OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Relations and Development 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders	33
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	27
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	25
London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties	22
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	16
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	15
Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy	15
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	14
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	11
African exceptions: democratic development in small island states	11
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	10
Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan	10
The stigmatisation of Central Europe via (failed) socialisation narrative	10
Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’	10
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council: expert cliques, recognition cycles, and the emergence of new practice	10
The Schengen Area as a fair-weather project? A discursive analysis of solidarity	10
Persistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
Translating global norms on crime to schools: analysing textbook lessons on the trafficking of humans in the United States, Nigeria and Germany	9
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	9
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda	9
The illusion of autonomy and new others: role conflict and Hungarian foreign policy after 2010	9
International relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states	9
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	8

Czechs and Germans in the twenty years’ crisis: Mackinder, Carr and Wiskemann on Central and Eastern Europe after the peace	8
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	8
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	7
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	7
Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	6
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	6
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	6
Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	6
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	6
Polish society’s humanitarian uprising: ad-hoc, needs-based partnerships supporting Ukraine	6
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety	6
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	6
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	6
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	6
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	5
‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans	5
Uses of ‘the East’ in international studies: provincialising IR from Central and Eastern Europe	5
Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South	5
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	5
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	5
In ‘crisis’ we trust? On (un)intentional knowledge distortion and the exigency of terminological clarity in academic and political discourses on Russia’s war against Ukraine	5
Technocracy that fails: a Czech perspective on the EU	4
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism	4
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	4
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide: inescapable dread in the 2020s	4
Why is anxiety’s positive potential so rarely realised? Creativity and change in international politics	4
Captive minds: the function and agency of Eastern Europe in International Security Studies	4
Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres	4
Correction to: Explaining Brazil as a rising state, 2003‒2014: the role of policy diffusion as an international regulatory instrument	4
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	4
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	4
A healthy peace: public good provision and post-civil war peace stability	3
Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism	3
Regionalism and regional organisations: exploring the dynamics of institutional formation and change in Latin America	3
Anxiety and the biographical Gestalt of political leaders	3
Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity	3
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	3
Do international relations scholars not care about Central and Eastern Europe or do they just take the region for granted? A conclusion to the special issue	3
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio	3
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	2
Mothers’ grief and love in war and resistance: visuals, aesthetics and storytelling	2
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Balkan subjects in intervention literature: the politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction	2
Resistance as resilience: negotiating gendered contours in conflict and trauma	2
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	2
Memory politics and the study of crises in International Relations: insights from Ukraine and Lithuania	2
The consolidation dilemma in European order transformation: theorising endogenous pathways to the contestation of liberalism	2
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
Forum-shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime complex	2
How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war	2