OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Political Sociology is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	40
Periods, Pregnancy, and Peeing: Leaky Feminine Bodies in Swedish Military Marketing	37
Violence as a Constitutive of States	32
“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans	28
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	21
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	14
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	13
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	13
Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State	13
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	12
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	11
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	11
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	10
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	10
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	10
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	9
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Settler Military Politics: On the Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous People in the Military	8
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	7
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	7
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	6
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	6
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	6

Contributors	6
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	6
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise: The “Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry”	5
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	5
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	5
Field Heteronomy and Contingent Expertise: The Case of International Tax Justice	4
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	4
Walking the International	4
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	4
Political Visual Literacy	4
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	4