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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the foreign policies of populist governments: (Latin) America First	30
Colonial roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its effects on the global refugee regime	28
[Our] age of anxiety: existentialism and the current state of international relations	24
Conspiracy theories, right-wing populism and foreign policy: the case of the Alternative for Germany	19
The embodied state: why and how physical security matters for ontological security	18
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	10
State capture and development: a conceptual framework	10
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	10
Uses of ‘the East’ in international studies: provincialising IR from Central and Eastern Europe	10
Why is anxiety’s positive potential so rarely realised? Creativity and change in international politics	10
Norwegian and Ukrainian energy futures: exploring the role of national identity in sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security	9
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	8
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	8
Anxiety, subjectivity and the possibility of emancipatory politics	8
Memory politics and the study of crises in International Relations: insights from Ukraine and Lithuania	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
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	7
The effects of IMF loan conditions on poverty in the developing world	7
Balkan subjects in intervention literature: the politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction	7
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	6
The stigmatisation of Central Europe via (failed) socialisation narrative	6
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	6
Cooperative counter-hegemony, interregionalism and ‘diminished multilateralism’: the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)	6
Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way	6
The scare behind energy security: four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance	6

The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	6
Welfare and world money: the domestic foundations of currency internationalisation	5
International politics as global politics from below: Pope Francis on global politics	5
Captive minds: the function and agency of Eastern Europe in International Security Studies	5
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	5
Urbanising norms? Cities as local amplifiers in global norm dynamics on HIV/AIDS policies	5
Stimmung and ontological security: anxiety, euphoria, and emerging political subjectivities during the 2015 ‘border opening’ in Germany	5
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	5
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	5
African exceptions: democratic development in small island states	5
Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	5
Autonomy and international organisations	5
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine	4
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety	4
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	4
The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday: An autoethnographic narrative	4
Everyday life in the face of conflict: Sumud as a spatial quotidian practice in Palestine	4
Safe assemblages: thinking infrastructures beyond circulation in the times of SARS-CoV2	4
Exploring neoliberal resilience: the transnational politics of austerity in Czechia	4
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	4
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	4
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
How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war	4
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	4
Governing development: global performance indicators and gender policy change in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Beyond liberal governance? Resilience as a field of transition	3
Radicalising resilience: mothering, solidarity, and interdependence among women survivors of war	3
The illusion of autonomy and new others: role conflict and Hungarian foreign policy after 2010	3
What my body taught me about being a scholar of Ukraine and from Ukraine in times of Russia’s war of aggression	3
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	3
Explaining Brazil as a rising state, 2003‒2014: the role of policy diffusion as an international regulatory instrument	3
Flexible democratic conditionality? The role of democracy and human rights adherence in NATO enlargement decisions	3
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide: inescapable dread in the 2020s	3
Beyond ‘economic nationalism’: towards a new research agenda for the study of nationalism in political economy	3
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	3
Resistance as resilience: negotiating gendered contours in conflict and trauma	3
The “I” in BRICS: leadership traits of Indian prime ministers and India's role adaptation to rising status in world politics	3
Foreign aid donors, domestic actors, and human rights violations: the politics and diplomacy of opposing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act	3
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	2
The spandrels of urban security: extending the formalist turn in security studies	2
When mass atrocities are silenced: Germany and the cases of Yemen, South Sudan, and Myanmar	2
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	2
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	2
How individuals shape informal institutions: Analyzing contending norm promotion in the Global South	2
Global informalism and the G20	2
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	2
Treasures in the backyard: how a peaceful region can contribute to the study of international conflicts	2
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	2
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	2

International relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states	2
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	2
Responsibility not to be silent: Academic knowledge production about the war against Ukraine and knowledge diplomacy	2
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	2
Technocracy that fails: a Czech perspective on the EU	2
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism	2