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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Turkey, the EU and the Middle East: foreign policy cooperation and the Arab uprisings	17
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	16
Brexit and Malta’s coping strategies: diverging shelters	14
Democratic decay and authoritarian resurgence	14
Handbook of human mobility and migration	14
An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa	13
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	11
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	11
Europe and the decline of social democracy in Britain: from Attlee to Brexit	10
Black garden aflame: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Soviet and Russian press	10
Migration and populism in Bulgaria	9
Russia and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals	9
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	8
Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence	8
Mass housing: modern architecture and state power: a global history	8
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe	8
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession	7
Governmental change in 2019 Italy: domestic factors or European constraints?	7
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain	7
Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication	7
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times	6
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	6
Weaponizing narrative: Russia contesting EUrope’s liberal identity, power and hegemony	6
Myth of the near future? Assessing the European Green Deal’s potential to become a political myth for the European Union	6
Depoliticising the people: post-normative power Europe in the women-led protests in Belarus	6

Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	6
The comparative politics of immigration: policy choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland and the USA	5
Europeanization as a hegemonic process: the counter-hegemonic coal phase-out struggle in Turkey	5
EU’s ‘Eastern discontents’ – when ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ politicisation collide – the case of Romania in the future of Europe debate	5
EU socio- economic governance in central and Eastern Europe: the European semester and national employment policies	5
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	5
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	5
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland	5
Experience of economic hardship and right-wing political orientation hinder climate concern among European young people	5
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders	5
Brexit and the EU Settlement Scheme: Continuity and rupture with the European Union	4
No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties	4
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime: the case of Georgia	4
Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood	4
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	4
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	4
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	4
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members	4
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	4
Contesting the European Union in a changing climate: policy narratives and the justification of supranational governance	4
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions	4
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 2015	4
Antiestablishment populism in Bulgaria: mainstreaming in the digital era	4
The ‘pure polish people’ vs the ‘European elite’ – how do populism and Euroscepticism interact in Polish politics?	4
Beyond anger: the populist radical right on TikTok	4
Grand strategy in 10 words: a guide to great power politics in the 21^st century	3
Disrupting European politics? Rhetorical analysis of MEP Manon Aubry’s politicising strategies in Twitter	3
Illiberal spectatorship – the disfigurement of citizenship in Hungary and Poland	3
Fundamental right or political value? The evolution of ‘freedom of religion or belief’ in the European Union’s legitimation and public action	3
The paradox of inclusion: future engagement or disengagement between the EU and Turkey in the context of the Green Deal	3
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe	3
National identity in Serbia : the Vojvodina and a multi-ethnic community in the Balkans	3
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	3
May the lord protect our country: ethnic relations as a moderator between religiosity and radical right vote	3
Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian movement	3
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope	3
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	3
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right: a first assessment of the Meloni government	3
Repressing the Protests through Law, Police and Discourse: the Example of the Yellow Vests’ Movement in France	3
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	3
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	3
Human rights approach in selected European municipal strategies of international relations	3
Political advice: past, present and future	3
FortressEurope integrating through division: an actantial narrative analysis	3
Central Europe thirty years after the fall of communism. A return to the margins?	3
The EU as a partner of ILO in trade negotiations. Explaining labour reform in Vietnam	3
The War in Ukraine’s Donbass – Origins, Context, and the Future	3
Germany’s benchmark status in the Eurozone	3
Architects of regional regime complexity: states and regional organizations in Europe	3
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation	3

The global actorness of the EU seen from the Korean media and elites: a capability-expectations gap or an expectations deficit?	3
Georgia’s external frontier on Russia sedimented and unmalleable: engagement politics and the impact of the three-tier warfare	3
Facts, values and the policy world	3
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	3
Has Erdoğan made Turkey a ‘subject’ in the Middle East and North Africa ?	3
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	3
Building legitimacy: why the populist radical right engages in grassroots activism at the local level	2
Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine	2
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	2
Through the looking glass? Lessons from party Europeanisation in Denmark	2
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	2
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	2
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	2
Europe’s evolving role in us grand strategy, indispensable or insufferable?	2
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	2
Coming to terms with the European refugee crisis	2
Becoming more and more European: nationhood, Europe, and same-Sex sexualities in the life stories of Lithuanian LGBQ people	2
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	2
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without: the rule of law and refugee crises	2
Ambiguous identities in crisis-ridden Greece: ‘us’ and/against ‘Europe’	2
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	2
A thorough look into the state-market divide: depoliticisation of privatisation in post-crisis Greece	2
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain	2
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	2
Security for the small: materializing securitization in Finland and Norway	2
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective	2
Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture	2
Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK	2
Is Alt-Europe possible? Populist radical right counternarratives of European integration	2
An inquiry into the causes and economic consequences of contemporary populism in the central and Eastern European countries	2
The (changing) concept of democracy in (transforming) European populist radical right discourses: the case of Polish Law and Justice	2
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism	2
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	2
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse	2
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe	2
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	2
Faces of populism in central and south-eastern europe	2