OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Theory 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's membership in UNESCO	42
The ethics of the international monetary system	21
Failing the state self: on the politics of state shame	16
How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder	13
The spectre of statelessness	11
Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’	11
International criminalization and the historical emergence of international crimes	10
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	10
The many faces of sovereignty	10
The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity	10
Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity	8
‘The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies: scientific methodologies and their implications	8
INT volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile	7
Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation	6
Weighing responsibilities: the allocation of fair refugee quotas	6
Global international relations and the essentialism trap	6
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	5
Contesting clusters: a study of norm weaving in Pacific climate mobilities policies	4
Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology	3
Brexit and the trust paradox of sovereigntist internationalism	3
Quo Vadis?On the role of just peacewithinjust war	3
The tripartite structure of critical international theory	3
From democratic peace theory to a Kantian critical cosmology of peace	2
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics	2

The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling	2
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	2
The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45	2
INT volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India	2
The scope of accountability of international organisations: the relevance of power, institutional structure, and salience	2
Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism	1
Non-aggression pacts: context and explanation	1
Reassurance versus coercive bargaining: barriers to cooperative signaling in international relations	1
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders	1
The United Nations of IR: power, knowledge, and empire in Global IR debates	1
Weak sovereignty and interstate war	1
Confirming, suturing and transforming international recognition: the case of world heritage	1
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance	1
The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia	1
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	1
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management	1
Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception	1
Rethinking democracy in global network governance: norm polysemy, pluralism, and agonistic engagement	1
Strategic culture as a meaning-making system: towards a social semiotic account of multimodal cultural constraints in international relations	1
Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility	1
Property and international relations: lessons from Locke on anarchy and sovereignty	1