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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis	34
Geopolitical continuity? An analysis of the Turkish Straits and Russian ambitions	19
Greek parties’ stances on climate change: revisiting Europeanization	11
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case	11
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms	10
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance	10
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy	9
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova	9
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 1974	9
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism	8
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea	8
The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans	7
Nationalizing the multi-ethnic borderlands: state surveillance and security policies in interwar Turkey and Romania	7
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea: Identifying context-sensitive institutional arrangements	6
S400s, sanctions and defiance: explaining Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy and the US response	6
Securitization of gender as a modus operandi of populism: anti-gender discourses on the Istanbul Convention in the context of AKP’s illiberal transformation	6
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma	6
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections	6
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear	6
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe	6
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	5
Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey	5
Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path	5
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe	5
Marine trade and analysis of the ports in the Black Sea economic cooperation region	5

The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy	5
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies	5
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	5
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia	5
Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis	5
Europeanization and urban transformation in Southeast Europe: introduction	5
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine	5
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system	5
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections	4
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?	4
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level	4
Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider	4
Everyday boundaries, borders and post-conflict societies	4
Roma rights in Turkey: De- europeanization as a form of contestation	4
Political agency in antagonistic contexts: Turkey and the politics of disaster	4
Contesting the EU? China’s engagement with Türkiye and the Western Balkans	4
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship	4
Turkey’s public–private partnership experience: a political economy perspective	4
Turkish-American strategic partnership: isTurkeystill a faithful ally?	4
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as indicator of regime type: contemporary Serbian – Turkish relations	4
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power	3
Securitization and digital diplomacy: Zelenskyy’s ‘security-tweet’ during the Russia-Ukraine war	3
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in northern Cyprus	3
Characterization of workers’ specific summer holiday practices in the Yugoslav socialist socio-economic context	3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development	3
Beyond conflict and coexistence: cosmopolitanism and inter-communal relations in late Ottoman cities	3
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)	3
Personalization of the electoral system and political parties: lessons from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion: a quest for ‘better democracy’?	3
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives	3
Religion, patriarchy and female employment in Turkey: the case of faith-based organizations	3
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy	3
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment	3
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey	3
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate	3
Reconstruction of the ‘regional power’ role during the pandemic: Turkey’s COVID-19 diplomacy towards the balkans	3
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study	3