OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Theory is 6. 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
Anxiety, time, and ontological security's third-image potential	27
Choosing low-cost institutions in global governance	27
Psychoanalysis, cultures of anarchy, and ontological insecurity	26
‘Turning’ everywhere in IR: on the sociological underpinnings of the field's proliferating turns	18
Fully-automated liberalism? Blockchain technology and international cooperation in an anarchic world	18
Change in or of global governance?	16
Securityquaexistential surviving (while becoming otherwise) through performative leaps of faith	16
Rule and resistance in global governance	16
Global governance in the age of epistemic authority	15
Beyond institutionalism: toward a transformed global governance theory	13
Governance by Other Means: Rankings as Regulatory Systems	12
Locating (new) materialist characters and processes in global governance	12
Protean power: a second look	10
Sentimental politics or structural injustice? The ambivalence of emotions for political responsibility	10
Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior	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
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
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
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
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