OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Theory 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics: thinking with and beyond Giddens	74
Integrating anxiety into international relations theory: Hobbes, existentialism, and ontological security	41
Anxiety, time, and agency	34
Choosing low-cost institutions in global governance	27
Anxiety, time, and ontological security's third-image potential	27
Psychoanalysis, cultures of anarchy, and ontological insecurity	26
Fully-automated liberalism? Blockchain technology and international cooperation in an anarchic world	18
‘Turning’ everywhere in IR: on the sociological underpinnings of the field's proliferating turns	18
Securityquaexistential surviving (while becoming otherwise) through performative leaps of faith	16
Rule and resistance in global governance	16
Change in or of global governance?	16
Global governance in the age of epistemic authority	15
Beyond institutionalism: toward a transformed global governance theory	13
Locating (new) materialist characters and processes in global governance	12
Governance by Other Means: Rankings as Regulatory Systems	12
Sentimental politics or structural injustice? The ambivalence of emotions for political responsibility	10
Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior	10
Protean power: a second look	10
Power, luck, and scholarly responsibility at the end of the world(s)	9
One-upmanship and putdowns: the aggressive use of interaction rituals in face-to-face diplomacy	8
Bewitching the world: remarks on ‘Inter-disciplinarity, the epistemological ideal of incontrovertible foundations, and the problem of praxis’	7
The global politics paradigm: guide to the future or only the recent past?	7
On the role of contestations, the power of reflexive authority, and legitimation problems in the global political system	7
The false promise of global IR: exposing the paradox of dependent development	7
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: the entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth	7

Irreparable ignorance, protean power, and economics	7
Politics asRealitätsprinzipin the debate on constitutions and fragmented orders: remarks ‘On constitutions and fragmented orders’	7
Empire and insurgency: the politics of truth in Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology	6
The everyday emotional lives of aid workers: how humanitarian anxiety gets in the way of meaningful local participation	6
Our place in the universe: Alexander Wendt and quantum mechanics	6
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part II: critics in the PITs	6
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part I: burdens of proof and uncomfortable facts	6
Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism	6
Levels, centers, and peripheries: the spatio-political structure of political systems	5
Sense and sensibility or: remarks on the ‘bounds of (non)sense’	5
Converging paths: bounded rationality, practice theory and the study of change in historical international relations	5
Control power as a special case of protean power: thoughts on Peter Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert'sProtean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics	5
International vs. area? The disciplinary-politics of knowledge-exchange between IR and Area Studies	5
Meditating deformalization: remarks on ‘Of experts, helpers, and enthusiasts’	5
Meditating on rights and responsibility: remarks on ‘the limits and burdens of rights’	4
Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better: IR theory, utopia, and a failure to (re)imagine failure	4
Politics and theory of global governance	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
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
Protean power as a plea for an open social ontology, non-efficient causal explanations, and cautious political practice	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
Otherwise than quantum	4
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function: comments on Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science	4
The lived body, everyday and generative powers of war: toward an embodied ontology of war as experience	3
Anxiety, fear, and ontological security in world politics	3
A combinatorial theory of institutional invention	3
Hope behind the critique of grand narratives of collective salvation: remarks on ‘The power of metaphors and narratives’	3
The case against international cooperation	3
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	3
Kenneth Waltz's approach to reading classic political theory and why it matters	3
Unsettling times for human rights: remarks on ‘The politics of rights’	3
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	2
In the midst of theoryandpractice: a foreword	2
Representants and international orders	2
Unknown effects of social innovations	2
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	2