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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Our place in the universe: Alexander Wendt and quantum mechanics	13
Failing the state self: on the politics of state shame	11
Preface	10
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's membership in UNESCO	10
The spectre of statelessness	9
The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity	9
The many faces of sovereignty	9
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	8
INT volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile	7
International criminalization and the historical emergence of international crimes	7
INT volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The false promise of global IR: exposing the paradox of dependent development	5
Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation	5
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	5
Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology	5
Global international relations and the essentialism trap	5
Quo Vadis?On the role of just peacewithinjust war	4
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics	4
The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45	4
Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India	4
Contesting clusters: a study of norm weaving in Pacific climate mobilities policies	4
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	3
The strange fate of the morphed ‘rump materialism’: a comment on the vagaries of social science as seen through Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science	3
Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception	2

Walter Lippmann, emotion, and the history of international theory	2
Otherwise than quantum	2
INT volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Non-aggression pacts: context and explanation	2
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling	2
The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia	1
Weak sovereignty and interstate war	1
INT volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders	1
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: the entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth	1
Alexander Wendt, Quantum mind and social science: unifying physical and social ontology	1
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	1
Strategic culture as a meaning-making system: towards a social semiotic account of multimodal cultural constraints in international relations	1
Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism	1
INT volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility	1
The everyday emotional lives of aid workers: how humanitarian anxiety gets in the way of meaningful local participation	1