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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis	32
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case	20
Appreciated outsiders: the paradox of positive attitudes towards Armenians in Turkish parliamentary politics	17
Forecasting migration pressure in Greece: a hidden Markov model for scenario-based policy planning	15
Geopolitical continuity? An analysis of the Turkish Straits and Russian ambitions	14
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy	14
Populist patterns in post-conflict settlement: leadership discursive strategies in the Serbia-Kosovo status dispute	14
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 1974	13
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms	13
Greek parties’ stances on climate change: revisiting Europeanization	13
Reinterpreted liberal norms: Türkiye’s anti-Westernism in the Horn of Africa	12
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova	12
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance	12
Securitization of gender as a modus operandi of populism: anti-gender discourses on the Istanbul Convention in the context of AKP’s illiberal transformation	11
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism	11
Opposition’s paradox of victory: electoral success and authoritarian retrenchment in Turkey	11
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea	11
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear	10
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea: Identifying context-sensitive institutional arrangements	10
The culturalization of bilateral conditionality: heritage, identity, and EU enlargement in the Western Balkans	10
Theorizing the otherness of Southeastern Europe in British travel narratives: Orientalism, Balkanism or other?	9
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe	9
From anti-gender discourse to homonegative values: the case of Turkey	9
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections	9
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma	8

Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis	8
S400s, sanctions and defiance: explaining Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy and the US response	7
A poliheuristic analysis of the Euphrates Shield operation in Syria: towards an extended framework	7
The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy	7
Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey	7
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies	7
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	7
Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path	6
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe	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
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine	6
Marine trade and analysis of the ports in the Black Sea economic cooperation region	6
Nationalism: A World History	5
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship	5
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system	5
Political agency in antagonistic contexts: Turkey and the politics of disaster	5
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level	5
Europeanization and urban transformation in Southeast Europe: introduction	5
Contesting the EU? China’s engagement with Türkiye and the Western Balkans	4
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives	4
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections	4
Macroeconomics of greening Turkish agriculture: a general equilibrium analysis of input rationalization policies	4
Turkish-American strategic partnership: isTurkeystill a faithful ally?	4
Women’s empowerment in Southeast European diplomacy: a comparative analysis of Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece	4
Securitization and digital diplomacy: Zelenskyy’s ‘security-tweet’ during the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia	4
Roma rights in Turkey: De- europeanization as a form of contestation	4
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in Northern Cyprus	4
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion: a quest for ‘better democracy’?	4
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate	4
Authoritarian consolidation vs. democratic resilience: comparative post-Soviet trajectories of Russia and Ukraine	4
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?	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
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment	3
Correction	3
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy	3
Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China	3
Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan	3
The long-term effects of war exposure on generalized trust and risk attitudes: evidence from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study	3
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey	3
Personalization of the electoral system and political parties: lessons from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power	3
Aviation diplomacy: Qatar Airways in the South Caucasus	3
Populism, fear, and the construction of the enemy: a thematic analysis of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 2023 election campaign	3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development	3
Religion, patriarchy and female employment in Turkey: the case of faith-based organizations	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
‘Undivided’ city in a divided society: explaining the peaceful coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo	3

Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)