OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis	24
Populist patterns in post-conflict settlement: leadership discursive strategies in the Serbia-Kosovo status dispute	14
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case	13
Geopolitical continuity? An analysis of the Turkish Straits and Russian ambitions	13
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 1974	12
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy	12
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova	11
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms	10
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism	10
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance	10
Greek parties’ stances on climate change: revisiting Europeanization	10
Nationalizing the multi-ethnic borderlands: state surveillance and security policies in interwar Turkey and Romania	9
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea	9
The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans	9
Opposition’s paradox of victory: electoral success and authoritarian retrenchment in Turkey	8
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear	8
Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis	8
A poliheuristic analysis of the Euphrates Shield operation in Syria: towards an extended framework	8
Securitization of gender as a modus operandi of populism: anti-gender discourses on the Istanbul Convention in the context of AKP’s illiberal transformation	8
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe	8
The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy	8
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections	8
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea: Identifying context-sensitive institutional arrangements	8
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 cases	8
Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey	7

S400s, sanctions and defiance: explaining Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy and the US response	7
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma	7
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine	6
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe	6
Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path	6
Marine trade and analysis of the ports in the Black Sea economic cooperation region	6
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies	6
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 Franzi	6
Europeanization and urban transformation in Southeast Europe: introduction	6
Roma rights in Turkey: De- europeanization as a form of contestation	5
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level	5
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship	5
Political agency in antagonistic contexts: Turkey and the politics of disaster	5
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia	5
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system	5
Everyday boundaries, borders and post-conflict societies	5
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as indicator of regime type: contemporary Serbian – Turkish relations	5
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?	4
Contesting the EU? China’s engagement with Türkiye and the Western Balkans	4
Turkish-American strategic partnership: isTurkeystill a faithful ally?	4
Securitization and digital diplomacy: Zelenskyy’s ‘security-tweet’ during the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Turkey’s public–private partnership experience: a political economy perspective	4
Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider	4
Characterization of workers’ specific summer holiday practices in the Yugoslav socialist socio-economic context	4
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study	4
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate	4
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections	4
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion: a quest for ‘better democracy’?	4
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in Northern Cyprus	4
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives	4
Aviation diplomacy: Qatar Airways in the South Caucasus	3
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 Balkans	3
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)	3
Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan	3
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy	3
Personalization of the electoral system and political parties: lessons from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Correction	3
Reconstruction of the ‘regional power’ role during the pandemic: Turkey’s COVID-19 diplomacy towards the balkans	3
The long-term effects of war exposure on generalized trust and risk attitudes: evidence from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power	3
Religion, patriarchy and female employment in Turkey: the case of faith-based organizations	3
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey	3
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment	3
Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China	3
The establishment of the Ukrainian diaspora in Turkey through migrant associations: ‘We feel as part of the diaspora from now on.’	3
Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’	3
Beyond conflict and coexistence: cosmopolitanism and inter-communal relations in late Ottoman cities	3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development	3