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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	32
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	21
Violence as a Constitutive of States	20
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	20
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	19
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	18
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	15
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	15
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	15
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	14
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	13
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	13
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
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
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	9
Poetic Imageries: Remembering through Poetry in Timor-Leste	9
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	8
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	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
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	8
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR: Towards a Praxis of Refusal	8

What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Critique of Ontological Militarism	8
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	7
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	7
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	7
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	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
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims	7
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	6
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	6
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	6
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	5
“In the End, History Repeats Itself.” Entangled Continuities and Changes in Discrimination Experiences and Resilience Strategies amongst Migrant Roma in Germany	5
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	5
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	5
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	5
Walking the International	4
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	3
Whose “Divas”? Exhibition, Gender, and the International Circulation of a Contemporary “Arab” Artistic Memory	3
Political Visual Literacy	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
Economic Sanctions, Racial Capitalism, and the Crisis of the International Order	3
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	3
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	3
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	3
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	3
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	3
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	3
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?	3
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	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
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	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
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	2
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	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
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	2
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	2
“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics	2
Liquid Legitimacy: Lessons on Military Violence from the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank	2
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	2
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	2
Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion	2

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