OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	58
Correction	23
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	23
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	19
Colombia’s Program to Substitute Crops Used for Illegal Purposes: Its Impact on Security and Development	18
Perpetual Peacebuilding: A New Paradigm to Move Beyond the Linearity of Liberal Peacebuilding	17
Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003–2021)	16
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	15
Correction	15
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	15
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	15
Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa	14
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	13
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
Practices of Intervention: Assembling Security Force Assistance in Lebanon	12
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	11
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	10
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	10
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	10
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	9
Building Peace in the Shadow of War: Women-to-Women Diplomacy as Alternative Peacebuilding Practice in Myanmar	9
Introducing Space for Peace	9
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	8
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	8

Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	8
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	8
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	8
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	7
When a State Seeks a Nation and a Nation Seeks a State – EU Accession in the Foreign Policies of Montenegro and Serbia	7
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	7
Correction	7
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	6
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	6
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	6
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
The Politics of Normative Intervention and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon	5
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	5
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	5
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	5
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	5
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	5
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	5
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	5
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	5
Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis	5
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	4
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	4
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	4
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	4
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	4
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	3
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	3
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	3
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	3
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	3
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	3
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	3
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	3
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration: Iraq’s Security Sector from the US Invasion to the Covid-19 Pandemic	2
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	2
The Anthropocene and the Possibilities for Creating a Pluriversal Politics	2
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities	2
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	2
Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	2
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	2
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	2
Capitalising on UNSCR 1325: The Construction of Best Practices for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda	2
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	2
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	2
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	2
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	2
Introduction – Peacebuilding Amidst Violence	2

War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	2
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	2
Correction	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
Correction	2