OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Studies Review is 1. 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
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	76
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	64
War without Boots	43
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	39
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	36
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	35
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	31
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	25
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	22
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	22
Wither the Trade Regime?	22
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	22
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	21
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	20
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	20
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	20
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	16
Review of The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy	16
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	15
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	14
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	14
Review of Beyond power transitions. The lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S. —China relations	14
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	13
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	13
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	12

COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	12
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	12
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	12
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	11
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	11
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press,	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	7
Review of The no-fly zone in US foreign policy: the curious persistence of a flawed instrument	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	4
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
How Should States Think?	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3

Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	3
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	3
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	2
Review of Indirect rule: the making of US international hierarchy	2
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	2
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	2
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	2
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	2
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	2
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	2
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	2
Why Rivalries Endure	1
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	1
Drones and the Study of Public Opinion: Continuity or Change?	1
The Challenges of Multilateralism	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Correction to: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
The Complex Social Ontology of International Law on War	1
International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	1
Review of Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture	1
Populist Foreign Policy: Mapping the Developing Research Program on Populism in International Relations	1
Security Assistance and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
China's Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”	1
The Evolution of Databases in the Age of Targeted Sanctions	1
The Middle East and North Africa in Political Science Scholarship: Analyzing Publication Patterns in Leading Journals, 1990–2019	1
Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism	1
Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance	1
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System”	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1