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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	58
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	47
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	36
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	36
War without Boots	28
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	27
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	21
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	20
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	19
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	18
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	16
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	15
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	14
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	14
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	14
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	14
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	12
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	11
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	11
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11

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
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	9
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	9
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	9
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,	8
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	8
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	7
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	7
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	7
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	7
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	5
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	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	5
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	5
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	4
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
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

How Should States Think?	4
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
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	2
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	2
Another Geopolitics? International Relations and the Boundaries of World Order	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	2
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Evaluating and Defending Religious Freedom	1
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	1
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	1
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	1
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	1
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	1
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	1
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	1
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	1
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	1
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	1
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	1