OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Winning? The Politics of Victory in an Era of Endless War	52
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	39
War without Boots	36
Interpersonal Commitment: The Hidden Power of Face-to-Face Diplomacy	28
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	25
Good Timing: The New Temporal Turn in International Relations Theory	23
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	20
Complexity and Dissonance: Islamic Law States and the International Order	18
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	16
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	16
Insulating Peace: Managerial Coordination in Durable Security Complexes	14
Fifty Shades of Terrorist Credit-Taking: A Review of the Existing Scholarship on Terrorist Credit-Taking	14
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	14
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	13
Reducing and Managing Risk: The Dimensions of Strong Ceasefires in Intra-State Conflict	13
Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel	13
Toward a Radical IR: Transformation, Praxis, and Critique in a (Neo)Liberal World Order	13
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	12
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship	12
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	12
Rethinking Tests of the IO Effectiveness Hypothesis: Evidence from Counter-Piracy Efforts in the Global South	11
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	11
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	10
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	10
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	10

What Do We Know about How Armed Conflict Affects Social Cohesion? A Review of the Empirical Literature	10
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	10
Peace with Adjectives: Conceptual Fragmentation or Conceptual Innovation?	10
How Should States Think?	9
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	9
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	9
Conceptualizing the Effects of Polarization for US Foreign Policy Behavior in International Negotiations: Revisiting the Two-Level Game	8
Global International Relations and Worlding Beyond the West: A Pedagogical Critique	8
False Readiness: Expanding the Concept of Readiness in Conflict Resolution Theory	8
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	8
NGO Accountability: A Conceptual Review across the Engaged Disciplines	8
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	6
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	6
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	6
The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative Research	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	6
Emergency: A Vernacular Contextual Approach	5
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	5
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	5
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	5
Keeping Your Enemies Close? The Variety of Social Movements’ Reactions to International Organizations’ Opening Up	5
A Typology of Ontological Insecurity Mechanisms: Russia's Military Engagement in Syria	5
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	5
Global Problems, Global Actions?	4
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	4
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	4
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	4
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	4
Climate Change, Energy Transition, and Constitutional Identity	4
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	4
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	4
Global Hierarchies and Unequal Pressures in the Report-Making of Truth Commissions	4
The Drug War as a Tragedy and a Crime	4
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	3
Climate Change and Violent Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa	3
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	3
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations	3
FORUM: COVID-19 and IR Scholarship: One Profession, Many Voices	3
Opening the Black Box of Transparency: An Analytical Framework for Exploring Causal Pathways from Reporting and Review to State Behavior Change	3
Wither the Trade Regime?	3
Leader Influence in Role Selection Choices: Fulfilling Role Theory's Potential for Foreign Policy Analysis	3
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	3
Uncertain Readiness: Process Design and Complexity Management in Peace Negotiations	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	3

“Hanging Out” while Studying “Up”: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork in International Relations	3
Deterrence through Inflicting Costs: Between Deterrence by Punishment and Deterrence by Denial	3
Bringing the Ottoman Order Back into International Relations: A Distinct International Order or Part of an Islamic International Society?	3