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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Global governance in the age of epistemic authority	19
Rule and resistance in global governance	17
Change in or of global governance?	17
Beyond institutionalism: toward a transformed global governance theory	16
Locating (new) materialist characters and processes in global governance	13
Governance by Other Means: Rankings as Regulatory Systems	13
Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior	11
The false promise of global IR: exposing the paradox of dependent development	8
On the role of contestations, the power of reflexive authority, and legitimation problems in the global political system	8
A combinatorial theory of institutional invention	7
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part I: burdens of proof and uncomfortable facts	7
The global politics paradigm: guide to the future or only the recent past?	7
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: the entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth	7
Empire and insurgency: the politics of truth in Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology	7
Our place in the universe: Alexander Wendt and quantum mechanics	7
Bewitching the world: remarks on ‘Inter-disciplinarity, the epistemological ideal of incontrovertible foundations, and the problem of praxis’	7
Politics asRealitätsprinzipin the debate on constitutions and fragmented orders: remarks ‘On constitutions and fragmented orders’	7
The lived body, everyday and generative powers of war: toward an embodied ontology of war as experience	6
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part II: critics in the PITs	6
The everyday emotional lives of aid workers: how humanitarian anxiety gets in the way of meaningful local participation	6
Meditating deformalization: remarks on ‘Of experts, helpers, and enthusiasts’	5
Global international relations and the essentialism trap	5
Politics and theory of global governance	5
Otherwise than quantum	5
Sense and sensibility or: remarks on the ‘bounds of (non)sense’	5

Meditating on rights and responsibility: remarks on ‘the limits and burdens of rights’	4
From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’	4
On engagement and distance in social analysis: a reply to my critics	4
On concepts, conceptions, and conceptors: remarks ‘On the concept of law’	4
Kenneth Waltz's approach to reading classic political theory and why it matters	4
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	4
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	4
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function: comments on Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science	4
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	3
Hope behind the critique of grand narratives of collective salvation: remarks on ‘The power of metaphors and narratives’	3
Unsettling times for human rights: remarks on ‘The politics of rights’	3
Conceptualizing interstate cooperation	3
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics	3
Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism	2
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	2
Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization	2
In the midst of theoryandpractice: a foreword	2
Representants and international orders	2
Walter Lippmann, emotion, and the history of international theory	1
A new philosophy for international legal skepticism?	1
Rethinking ‘middle powers’ as a category of practice: stratification, ambiguity, and power	1
Property and international relations: lessons from Locke on anarchy and sovereignty	1
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's membership in UNESCO	1
Globalizing the international: Bull's metaphysics of order	1
Threats to state survival as emergencies in international law	1
Football's contribution to international order: the ludic and festive reproduction of international society by world societal actors	1
Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India	1
Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology	1
Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception	1
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	1
On the right to diplomacy: historicizing and theorizing delegation and exclusion at the United Nations	1
The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia	1
The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45	1
Quo Vadis?On the role of just peacewithinjust war	1
Towards a minimal conception of Transitional Justice	1
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	1
Symposium: Authority, legitimacy, and contestation in global governance	1
A field day with Fritz: introduction to the Symposium	1