OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 4. 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
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	39
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	29
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 2002	28
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times	26
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	22
Populist performances and the normalisation of the far right: the case of the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory in France and Germany	21
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	21
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	20
Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine	18
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics	17
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	15
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania	15
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors	15
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	14
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia	14
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	13
The past as resource – memory and emotions in Russia’s war on Ukraine	13
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	12
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	12
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	11
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	11
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	11
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI	11
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	11
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	11

Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	10
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	10
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	10
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	10
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	10
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	9
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	8
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	8
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	8
Media leaning in Romania: an audience-centric study	8
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	8
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	8
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	7
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	7
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	7
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	7
European identity and European political parties	7
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis	7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	7
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	7
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	7
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	7
Correction	7
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	7
The power of semantic flexibility: resilience and cohesion in Sweden’s and Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plans	6
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	6
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	6
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	6
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	6
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	6
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	6
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	6
Emotions and memories of peace and war in EU defence policy	6
Delineating the profile of the Eurosceptic citizen	6
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	6
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)	6
Understanding the normalization of the far right: populism, mass media, and politainment	5
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	5
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	5
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	5
Narrating Europe’s future history through collective memory and emotions: the EU and NATO’s enlargement decisions after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	5
The Copernican revolution in Portugal’s image and interests during transition (1974–1976): from alternative projects to the European option	5
Whatever happened to Red Belt rural communism in Western Europe? A comparative perspective on the Finnish case	5
Populism and emotional campaigning: the strategic use of emotions in the 2021 Czech general election campaign	5
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	5
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	5
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	4
Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemblement Nationa l’s discourse on immigration	4
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	4

Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	4
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives	4
Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade	4
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe	4
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	4
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	4
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	4
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	4
No to the ‘mad’ Green Deal, yes to ‘quality’ Czech food: how the far-right populist Freedom and Direct Democracy messages on environmental issues	4
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	4
Tunisia’s multiple roles as a gatekeeper of (Im)mobility: the case of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding	4
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	4
Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other	4
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)	4
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	4
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	4
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus	4
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	4