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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Between longue durée and uncertainty: Japan’s narratives of the Pacific	78
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	35
London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties	21
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	21
Varieties of informal intergovernmental organisations: how differences in design matter for informal governance	20
On the outside looking in? Role location, capability claims, and the EU’s role in the Arctic	19
Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy	19
Changes to the publication model	18
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	18
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	17
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	15
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	14
Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan	14
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council: expert cliques, recognition cycles, and the emergence of new practice	14
Translating global norms on crime to schools: analysing textbook lessons on the trafficking of humans in the United States, Nigeria and Germany	14
Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’	14
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda	13
Conceptualising transnational politicisation in international affairs: the Turkish diaspora in Germany and the politicisation of German–Turkish relations	12
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	12
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	10
Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	9
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
China’s global health governance in Africa before Covid-19: status signalling through conspicuous giving	8
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	7
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	7

AI and academic publishing	6
Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	6
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	6
How to avoid ontological security dilemmas: toward building a policy theory	5
Polish society’s humanitarian uprising: ad-hoc, needs-based partnerships supporting Ukraine	5
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	5
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	5
Strategic narratives beyond the state: the case of Mexico’s feminist foreign policy	4
Knowing Afghanistan: interveners’ knowledge production in the in-between	4
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	4
Accounting for variation in IO crisis responses: focality and temporality	4
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	4
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	4
‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans	4
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	3
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	3
Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity	3
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	3
Narrating commitment, deferring compliance: symbolic temporality in global environmental governance	3
The narration of status in far-right populist foreign policy: the United States of Trump 2.0	3
Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South	3
Emerging patterns of right-wing international populism in Central Eastern Europe and Latin America: let’s fight the globalists!	3
Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres	3
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio	2
Regaining cohesion: a study of discursive preconditions for mobilization in the Russia-Ukraine war	2
Mothers’ grief and love in war and resistance: visuals, aesthetics and storytelling	2
Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM	2
Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism	2
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	2
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	2
Forum-shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime complex	2
What’s ‘rural’ in rural development? Interrogating internationalised visions for the African countryside	2
Techno-functionalism and the varieties of regional resilience in Latin America: comparing the Pacific Alliance and SICA	2
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine	2