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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the foreign policies of populist governments: (Latin) America First	27
Colonial roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its effects on the global refugee regime	22
[Our] age of anxiety: existentialism and the current state of international relations	21
Whose legitimacy beliefs count? Targeted audiences in global governance legitimation processes	14
The embodied state: why and how physical security matters for ontological security	14
Conspiracy theories, right-wing populism and foreign policy: the case of the Alternative for Germany	11
Uses of ‘the East’ in international studies: provincialising IR from Central and Eastern Europe	9
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	9
Why is anxiety’s positive potential so rarely realised? Creativity and change in international politics	9
Russian space policy and identity: visionary or reactionary?	8
Anxiety, subjectivity and the possibility of emancipatory politics	8
Norwegian and Ukrainian energy futures: exploring the role of national identity in sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security	8
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	7
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	7
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	7
Balkan subjects in intervention literature: the politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction	7
Memory politics and the study of crises in International Relations: insights from Ukraine and Lithuania	7
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	6
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	6
The stigmatisation of Central Europe via (failed) socialisation narrative	6
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	5
Technology, small states and the legitimacy of digital development: combatting de-risking through blockchain-based re-risking?	5
Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way	5
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	5
Greening the Chinese Leviathan: China’s renewable energy governance as a source of soft power	4

Anxiety and the biographical Gestalt of political leaders	4
International politics as global politics from below: Pope Francis on global politics	4
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	4
Autonomy and international organisations	4
State capture and development: a conceptual framework	4
The effects of IMF loan conditions on poverty in the developing world	4
African exceptions: democratic development in small island states	4
Representation as practice: agency and relationality in transnational civil society	4
Governing development: global performance indicators and gender policy change in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
The scare behind energy security: four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance	4
Cooperative counter-hegemony, interregionalism and ‘diminished multilateralism’: the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)	4
Stimmung and ontological security: anxiety, euphoria, and emerging political subjectivities during the 2015 ‘border opening’ in Germany	4
Captive minds: the function and agency of Eastern Europe in International Security Studies	4
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	3
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	3
Safe assemblages: thinking infrastructures beyond circulation in the times of SARS-CoV2	3
Urbanising norms? Cities as local amplifiers in global norm dynamics on HIV/AIDS policies	3
Foreign aid donors, domestic actors, and human rights violations: the politics and diplomacy of opposing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act	3
Beyond ‘economic nationalism’: towards a new research agenda for the study of nationalism in political economy	3
The “I” in BRICS: leadership traits of Indian prime ministers and India's role adaptation to rising status in world politics	3
Explaining Brazil as a rising state, 2003‒2014: the role of policy diffusion as an international regulatory instrument	3
Exploring neoliberal resilience: the transnational politics of austerity in Czechia	3
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	3
Beyond liberal governance? Resilience as a field of transition	3
Resistance as resilience: negotiating gendered contours in conflict and trauma	3
Flexible democratic conditionality? The role of democracy and human rights adherence in NATO enlargement decisions	3
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	2
Welfare and world money: the domestic foundations of currency internationalisation	2
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	2
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	2
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety	2
What my body taught me about being a scholar of Ukraine and from Ukraine in times of Russia’s war of aggression	2
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	2
International relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states	2
Everyday life in the face of conflict: Sumud as a spatial quotidian practice in Palestine	2
Radicalising resilience: mothering, solidarity, and interdependence among women survivors of war	2
Responsibility not to be silent: Academic knowledge production about the war against Ukraine and knowledge diplomacy	2
When mass atrocities are silenced: Germany and the cases of Yemen, South Sudan, and Myanmar	2
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	2
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide: inescapable dread in the 2020s	2
The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday: An autoethnographic narrative	2
Variegated forms of embeddedness: home-grown neoliberal authoritarianism in Tunisia under Ben Ali	2
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	2
Global informalism and the G20	2
The illusion of autonomy and new others: role conflict and Hungarian foreign policy after 2010	2
Treasures in the backyard: how a peaceful region can contribute to the study of international conflicts	2
How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war	2
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	2
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	2