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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania	24
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	21
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia	21
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	20
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 2002	17
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	16
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	15
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	14
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors	14
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	13
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times	13
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	13
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	12
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	12
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope	12
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	11
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	11
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile	11
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	10
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	10
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	10
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	9
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	9
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	9
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI	9

Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	9
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches	8
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	8
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	8
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	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	8
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	8
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	8
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	8
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	8
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	7
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	7
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	7
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	7
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	6
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	6
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	6
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis	6
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	6
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	6
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	6
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	5
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	5
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	5
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants	5
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	5
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	5
European identity and European political parties	5
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	5
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	5
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	5
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)	5
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	5
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	5
Correction	5
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	5
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	4
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	4
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	4
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	4
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	4
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	4
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	4
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	4

Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)	4
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	4
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	4
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	4
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	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
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	3
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	3
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus	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
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	3
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues	3
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)	3
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case	3
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	3
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade	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
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	3
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	3
Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey	3
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	3
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	3
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe	3
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?	3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	3