OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Sociology is 2. 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
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	38
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	24
On Transversality: For a Reproblematization of the International in IPS	24
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	23
Seeing Through the Template: Colonial Affordances in Development Documentation	21
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	20
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	20
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	19
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	18
Violence as a Constitutive of States	18
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	17
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	13
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste	11
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
Navigating Plural Coloniality: Reflections on the Making of Black Afro-Francophone Higher Education in an Anglo-American Academic World	11
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	11
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR: Towards a Praxis of Refusal	10
Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture	10
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
Critique of Ontological Militarism	9
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	9
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	8
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	8
Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations	8

“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	8
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	8
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	8
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	8
Motioning the International: Thinking International Relations with Movement	7
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	7
Tracing Universals across Global Governance	7
Movement, Space, and Torture: Exploring Contemporary Dance and Experimental Filmmaking as a Method for International Relations	6
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	6
Bringing the Economic Back! Thinking about the Politics of Expertise Within and Beyond the Social	6
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	6
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims	6
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	6
Necropolitical Compassion: Rhetorical Care and Repressive Borders in the English Channel	5
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	5
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	5
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	5
“In the End, History Repeats Itself.” Entangled Continuities and Changes in Discrimination Experiences and Resilience Strategies amongst Migrant Roma in Germany	5
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
“Interconnectedness and interdependence”: Never Alone, Thunderbird Strike , and Indigenous Relationalism in Video Games	5
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	4
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	4
The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26	4
Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World	4
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	4
Walking the International	4
Political Visual Literacy	4
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	4
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	4
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
Deep Global Futures: World Politics in Posthuman Times	3
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	3
Economic Sanctions, Racial Capitalism, and the Crisis of the International Order	3
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Surveillance and Affect in the War on Terror	3
Whose “Divas”? Exhibition, Gender, and the International Circulation of a Contemporary “Arab” Artistic Memory	3
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	3
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?	3
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	3
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	3
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	3
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	2
“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics	2
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	2
Can’t Take a Joke! Theorizing Reactionary Humor through a Pessimistic Counter-Reading	2
Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates	2
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	2
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	2
Making Finance Legible: Speculative Fiction and the Sociology of Futures	2

Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	2
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	2
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	2
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	2
Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion	2
The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics	2
Making It Worse: Productive Failure as Global Common Sense	2
The Organic Cosmos: Cybernetics and Politics of Relations Between Arendt and Latour	2
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	2