OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	18
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	17
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	17
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	16
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	15
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation	14
Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence	12
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	12
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	12
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	12
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope	11
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	10
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	10
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	9
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	9
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	9
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	8
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches	8
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	8
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	8
Policing protest: the post-democratic state and the figure of black insurrection	8
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile	8
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	8
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	8
Is the rule of law really a European concern? Mediatized rule of law conflicts and the contestation of the independence of the judiciary in France and Italy	7

EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies	7
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	7
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	7
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	7
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark	7
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	6
Immigration policy and right-wing populism in Western Europe	6
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	6
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	6
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	6
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	6
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	6
The art of securitising. Orbán’s handling of the European refugee crisis	5
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	5
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	5
European identity and European political parties	5
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	5
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	5
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	5
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	5
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)	5
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	5
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	5
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	5
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	5
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	5
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	5
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants	4
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	4
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	4
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	4
EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine , by Federico F	4
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	4
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	4
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	4
Europe and the decline of social democracy in Britain: from Attlee to Brexit	4
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	4
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	4
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	4
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	4
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	4
Globalizing regionalism and international relations	3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	3
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	3
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	3
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	3
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	3
English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns , by Luke TELFORD, Routledge, Abingdon, 2022, 166 pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN: 97810320	3
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe	3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	3

Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	3
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	3
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	3
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	3
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	3
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	3
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	3
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020	3
Ambiguous identities in crisis-ridden Greece: ‘us’ and/against ‘Europe’	3
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives	3
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy	3
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	3
Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey	3
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	3
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe	3
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	3
The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict , edited by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and Karolina Pał	3
Shaping European Union’s global health initiatives. What role for the European Parliament?	3
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	3
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	3
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	3