OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Globalizations 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Che Guevara and continental revolution	38
The landscape and conjuncture of the land rush in the Colombian Amazon: failed and pin-prick land deals	38
Advancing emigrants' rights in India: strategies of civil society in spaces for engagement	37
The trilemma of corporate taxation in a globalized world	28
Knowing dissent: the Enlightenment subject within contemporary politics of subjectivity	27
Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you the repression you face: Venezuelan authoritarianism across borders	25
Enacting the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) Triple Nexus: civic ecosystems at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war	25
Confronting multiple global crises: a political economy approach for the twenty-first century	23
The right words: mapping the ideological language of authoritarian populism in post-apartheid South Africa	22
Reprocessing and remining as grey extractivism: the example of cobalt from the Southeast Missouri Lead Belt	21
A green transition orchestrated from Big Tech clouds?	21
The EU global gateway and energy infrastructure: navigating varieties of economic statecraft	20
Compartmentality, commonist impulses, and the path to pluriversal transformation: an Australian perspective	20
The political practices of gender experts: repurposing women's empowerment	20
The politics of the anti-politics machine of agricultural commercialization: Uganda and Tanzania in the Longue Durée	19
Water utilities as debt emitters: the commercialization of development funding and services provision in Kenya’s water sector	18
Correction	17
From organic to climate solidarity: challenges for climate change mitigation	17
On failure: the persistence of (ecological) modernism	16
Enter the great volatility? Synthesizing a theory of ‘climateflation’ for international political economy	16
COVID-19 crisis and crisis management in South Korea, 2020–2021	16
Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state	15
Capital redefined: a commonist value theory for liberating life	15
Global responsibility for Amazon conservation: why soy, beef imports and agrochemical overuse demand urgent international action	15
From sacred spaces to imperial glory: a deconstruction of civilizational discourses in Türkiye and Saudi Arabia	14

Epilogue: the ethico-politics of attention	14
Polanyi’s non-ideological countermovement: one step forward, two steps back	14
The green-digital transition in the German automotive sector: dysfunctional strategies of distributive forces – negative transition effects for employees	14
Bridging divides against erratic democratic trajectories: the politics of rural and urban social movements in Southern Africa	14
The geoeconomics of infrastructures: viewing globalization and global rivalry through a lens of infrastructural competition	13
Norm spoiling, gender washing and the pushback against women’s rights in Brazilian foreign policy	13
The lying flat movement, global youth, and globality: a case of collective reading on Reddit	13
Is Jair Bolsonaro a classic populist?	13
AI for peace: new wine in old bottles?	13
Confronting international organizations on social media? Understanding digital self-representation of liminal youth in global governance	12
From liberal to state feminism? Exploring gender politics amid political transition in Hong Kong	12
Security, left populism, and abolitionist politics in the age of neo-fascism	12
‘Not too high, not too low’: transparency, opacity and the politics of poverty measurement in Jordan	12
Transnational migrant entrepreneurs: understanding their dependencies, fragilities, and alternatives	11
Education and socio-environmental justice in the pluriverse: decolonial perspectives	11
Prefiguring politics: transregional energy infrastructures as a lens for the study of authoritarian practices	11
Appropriating intelligence: capital accumulation through cognitive dispossession	11
The transnational dimension of the Pakistani ethnic economy in Barcelona	11
Work futures: globalization, planetary markets, and uneven developments in the gig economy	11
Neoliberalisation, dissensus, and the demise of tripartite bargaining in Italy after the 2011 debt crisis: a Gramscian ‘common sense’ approach	11
Attacking gender education in Latin America: an ambiguous consensus?	11
Containing change: the politics of transitional aid in Egypt after the Arab uprisings	10
Decolonizing AI rationality in the Ecuadorian Amazon	10
The ties that bind: reassessing the political significance of the BRICS amid Russia’s War on Ukraine	10
Digital markets and the commercialization of healthcare in Africa: the case of Kenya	10
Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM)	10
Visas, surveillance and revocation: the tenuous status of international students in American higher education	10
Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union	10
Contested geographies of localization(s): towards open-locales	10
The distant proximity of infrastructural harm: the contested and (in)visible dynamics of waste politics in Athens, Greece	10
Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts	9
Linking geoeconomic and financial de-risking in European energy infrastructure	9
Reaching for the past: North Korea’s engagement with Koreans in Japan	9
Climate great power under geopolitical pressures: the EU’s trajectory and response to Russia–Ukraine war, 2014 and 2022	8
