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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The ethics of the international monetary system	50
Failing the state self: on the politics of state shame	27
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's membership in UNESCO	20
How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder	19
Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’	13
The spectre of statelessness	12
The many faces of sovereignty	11
Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity	11
The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity	11
‘The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies: scientific methodologies and their implications	11
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	11
Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile	10
Weighing responsibilities: the allocation of fair refugee quotas	8
Global international relations and the essentialism trap	8
Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation	8
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	7
The tripartite structure of critical international theory	6
Contesting clusters: a study of norm weaving in Pacific climate mobilities policies	6
Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology	6
Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics	5
Hype cycles or norm cascades? Making sense of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero	5
The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45	4
Brexit and the trust paradox of sovereigntist internationalism	4
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics	3
The scope of accountability of international organisations: the relevance of power, institutional structure, and salience	3

Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India	3
Confirming, suturing and transforming international recognition: the case of world heritage	2
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling	2
Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism	2
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance	2
From democratic peace theory to a Kantian critical cosmology of peace	2
INT volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Rethinking democracy in global network governance: norm polysemy, pluralism, and agonistic engagement	2
Strategic culture as a meaning-making system: towards a social semiotic account of multimodal cultural constraints in international relations	2
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	2
Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception	2
Reassurance versus coercive bargaining: barriers to cooperative signaling in international relations	2
Non-aggression pacts: context and explanation	2