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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	45
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	35
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	29
Periods, Pregnancy, and Peeing: Leaky Feminine Bodies in Swedish Military Marketing	24
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	22
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	18
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	17
Violence as a Constitutive of States	15
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	15
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	14
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	13
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	12
Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture	11
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	11
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	11
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
Settler Military Politics: On the Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous People in the Military	10
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	10
Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations	9
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	9
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	8
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	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
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	7
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	6
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	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
Contributors	6
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	6
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	5
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	5
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise: The “Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry”	5
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	5
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
Political Visual Literacy	4
Walking the International	4
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	4
Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice	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
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	3
Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory	3
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26	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
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	2
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	2
Reporting Security: Postcolonial Governmentality in the United Nations’ Trusteeship System	2
Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies	2
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	2
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	2
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation	2
Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International	2
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	2
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	2
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	2
Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security, Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes	1
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	1
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	1
Seeing Islamophobia in Black: Contesting Imperial Logics in the Anti-Racist Moment	1
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy	1
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	1
“Protecting” Rights of Smuggled Migrants in the Context of State-Enforced Immobility: Legal Borderwork in Senegal	1
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	1

Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	1
When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth	1
Infodemic, Ignorance, or Imagination? The Problem of Misinformation in Health Emergencies	1
Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	1
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	1
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats	1
Late Modern War and theGeos	1
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	1
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	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
Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2021	1
Humanization, Dehumanization, and Spectacularization: The Semiotics of UNICEF’s Unfairy Tales	1
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Embodiment, Relationality, and Power	1
Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates	1