	4
Transitional justice and small states: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tunisia	4
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy	4
Humanitarian rebels? Rebel governance and international humanitarian engagement	4
Global Kondratiev waves and political transformations in Russia since 1800: a relative deprivation approach	4
Roles and locations in relational hierarchies: imperial role-authority order in Cold War Latin America	4
Correction to: How closely aligned are China and Russia? Measuring strategic cooperation in IR	4
Bridges across regions: the effects of Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation on European security architectures	3
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure	3
Unequal justice under law	3
The paradox of ontological security in far-right narratives and the securitization of identified alterities: the cases of Spain and Italy	3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy	3
Race in IR: toward empirical study	3
Between role adaptation and contestation: the UK’s status as a nuclear weapon state after Brexit	3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger	3
Archive as land: toward a land-based archival methodology with Lynette Hiʻilani Cruz and Emilia Kandagawa	3
Unsettling settler colonialism: anticolonialism with and against postcolonialism	3
Engineering global governance in the Kofi Annan era and today	3
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	3
From fiscal-military state to laissez-faire science: liberal government and the nineteenth-century market of scientific activity	3
EU-Ukraine “deep” trade agenda: the effectiveness and impact perspectives	3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu	3
A humane analysis of a violent liberal international order	3
‘Claim no easy victories:’ on the political and ideational content of liberation	3
Ukraine, the de-targetization of EU sanctions, and the rise of the European commission as architect of EU foreign policy	3
Phenomenon and experience: searching for the civilian in an age of remote warfare	3
Light footprint—heavy destabilising impact in Niger: why the Western understanding of remote warfare needs to be reconsidered	3
The girl powering of global politics	2
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China	2
AI-enabled remote warfare: sustaining the western Warfare paradigm?	2

Locating the Quad: informality, institutional flexibility, and future alignment in the Indo-Pacific	2
Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: securitization through association	2
Special issue on ‘Shifting Borders of European (In)Securities: Human Security, Border (In)Security and Mobility in Security’	2
From securitization to security complex: climate change, water security and the India–China relations	2
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments	2
When winners win, and losers lose: are altruistic views on immigration always affordable?	2
Historical analogies and general theoretical schemes in the study on contemporary international relations: anachronism or opportunity?	2
Negotiating regional order: regional power influences on nuclear nonproliferation in East Asia	2
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?	2
Debating Britain’s role in the world: from decolonisation to Brexit	2
India as a restorationist state: implications for US-India relations and South Asian politics	2
Redefining the status quo state: collective support, order-maintenance, and self-restraint	2
Networks of order in East Asia: Beyond hegemonic theories of the Liberal International Order	2
The Forgiveness Project: a conversation about peace activism and the transformative power of story	2
Language, race, civilization: What is (and isn’t) Anglo-America?	2
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery	2
Producing the Eurasian Land Bridge: a case study of the geoeconomic contestation in Kazakhstan	2
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order	2
Whose anxiety? What practices? The Paris School and ontological security studies	2
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific	2
Habermasian analysis of reports on Presidential tweets influencing politics in the USA	2
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent	2
Germany’s positioning in the triangular relations with Russia and the US: towards a (new) European security order?	2
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy	2
George W. Bush’s religious-moral convictions and the legacy of PEPFAR	2
Assessing performance of the EU-Armenia cooperation on the rule of law and judicial reform: policy resilience and relevance perspectives	2