Learning by doing: a role theoretical approach to learning of inter-governmental organizations	8
Hardly a nexus. The Polish frames on humanitarian assistance, peace, and development aid for Ukraine and Ukrainians in 2022	8
‘Speak of the devil and he shall appear’: unpacking the practices of security brokers in West Africa	8
Filling the descriptive representation gap? Youth platforms in global environmental governance	8
Between land and the market: farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh	8
Transformation of the global digital labour marketplace: the challenges to digital service delivery via mediating platforms	8
Between abolition and opium: civility and force across Asian and Caribbean British imperialisms	8
‘Throwing in my two cents’: Burundian diaspora youth between conventional and transformative forms of mobilization	8
‘Neoliberalism, far-right politics, and the shrinking White middle class in Southern California’s Inland Empire’	8
Global benchmarking: contestations from a localized everyday perspective	8
Climate change, global population and the capitalist axiomatic: making sense of Malthus	7
‘Band aid’ for women in the ready-made garment industry: self-help and surveillance in Bangladesh	7
The mutually transforming effect: European and Chinese development finance in the CEE and Western Balkans	7
Dispossession of the commons: the Chaiya community forest and the creation of special economic zones	7
Uneven development and labour super-exploitation in regional automotive formations. Insights from Mexico and Morocco	7
‘My parents told me to love my country’: positionalities of second-generation diaspora Eritreans in a transnational setting	7

Decentring the West? Civilizational solidarity and (de)colonization in theories of the Russia-Ukraine War	7
Father state and its migrant daughters	7
Afro-optimism and progressive modernity: the Fintech story in the African press	7
Correction	7
Re-embedding Polanyi’s double movement thesis – the non-ideological and destructive countermovement	6
Introduction: political subjectivity in times of crisis	6
Decentring narratives of (de)globalization and crisis: Uzbekistan’s ‘everyday’ political economy amidst Russia’s war in Ukraine	6
Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice	6
Environment, space, and identity in the Eurasian region	6
A segregated rootedness : the integration pattern of the global south immigration in Spain and its causes	6
Embeddedness and entanglement between the methods of Articulation and Calibration	6
The political economy of hipsters in Kazakhstan: mobilization, hybridity and class	6
Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization: Turkey’s diaspora governance and the politics of selective engagement	6
The roles they play: change in China’s climate leadership role during the post-Paris era	6
Organizing against mining companies during the COVID-19 pandemic: frames, tactics and the digital divide in southern Mexico	6
‘We’ll be like Che’ Foquismo and sacrificial ethics within the Latin American revolutionary activism	6
The global (health) governance of antimicrobial resistance	6
The decreasing legitimacy of non-governmental organizations in world society: evidence from the United Nations General Debates, 1992–2019	6
Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction	6
Sites, stakes, and scales: radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization	6
Representation, regulation and voice of immigrant couriers and platform drivers in Portugal	6
Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south	6
Reframing ecological modernity from below	5
Growth models and the question of popular legitimacy	5
E. F. Schumacher and the natural capital paradigm: rethinking approaches to conservation through non-violence	5
When autocratization backfires: how overreach sparked mass resistance in Thailand and Bangladesh	5
Silent revolution/passive revolution: Europe's COVID-19 recovery plan and green deal	5
For a global sociology of social movements. Beyond methodological globalism and extractivism	5
Gender, labour, and a plantation-migration nexus in North Sumatra	5
Contributing to the nation through business: development of hegemonic strategies of South Korean conglomerates	5
Business as usual: framing labour exploitation in the UN global compact	5
Che as minister: the promotion of science and technology for Cuba’s socialist development	5
Tackling terricide, not (only) ecocide: further exploring the nexus between social-ecological destruction	5
Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill	5
Non-state legitimation as practice: the multiplicit making of public authority in Afro-Chinese engagements	5
The shape of things to come: a further dialogue	5
Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy	5
Hypermarketization: standardized shopping in emerging economies	5
Contract farming and the broken promises of rural development: inequality, resistance, and disruption in Tanzania’s export horticulture	5
Total extractivism: welcome to the open cabal of ‘more is more’ & ‘all energy’	5
Global cinema in an era of deglobalization: trans-territorial compulsions and the plenipotentiary potential of human activities in Cloud Atlas and Okja	5
Residual unprotection: aflatoxin research and regulation in Senegal's postcolonial peanut infrastructures	5
Prototype research as a qualitative method for studying academic life under illiberalism: the case of Turkey	5