OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	50
Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy: Toward a New Research Agenda	36
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	34
“Hanging Out” while Studying “Up”: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork in International Relations	28
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	25
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies	23
Connecting International Relations and Public Administration: Toward A Joint Research Agenda for the Study of International Bureaucracy	23
The Return of National Self-Sufficiency? Excavating Autarkic Thought in a De-Globalizing Era	22
Weaving Worlds:Cosmopraxisas Relational Sensibility	21
QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications	20
Forum: Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research	18
NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Review across the Engaged Disciplines	16
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship	16
On the Impact of Inequality on Growth, Human Development, and Governance	14
FORUM: COVID-19 and IR Scholarship: One Profession, Many Voices	14
Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions: An Analytical Framework	13
Emergency Politics After Globalization	13
Leader Influence in Role Selection Choices: Fulfilling Role Theory's Potential for Foreign Policy Analysis	13
Refusing to Cooperate with Armed GroupsCivilian Agency and Civilian Noncooperation in Armed Conflicts	12
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	12
The United States, China, and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in East Asia	12
Field Research: A Graduate Student's Guide	12
The Rankings Game: A Relational Approach to Country Performance Indicators	12
The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative Research	12

Keeping Your Enemies Close? The Variety of Social Movements’ Reactions to International Organizations’ Opening Up	11
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	11
Reevaluating Constructivist Norm Theory: A Three-Dimensional Norms Research Program	10
It's Ordered Chaos: What Really Makes Polycentrism Work	10
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations	10
Making Sense of China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Review Essay	10
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	10
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	9
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	9
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	8
Saving National IR from Exceptionalism: The Dialogic Spirit and Self-Reflection in Chinese IR Theory	8
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	8
Pathways to Violence in Civil Wars: Combatant Socialization and the Drivers of Participation in Civilian Targeting	8
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	7
Contesting the “Corrupt Elites,” Creating the “Pure People,” and Renegotiating the Hierarchies of the International Order? Populism and Foreign Policy-Making in Turkey and Hungary	7
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	6
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	6
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	6
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	6
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	6
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	5
Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence	5
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	5
Emergency: A Vernacular Contextual Approach	5
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky	5
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	5
Navigating Multiple Identities: Decentering International Relations	5
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	5
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Globalization and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics	4
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	4
Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa	4
Do Eyes in the Sky Ensure Peace on the Ground? The Uncertain Contributions of Remote Sensing to Ceasefire Compliance	4
Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: COVID-19 and Beyond	4
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	4
Theory of Irrational Politics: Classical Realist Lessons on Foreign Policy Analysis	4
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	4
Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel	4