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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence	37
“We Closed the Ports to Protect Refugees.” Hygienic Borders and Deterrence Humanitarianism during Covid-19	34
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State	30
The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect	27
Families First? The Mobilization of Family Norms in Refugee Resettlement	26
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	18
Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory	18
The Politics of the Anthropocene: Temporality, Ecology, and Indigeneity	14
Outsourcing Hotspot Governance within the EU: Cultural Mediators as Humanitarian–Border Workers in Greece	13
“We Can Do This”: Merkel, Migration and the Fantasy of Control	11
Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International	11
Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise: The Making of “Global Mental Health” Knowledge	10
Periods, Pregnancy, and Peeing: Leaky Feminine Bodies in Swedish Military Marketing	10
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	9
Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework	8
Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam	8
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	7
Unpacking the Role of Metrics in Global Vaccination Governance	6
“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans	6
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes	5
Reporting Security: Postcolonial Governmentality in the United Nations’ Trusteeship System	5
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	5
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	5
The Settler Coloniality of Free Speech	5
Donor Love Will Tear Us Apart: How Complexity and Learning Marginalize Accountability in Peacebuilding Interventions	5

Who Owns a Deadly Virus? Viral Sovereignty, Global Health Emergencies, and the Matrix of the International	4
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	4
Transversal Politics of Big Tech	4
Sound Matters: How Sonic Formations Shape the Nuclear Deterrence and Non-Proliferation Regimes	4
Settler Military Politics: On the Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous People in the Military	4
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	4
Walking the International	3
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	3
The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction: Knowledge Production, Mobilization, and the Securitization of Social Relations	3
Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism	3
Political Subjectivation and the In/Visible Politics of Migrant Youth Organizing in Germany and the United States	3
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	3
Telling Stories about Sexual Violence, Victimization, and Agency in Militarized Settings	3
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	3
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	3
Late Modern War and theGeos	3
Midwives and Humanitarian Bureaucracy: Managing Migration at a Postcolonial Border	2
The Exemplary in Transnational Social Movements: The Legacies of the Alterglobalization Movement	2
A Feeling of Unease: Distance, Emotion, and Securitizing Indigenous Protest in Canada	2
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	2
Collective Discussion: Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic	2
Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice	2
Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	2
Inking Wartime: Military Tattoos and the Temporalities of the War Experience	2
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	2
Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements	2
Seeing Islamophobia in Black: Contesting Imperial Logics in the Anti-Racist Moment	2
Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit	2
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	1
The People's Paving Stones: The Material Politics of International Human Rights in the Baldosas por la Memoria of Buenos Aires	1
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise: The “Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry”	1
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats	1
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	1
Political Visual Literacy	1
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation	1
Contributors	1
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	1
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	1
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	1
Contributors	1
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	1
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	1
Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies	1
Secrecy and Subjectivity: Double Agents and the Dark Underside of the International System	1
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	1