Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis21
Appreciated outsiders: the paradox of positive attitudes towards Armenians in Turkish parliamentary politics18
Forecasting migration pressure in Greece: a hidden Markov model for scenario-based policy planning17
Populist patterns in post-conflict settlement: leadership discursive strategies in the Serbia-Kosovo status dispute15
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy15
Geopolitical continuity? An analysis of the Turkish Straits and Russian ambitions15
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case15
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 197414
Greek parties’ stances on climate change: revisiting Europeanization14
Reinterpreted liberal norms: Türkiye’s anti-Westernism in the Horn of Africa13
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism13
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance13
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova13
From anti-gender discourse to homonegative values: the case of Turkey12
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms12
Theorizing the otherness of Southeastern Europe in British travel narratives: Orientalism, Balkanism or other?11
Opposition’s paradox of victory: electoral success and authoritarian retrenchment in Turkey11
The culturalization of bilateral conditionality: heritage, identity, and EU enlargement in the Western Balkans11
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea10
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections10
Securitization of gender as a modus operandi of populism: anti-gender discourses on the Istanbul Convention in the context of AKP’s illiberal transformation10
Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis9
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma9
A poliheuristic analysis of the Euphrates Shield operation in Syria: towards an extended framework9
Leader’s reaction to exogenous political shocks breaks the path: changes in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership traits after the e-memorandum and AKP closure cases8
Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey8
The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy8
Europeanization and urban transformation in Southeast Europe: introduction7
Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path7
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine7
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe7
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies7
The EU and global climate justice. Normative power caught in normative battles The EU and global climate justice. Normative power caught in normative battles , by Franzi7
Political agency in antagonistic contexts: Turkey and the politics of disaster6
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level6
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship6
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?5
Roma rights in Turkey: De- europeanization as a form of contestation5
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia5
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system5
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections5
Nationalism: A World History5
Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider5
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate4
Characterization of workers’ specific summer holiday practices in the Yugoslav socialist socio-economic context4
Religion, patriarchy and female employment in Turkey: the case of faith-based organizations4
Correction4
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in Northern Cyprus4
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion: a quest for ‘better democracy’?4
Women’s empowerment in Southeast European diplomacy: a comparative analysis of Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece4
Personalization of the electoral system and political parties: lessons from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina4
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study4
Authoritarian consolidation vs. democratic resilience: comparative post-Soviet trajectories of Russia and Ukraine4
Contesting the EU? China’s engagement with Türkiye and the Western Balkans4
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment4
Populism, fear, and the construction of the enemy: a thematic analysis of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 2023 election campaign4
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives4
Macroeconomics of greening Turkish agriculture: a general equilibrium analysis of input rationalization policies4
Securitization and digital diplomacy: Zelenskyy’s ‘security-tweet’ during the Russia-Ukraine war3
Far from the inner sanctum of Europe due to the legacies of the past: the use of analogy in the discourse on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans3
Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’3
Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan3
Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents’ health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece3
Unpacking normative power Europe: European Union’s promotion of climate change norms in Türkiye3
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)3
The long-term effects of war exposure on generalized trust and risk attitudes: evidence from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina3
Aviation diplomacy: Qatar Airways in the South Caucasus3
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy3
‘Undivided’ city in a divided society: explaining the peaceful coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo3
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development3
Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China3
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power3
Local Commemorations, False Heroes, and Hijacked Memories: Post-Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Politics of Memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska (RS)3
From diffusion to contestation: understanding norms in politics2
Stigmatized but not alone: illiberal coalition-building between Turkey and Hungary2
From ‘revolution’ to war: deciphering Armenia’s populist foreign policy-making process2
Tying loose ends: political parties and individual private funding in Romania2
