OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign Direct Investments’ Impact on Economic Growth in Serbia	15
The Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy	14
Geopolitical Visions in Turkish Foreign Policy	12
The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Quality in Western Balkan Countries	11
When local becomes general: Turkey's 31 March 2019 elections and its implications for dynamics of polarization and sustainability of competitive authoritarianism	11
Turkish Populist Nationalism in Transnational Space: Explaining Diaspora Voting Behaviour in Homeland Elections	11
Clientelism and the Abuse of Power in the Western Balkans	11
The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 2009–2015	10
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies	8
Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership	7
The Balkan Paradox: Are Wages and Labour Productivity Significant Determinants of FDI Inflows?	7
The Transformation of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Democratic Movement	7
China and New Middle East	6
Russian Surrogate Warfare in Ukraine and Syria: Understanding the Utility of Militias and Private Military Companies	6
Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece	6
Turkey’s Kurdish Question in the Era of Neoliberalism	5
The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey	5
Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey	5
Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation	5
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean	5
The Political Economy of Turkish Foreign Policy	5
Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy	5
Neo-liberal Globalization and Income Inequality: Panel Data Evidence from OECD and Western Balkan Countries	4
The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria	4
Turkey’s Foreign Aid to Africa: An Analysis of the Post-July 15 Era	4

Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium	4
‘Everyone is a Possibility’: Messy Networks of Refugees from Syria in Urfa, Turkey	4
The Impact of AKP’s Foreign Policy on the Capital Accumulation Process in Turkey	4
Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict	4
Interdependence between Gross Capital Formation, Public Expenditure on R&D and Innovation in Turkey	4
Religious vs. Secular Discourse and the Change of Political Power in Montenegro	3
The 2018 ‘Construction Peace’ in Turkey: A Neoliberal Inclusion or Populist Electoral Exchange?	3
Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside	3
In Byron’s Footsteps, through Byron’s Eyes: Literary Tourism and ‘Imagined Geographies’ of Southern Albania	3
The Western Balkans and Geopolitics: Leveraging the European Union and China	3
Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition	3
Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance	3
Russia and the New Middle East	3
Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance	3
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks	3
The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration	3
Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East	3
Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid	2
2023 Elections in Turkey within Global Context: Right Wing Populism in the Era of Global Shift	2
Betting on Dark Literary Tourism: Exploratory Research on Sulina Town (Romania)	2
The ‘New Normal’ in Migration Management in Serbia in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis	2
The Fate of Armenian and Greek Properties in the Post-First World War Period	2
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation	2
Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship	2
Causes of the Second Karabakh War: Analysis of the Positions and the Strength and Weakness of Armenia and Azerbaijan	2
Another “Third Way” to Narrate the Existing Alliances in the Middle East: Turkey-Qatar, Saudi Arabia-UAE, and Iran-Syria	2
China’s Friendly Cooperative Relations with Tunisia in the Age of the New Silk Road Initiative	2
‘Native Foreigners’ of Turkey: The Non-Muslim Minority as An Instantiation of Homo Sacer	2
Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders	2
On National Anniversaries: Greece, 1821-2021	2
Transitional Shelters on a Policy Landslide – Experiencing Displacement on the Frontline in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Globalisation and the struggle over hegemony in a peripheral context: Turkey’s membership bid to the European Union	2
An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations	2
Investor-State Disputes in Balkan, post-Soviet Union and Near and Middle East Countries: An Empirical Appraisal	2
Serbia in Light of the Global Recomposition	2
A Contemporary Analysis of Intra-Party Democracy in Turkey’s Political Parties	2
The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia	2
The Changing Security Landscape in South-Eastern Mediterranean: Assessing Turkey’s Strategies as a Rising Power	2
Albanian Returned Asylum-Seekers: Failures, Successes and What Can Be Achieved in a Short Time	2
Encountering the Age of Civility: The Late Ottoman Etiquette Literature (1890–1918)	2
The Persian Gulf-Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor: Goals and Constraints	2
The New Regime of Free Trade and Transnational Capital in Turkey	2
Fear, Superiority, Self-Identification and Rejection: Turks’ Different Attitudes to Europe since the Late Ottoman Era	2