OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Online disinformation on Facebook: the spread of fake news during the Portuguese 2019 election	20
The conceptual dimensions of EU public diplomacy	17
Northern Ireland and Brexit: where sovereignty and stability collide?	16
A geopolitical turn to EU enlargement, or another postponement? An introduction	14
Weaponizing narrative: Russia contesting EUrope’s liberal identity, power and hegemony	14
The use of the past by theAlternative for Germanyand theFront National: heritage populism,Ostalgiaand Jeanne D’Arc	14
‘I will handle it personally’: The neo-patrimonial rhetoric of the Czech Prime Minister in the times of COVID-19	13
Is Alt-Europe possible? Populist radical right counternarratives of European integration	11
Narrative Ju-jitsu: counter-narratives to European union	11
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	10
Between EU’s aspiring saint and disillusioned rebel: hegemonic narrative and counter-narrative production in Poland	10
A matter of preference: Taking sides on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project	10
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe	10
Bilateral relations in the Western Balkans as a challenge for EU accession	10
The right to privacy and an implication of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe: challenges to the companies	9
Beyond anger: the populist radical right on TikTok	9
When COVID-19 circulates in right-wing populist discourse: the contribution of a global crisis to European meta-populism at the cross-border regional scale	8
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	8
Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations	8
Left-Right radicalism and Populist attitudes in France and Spain	7
The persistent dilemma of supranational representation. Framing the weakness of the European Parliament’s representative function in light of the rise of Euroscepticism	7
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	7
The impact of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict on military expenditures of European states: security alliances or geography?	7
‘The more populism types you know, the better political scientist you are?’ Machine-learning based meta-analysis of populism types in the political science literature	6
Ukraine: remedial secession and Russian aggression	6

A new business as usual? The impact of the ‘resilience turn’ on the EU’s foreign policy and approach towards the eastern neighbourhood	6
Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication	6
Populism and social capital in structurally disadvantaged regions and the 2023 Czech presidential election: making democracy work again?	6
Society and territory: making sense of Italian populism from a historical perspective	6
The Soft Power of China and the European Union in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Strategy	5
Debating European Union governance in times of crisis	5
A divorce of convenience: exploring radical right populist parties’ position on Putin’s Russia within the context of the Ukrainian war. A social media perspective	5
The European Parliament put to the test by COVID-19: voting dynamics and coalition patterns of the EP’s first response to the global pandemic	5
Double two-level games and international negotiations: making sense of migration governance in EU-Africa relations	5
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	5
'Us vs. Them': Stigma, discrimination, social exclusion and human rights violations in Erdoğan’s Turkey	5
EU public diplomacy in the United States: socio-political challenges & EU delegation agency	5
Actors and Sites for Knowledge Production on Radicalisation in Europe and Beyond	5
The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe	4
EU global human rights sanctions regime: is the genie out of the bottle?	4
Heroisation and victimisation: populism, commemorative narratives and National Days in Hungary and Poland	4
Experience of economic hardship and right-wing political orientation hinder climate concern among European young people	4
The Akademik Lomonosov and the Arctic legal regime: geopolitics versus international law?	4
The ‘migrant other’ as a security threat: the ‘migration crisis’ and the securitising move of the Polish ruling party in response to the EU relocation scheme	4
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	4
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	4
Contesting the European Union in a changing climate: policy narratives and the justification of supranational governance	4
Representing the radical right of the Grande Nation in the Grand Duchy: the viral ‘fortress Europe’, the contagious ‘borderless Europe’ and the non-communicable ‘cross-border regional Europe’	4
Local advisory councils in deliberative decision-making. Findings from research in Polish cities	4
Dealing with a difficult past: historical memories of the Vichy regime and fascism in the ideology of the Rassemblement National and the Lega	4
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain	4
Finland’s responses to Brexit: seeking shelter while hedging against changing risks	4
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	3
Reaction to the Russian aggression against Ukraine: cities as international standards’ supporters	3
Turning the sock inside out: history of Basque studies from a transnational perspective	3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	3
The importance of trust and transparency in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from sixteen EU member states	3
Towards a fruitful concept of radicalisation: a synthesis	3
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark	3
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	3
Antiestablishment populism in Bulgaria: mainstreaming in the digital era	3
Normalizing far right party rhetoric: the impact of media populist frames and coverage on the electoral prospects of far-right parties in the case of Cyprus	3
From Brexit to Dexit? Alternative für Deutschland’s Euroscepticism on European debates in the Bundestag	3
Bordering power Europe? The mobility-bordering nexus in and by the European Union	3
Portugal’s strategic response to Brexit: enduring Europeanisation?	3
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare	3
Role conflict, its compromise, and the European Union’s public diplomacy in China	3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	3
Historical legacies and the political mobilization of national nostalgia: Understanding populism’s relationship to the past	3
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism	3
Reflecting on public policies for Portuguese Roma since implementation of the NRIS: theoretical and practical issues	3
The ‘pure polish people’ vs the ‘European elite’ – how do populism and Euroscepticism interact in Polish politics?	3
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation	3
The Energy Community and Europeanization of South East Europe and beyond: a rational choice - historical institutionalist explanation	3
Counter-narratives in the European Parliament: Far Left and Far Right Groups and European ‘union’ in the 1980s	3

Europol and cybercrime: Europol’s sharing decryption platform	3
Introduction: resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises?	3
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	3
Back to the future, recovering the past: a critical discourse analysis of the terms ‘democracy’ and ‘direct democracy’ in the speeches of the Rassemblement National and the Freiheitliche Par	3
Conceptualising the waves of Islamist radicalisation in the UK	3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	3
Building legitimacy: why the populist radical right engages in grassroots activism at the local level	3
Repressing the Protests through Law, Police and Discourse: the Example of the Yellow Vests’ Movement in France	3
Depoliticising the people: post-normative power Europe in the women-led protests in Belarus	3
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	3
Right-wing populist education policy in a social democratic welfare state context	2
The art of securitising. Orbán’s handling of the European refugee crisis	2
An ‘East-West split’ about the posting of workers? Questioning the representation of socio-economic interests in the European Parliament	2
The false promise of Europeanisation in Turkey’s national identity discourse	2
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe	2
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	2
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	2
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	2
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland	2
Exploring Sino-Russian-Nordics triangular relations: complex balancing along the Polar Silk Road	2
Fanning the flames? An exploration of EU discourse on culture in the Eastern Partnership	2
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	2
Franco-German leadership in the context of EU defence policy: from Brexit to the strategic compass	2
The neutralisation of the political. Carl Schmitt and the depoliticisation of Europe	2
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	2
Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture	2
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	2
Unemployment as fertile ground for electoral support of the radical left: evidence from the european regions in the first two decades of the 21st century	2
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants	2
Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence	2
OK Google: is (s)he guilty?	2
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?	2
The Open Balkan initiative: A step forward towards European integration or running on empty?	2
How to approach state capture in post-communist Europe. A new research agenda	2
Drivers of domestic politicisation of European issues: explaining low politicisation of differentiated integration in Czechia	2
Brexit and Trump: contesting new cleavage formation	2
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	2
Ambiguous identities in crisis-ridden Greece: ‘us’ and/against ‘Europe’	2
Architects of regional regime complexity: states and regional organizations in Europe	2
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions	2
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	2
An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa	2
Sticking to the core or going beyond? The Austrian freedom party’s educational approach in a longitudinal perspective	2
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy	2