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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	62
War without Boots	53
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	42
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	39
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	32
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	31
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	25
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	24
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	24
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	18
Wither the Trade Regime?	17
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	16
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	16
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	16
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	15
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	15
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	15
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	14
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	14
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	13
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	13
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	13
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	12
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	12

How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	11
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	10
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	10
Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges	10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	9
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	9
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	8
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	8
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	8
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	8
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	8
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	7
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	7
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	7
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
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,	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	6
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	6
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	5
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	5
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	4
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	4
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3

Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	3
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	3
How Should States Think?	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	3
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	3
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	3
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	2
Global Problems, Global Actions?	2
Another Geopolitics? International Relations and the Boundaries of World Order	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	2
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
The Problem of Difference: Using Dynamic Praxis to Reimagine International Relations	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	1
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	1
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	1
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	1
The Rankings Game: A Relational Approach to Country Performance Indicators	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	1
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	1
Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing	1
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	1
Evaluating and Defending Religious Freedom	1
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	1
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	1
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	1
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	1