OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Relations and Development is 5. 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
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
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	10
Norwegian and Ukrainian energy futures: exploring the role of national identity in sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security	9
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
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	8
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
Memory politics and the study of crises in International Relations: insights from Ukraine and Lithuania	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