OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Sociology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	40
Periods, Pregnancy, and Peeing: Leaky Feminine Bodies in Swedish Military Marketing	37
Violence as a Constitutive of States	32
“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans	28
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	21
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	14
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State	13
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	13
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	13
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	12
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	11
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	11
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	10
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	10
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	10
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	9
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Settler Military Politics: On the Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous People in the Military	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	7
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	7
Contributors	6
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	6
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	6

“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	6
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	5
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise: The “Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry”	5
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	5
Political Visual Literacy	4
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	4
Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice	4
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	4
Walking the International	4
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	4
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	3
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Surveillance and Affect in the War on Terror	3
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?	3
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	3
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	3
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	3
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	2
Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies	2
Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory	2
Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International	2
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	2
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	2
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	2
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	2
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation	1
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	1
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes	1
When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth	1
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Embodiment, Relationality, and Power	1
Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2021	1
Political Subjectivation and the In/Visible Politics of Migrant Youth Organizing in Germany and the United States	1
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	1
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	1
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	1
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	1
Liquid Legitimacy: Lessons on Military Violence from the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank	1
Late Modern War and theGeos	1
Reporting Security: Postcolonial Governmentality in the United Nations’ Trusteeship System	1
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	1
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	1
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	1
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy	1
Humanization, Dehumanization, and Spectacularization: The Semiotics of UNICEF’s Unfairy Tales	1
Infodemic, Ignorance, or Imagination? The Problem of Misinformation in Health Emergencies	1

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