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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	36
“The cultural war is declared”: The Front National’s cultural policy and the resistance it provoked in France between 1995 and 2002	26
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	25
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	22
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	21
Growth model dependencies and the digital sovereignty agenda: comparative analysis of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia	18
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	17
Influencing the general public? The self-perceived communicative roles of Norwegian and Danish far-right anti-immigration actors	17
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	15
The limits of strategic narratives: the EU–US relationship between emotive polarization and uncertain times	15
A case of far-right mainstreaming beyond electoral performance: far-right memory politics in Albania	15
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	14
Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine	14
Alternative media and political divides: understanding system-critical and elite-challenging sentiments in Czech politics	14
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	13
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	13
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	13
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	12
The past as resource – memory and emotions in Russia’s war on Ukraine	11
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	11
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	11
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	10
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	10
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	10
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	10

Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	9
State positioning in European military AI networks: a social network analysis of European partnerships in military AI	9
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	9
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	9
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	9
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	9
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	9
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	8
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	8
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	8
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	8
The elephant in the room: the European Council’s dominance in core state powers during times of crisis	8
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	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
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	8
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	7
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	7
Media leaning in Romania: an audience-centric study	7
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	7
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	7
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	7
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	6
Correction	6
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	6
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	6
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	6
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	6
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	6
European identity and European political parties	6
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	6
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	5
Emotions and memories of peace and war in EU defence policy	5
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	5
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	5
Challenging the mainstream in times of crisis: evidence from legislative speeches in Italy (2013–2018)	5
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	5
The power of semantic flexibility: resilience and cohesion in Sweden’s and Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plans	5
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	5
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	5
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	5
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	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
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	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
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
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives	4

Returning Back or to Self: Reluctance and Compatibility of Third space and EU Enlargement to the Inner Other	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
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
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	4
Excluding the evil Neighbour? A Lacanian ontological security approach to Reform UK and Rassemblement Nationa l’s discourse on immigration	4
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	4
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	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
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	4
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	4
Narrowing the ‘expectations deficit’? Evolving Japanese expectations of the EU as an Indo-Pacific security actor (2020–2022)	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
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	4
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	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