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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	35
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	23
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	22
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	21
On Transversality: For a Reproblematization of the International in IPS	21
Seeing Through the Template: Colonial Affordances in Development Documentation	20
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	17
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	16
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	16
Violence as a Constitutive of States	15
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	14
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	13
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	12
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	11
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
Navigating Plural Coloniality: Reflections on the Making of Black Afro-Francophone Higher Education in an Anglo-American Academic World	10
Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture	10
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR: Towards a Praxis of Refusal	10
Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste	10
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	10
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	8

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	8
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	8
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	7
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	7
Tracing Universals across Global Governance	7
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	7
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	7
Bringing the Economic Back! Thinking about the Politics of Expertise Within and Beyond the Social	6
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	6
Movement, Space, and Torture: Exploring Contemporary Dance and Experimental Filmmaking as a Method for International Relations	6
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims	6
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	5
“In the End, History Repeats Itself.” Entangled Continuities and Changes in Discrimination Experiences and Resilience Strategies amongst Migrant Roma in Germany	5
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	5
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	5
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	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
Political Visual Literacy	4
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	4
Walking the International	4
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	4
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	4
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	3
The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
Deep Global Futures: World Politics in Posthuman Times	3
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	3
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	3
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	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
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Surveillance and Affect in the War on Terror	3
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	3
Economic Sanctions, Racial Capitalism, and the Crisis of the International Order	3
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	3
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	3
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates	2
Whose “Divas”? Exhibition, Gender, and the International Circulation of a Contemporary “Arab” Artistic Memory	2
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	2
“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics	2
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	2
Can’t Take a Joke! Theorizing Reactionary Humor through a Pessimistic Counter-Reading	2
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	2
The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics	2
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	2

Making It Worse: Productive Failure as Global Common Sense	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
Making Finance Legible: Speculative Fiction and the Sociology of Futures	2
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	2
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	2
The Adult Gaze: Looking Again at Children and Young People in Peace and Conflict	1
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	1
Infodemic, Ignorance, or Imagination? The Problem of Misinformation in Health Emergencies	1
Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2021	1
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	1
Liquid Legitimacy: Lessons on Military Violence from the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank	1
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	1
When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth	1
Late Modern War and theGeos	1
Humanization, Dehumanization, and Spectacularization: The Semiotics of UNICEF’s Unfairy Tales	1
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats	1
Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion	1
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy	1
“Protecting” Rights of Smuggled Migrants in the Context of State-Enforced Immobility: Legal Borderwork in Senegal	1
Benchmarking and Provenance: The Politics of Data Trust in EU Internal Security	1
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Embodiment, Relationality, and Power	1
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	1