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

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	69
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	62
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	56
War without Boots	40
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	39
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	34
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	31
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	27
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	27
Wither the Trade Regime?	26
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	22
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	21
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	21
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	19
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	17
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	16
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	16
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	16
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	15
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	14
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	14
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	13
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

Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	12
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	11
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	11
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	11
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,	11
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	10
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	10
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	9
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	9
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Review of The no-fly zone in US foreign policy: the curious persistence of a flawed instrument	8
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	8
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	8
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment	7
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	7
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	6
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	5
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	5
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	5
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	4
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	4
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	4
How Should States Think?	4
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	4

“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	3
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	2
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	2
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
Review of Indirect rule: the making of US international hierarchy	2
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	2
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	2
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	2
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	2
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	2
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	2
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	2
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance	1
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism	1
The Evolution of Databases in the Age of Targeted Sanctions	1
The Challenges of Multilateralism	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System”	1
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
What's in a Norm? Centering the Study of Moral Values in Scholarship on Norm Interactions	1
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	1
The Middle East and North Africa in Political Science Scholarship: Analyzing Publication Patterns in Leading Journals, 1990–2019	1
International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	1
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Correction to: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Populist Foreign Policy: Mapping the Developing Research Program on Populism in International Relations	1
Review of Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture	1
Why Rivalries Endure	1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	1