Memory makers: the politics of the past in Putin’s Russia2
A conceptual elitism, silenced agencies and neglected realities: a critical Review of the literature on Greece US foreign relations from the vernacular approach2
Understanding Cypriot youth views on peace: bottom-up experiences of everyday peace2
Securitization and authoritarianism: the AKP’s oppression of dissident groups in Turkey2
The Nexus between intelligence and foreign policy in the Turkish context: strategic implications of the MIT’s transformation2
When Fake News and Personal Experience Contradict: Limits to Post-Truth in Turkey2
Involvement of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kosovo: development assistance, soft power, and neofundamentalism2
Revenue sharing as a tool of conflict management in Cyprus2
European Capital of Culture title as a driving force of urban transformation: the case of Novi Sad2
Sacralizing the nation: religion, nationalism, and populism in Turkey under AKP rule2
From protest to governance: political discourse of the Self-Determination Movement in Kosovo — between consociationalism and populism2
Volatile party systems and electoral reforms: a comparative analysis of Lithuanian and Turkish reforms2
Humanitarian diplomacy in practice: Turkish and Qatari NGOs navigating access and influence in Somalia2
Believing and belonging? Religious salience and politicality of young Bosnian Muslims in the time of Islamophobia2
Peace and security in the Western Balkans: a local perspective2
Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment , by Rita Cal2
Place attachment and political violence: narratives of deportations to the Soviet Gulag and Bărăgan2
Infrastructure diplomacy and strategic signalling within the Three Seas Initiative2
‘Let the black sea unite Us’: the 1967 Soviet-Turkish industrial agreement and Ankara’s cold war rapprochement with Moscow2
The failure of Islamization policies in Turkey: a “Victory” of Secularization Theory?2
Correction2
Economic voting in the 2023 Turkish general election2
Counter-terrorism in the age of hard power: reassessing Turkey’s policy against the PKK2
Narrative interventions in the framework of Manifesta 14 reviving and questioning the murky collective memory in Prishtina2
Populist foreign policy: cases of Argentina, Colombia, Türkiye, and Venezuela2
Party change and cleavage shifting in the global South: the case of Ecevit’s CHP in Turkey2
Being small in a large club: unpacking Armenia’s actorness in the Eurasian Economic Union2
Contesting the norm contester: responses to Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention2
The Transformation of the Media System in Turkey Citizenship, Communication, and Convergence1
Battle for the European Union in the periphery: contestation dynamics and domestic debates1
Presidential decrees as instruments of autocratization: the case of Turkey’s institutional transformation1
Leash-slipping, not leash-cutting: Türkiye’s BRICS bid and the search for autonomy within the transatlantic hierarchy1
Hedging strategy of Turkey in great power competition1
Turkey and the EU: waning foreign policy alignment in a changing international context1
European energy security in the wake of the Russia–Ukraine war: a systemic analysis of short-term shocks and long-term transitions1
Revisiting the modern infrastructure ideal: present as past in neo-Ottoman Istanbul1
Discursive (re)production of social cleavages in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections1
Engaging minorities under emergency: Turkish modular emergency and the Kurdish case revisited1
“If you can’t beat them – join them”: explaining Milli Görüş movement’s views towards the West1
The perception of volunteering in Türkiye: socio-cultural factors and structural-institutional continuities1
Continuity and change in Turkish politics: economic and behavioural explanations of democratic backsliding1
An exodus from Turkey: tales of migration and exile1
Nation and state ideology debates in Montenegro: the case of Vukašin Marković1
Suitcase Europeanization: the urban transformation of Northern Greece through the Gastarbeiter migration and return (1960-1981)1
Tracing the development of Kosovar and Albanian identities using urban toponyms1
Correction1
Love migrants as digital citizens: Turkish-speaking diaspora in Athens1
Complementarity between the EU and NATO in light of the war in Ukraine: an analysis from the perspective of collective securitization theory1
Politics of household indebtedness in Turkey1
Assessing centralization: on Turkey’s rising personalist regime1
Population censuses and identity politics in the Republic of Croatia1
Scope, drivers and manifestations of the realist turn in Turkish foreign policy: a case of delayed strategic adjustment1
State-building and the recognition of a right to statehood: international involvement in post-1999 Kosovo1
Denominational public opinion on international politics: Alevi, Shiite, and Mutashayyi perceptions of Iran in Turkey1
There’s strength in networks: the external incentives model and informality in South-Eastern Europe1
Street names as a locus of patriarchy: a case study of the city of Niš1
The meaning of the Western Balkans concept for the EU: genuine inclusion or polite exclusion?1
Roma in the history of Montenegro – displacement, marginalization and discrimination1
Revisiting dark pasts: the portrayal of Jewish minority and audience responses to the Netflix series The Club1
The impact of education on improving labour market outcomes in developing countries – evidence from Kosovo1
Mechanisms of privilege: private foundations’ tax-exemption in Turkey (1967–2022)1
Imperial nostalgia in the era of post-socialist urban change1
LGBTI politics and value change in Ukraine and Turkey1
Assessing the determinants of multi-layered dimensions of energy poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina: challenges and pathways forward1
Threats and the conservative shift in public opinion: comparative causal mediation analyses from Turkey1
A difficult change: norm contestation in multiple veto player settings1
The impact of health on voting intent among youth in nine Southeast European countries: a mediation analysis on the role of political trust1
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