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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	88
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	49
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	46
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	43
Theorizing Translation in International Relations: Time, Transformation, and the Politics of Meaning	39
Review of Realism Versus Global Arms Control and Disarmament: Ethics and Force in Carr, Morgenthau, and Schwarzenberger	35
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	31
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	27
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	25
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	24
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	23
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	22
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	22
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	21
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	20
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	17
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	17
Review of De Bonifácio a Amorim: elementos de uma teoria social da política externa brasileira	17
Review of The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy	17
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	16
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	16
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	14
Review of Beyond power transitions. The lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S. —China relations	14
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	13
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12

Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	11
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	11
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	10
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	10
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	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,	9
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	9
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	8
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	7
Review of Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment	6
Review of The no-fly zone in US foreign policy: the curious persistence of a flawed instrument	6
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	5
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	5
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	5
Relational Voices in International Studies: Rethinking Theory and Method Through Relationality	5
New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts	4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	4
International Relations, Quantum Social Theory, and Scientific Reductionism	4
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Relationality as Method: Bridging the Self and Home with the World	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4