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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	76
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	64
War without Boots	43
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	39
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	36
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	35
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	31
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	25
Wither the Trade Regime?	22
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	22
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	22
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	22
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	21
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	20
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	20
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	20
Review of The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy	16
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	16
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	15
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	14
Review of Beyond power transitions. The lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S. —China relations	14
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	14
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	13
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	13
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	12

European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	12
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	12
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	12
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	11
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	11
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	11
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
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,	10
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	9
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Review of The no-fly zone in US foreign policy: the curious persistence of a flawed instrument	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
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
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
How Should States Think?	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	4
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4