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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania	24
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia	22
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	21
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	21
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	18
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	17
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 2002	15
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	15
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	14
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	14
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	13
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors	13
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times	12
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics	12
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	12
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	12
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	12
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	11
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	11
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	11
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile	10
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	10
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	9
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	9
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	9

Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	9
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches	9
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	9
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	9
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	8
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	8
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	8
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	8
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	8
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI	8
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	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
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	7
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	7
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	6
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	6
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	6
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	6
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	6
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	6
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	6
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	6
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)	6
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis	6
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	5
Correction	5
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	5
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	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
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
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	5
European identity and European political parties	5
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	5
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	5
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	5
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	4
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	4
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	4
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)	4
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	4
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	4
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	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
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	4

Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	4
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	4
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	4
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	4
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	4
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	4
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	4
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	4
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case	4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)	4
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	3
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	3
Covid-19 and free movement restrictions in the Nordic countries – how did Finnish and Swedish MPs justify and criticise border controls?	3
Crises of European integration. Joining together or falling apart?	3
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?	3
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade	3
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy	3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	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
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe	3
Coping with an EU and Domestic Crisis: Ireland’s Approach to Brexit	3
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus	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
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives	3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	3
Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other	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
(Br)exit citizenship: belonging, rights and participation	3
Does federalism enhance representative democracy? Perpetual reform and shifting power in a divided Belgium	3
The end of thick security and the normalization of the European nationalist right: a historical Analysis	3
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	3
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	3