OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 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
The Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy	15
Geopolitical Visions in Turkish Foreign Policy	13
Turkish Populist Nationalism in Transnational Space: Explaining Diaspora Voting Behaviour in Homeland Elections	13
When local becomes general: Turkey's 31 March 2019 elections and its implications for dynamics of polarization and sustainability of competitive authoritarianism	12
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies	8
Strictly Pragmatism?: Prospects for a Russian-Turkish Partnership	7
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
China and New Middle East	6
Revisionism and Resecuritization of Turkey's Middle East Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation	5
Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy	5
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean	5
Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey	5
The Political Economy of Turkish Foreign Policy	5
The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria	5
The Western Balkans and Geopolitics: Leveraging the European Union and China	4
The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration	4
Turkey’s Foreign Aid to Africa: An Analysis of the Post-July 15 Era	4
Neo-liberal Globalization and Income Inequality: Panel Data Evidence from OECD and Western Balkan Countries	4
Iran and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East: In Search of Equilibrium	4
Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside	4
Russia and the New Middle East	4
Religious vs. Secular Discourse and the Change of Political Power in Montenegro	4
Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict	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
Another “Third Way” to Narrate the Existing Alliances in the Middle East: Turkey-Qatar, Saudi Arabia-UAE, and Iran-Syria	3
The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey: Some Causes for Concern	3
Europe and the ‘New’ Middle East	3
Encountering the Age of Civility: The Late Ottoman Etiquette Literature (1890–1918)	3
In Byron’s Footsteps, through Byron’s Eyes: Literary Tourism and ‘Imagined Geographies’ of Southern Albania	3
The Changing Security Landscape in South-Eastern Mediterranean: Assessing Turkey’s Strategies as a Rising Power	3
Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance	3
Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance	3
Turkey’s Voting Preferences in the UN General Assembly During the AK Party Era as a Counterchallenge to Its ‘New’ Foreign Policy	3
Serbia in Light of the Global Recomposition	3
Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition	3
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South-South Cooperation	3
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks	3
The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia	2
The ‘New Normal’ in Migration Management in Serbia in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis	2
Albanian Returned Asylum-Seekers: Failures, Successes and What Can Be Achieved in a Short Time	2
Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship	2
The New Regime of Free Trade and Transnational Capital in Turkey	2
A Contemporary Analysis of Intra-Party Democracy in Turkey’s Political Parties	2
‘Native Foreigners’ of Turkey: The Non-Muslim Minority as An Instantiation of Homo Sacer	2
Constructing the ‘National Ideal’: The ‘Inclusive’ and ‘Exclusive’ Representations of Syrian Refugees in Turkish Print Media	2
Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders	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
Causes of the Second Karabakh War: Analysis of the Positions and the Strength and Weakness of Armenia and Azerbaijan	2
The Multiple Identities of the Middle East: A Case of Iraqi Turkmen Refugees in Turkey	2
2023 Elections in Turkey within Global Context: Right Wing Populism in the Era of Global Shift	2
The Fate of Armenian and Greek Properties in the Post-First World War Period	2
Betting on Dark Literary Tourism: Exploratory Research on Sulina Town (Romania)	2
On National Anniversaries: Greece, 1821-2021	2
The Persian Gulf-Black Sea International Transport and Transit Corridor: Goals and Constraints	2
An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations	2
China’s Friendly Cooperative Relations with Tunisia in the Age of the New Silk Road Initiative	2
Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid	2
Water, Sewage and Sanitation: Infrastructure Projects and Public Health in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire	1
Informal Application of Islamic Rules in Turkey: The Imposition by RTÜK of Islamic Ethics on Television Broadcasting	1
China and Türkiye’s Strategic Cooperation in the 21 ^st Century: A ‘Complex Role’ Prism	1
Russia and China in the Eastern Mediterranean: On Parallel Tracks?	1
Comprehending and Countering Hybrid Warfare Strategies by Utilizing the Principles of Sun Tzu	1
Summitry Diplomacy in Turkey–Africa Relations: Statements, (Non-)Accomplishments and Effectiveness	1
Exploring the Maritime Nexus in Turkey’s African Agenda	1
Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence	1
Marrying the Enemy? Turkish Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Public Debate over Mixed Marriages in the 1940s Turkish Press	1
The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	1
Turkish Foreign Policy in the Chaos of War, 1939-1945	1
A Déjà Vu All over Again? Identifying and Explaining ‘Change’ in Turkey’s Asia Policy	1
The New Challenges of the Western Balkan Banking Industry During Ongoing Global Crisis	1
Back to Basics: The Re-Securitization of Cyprus by Turkey After Crans Montana	1
Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles	1

Polar Silk Road Challenge to Sino-Egyptian Economic Relations in the Belt and Road Era	1
Sociocultural Conflicts and Ottoman Settlement Policies at the Balkan Wars	1
China’s Seaport Investment in the Mediterranean Region and EU’s Interrogative Approach	1
Out of Place? Making Sense of the Mismatch between the Post-Cold War Transition and the Yugoslav State Crisis	1
The Paradox of the New Great Game: Do Europe and China Need More Pipelines from Eurasia?	1
Islam and Politics in Turkey: Alliance and Disunion Between the Fethullah Gülen Movement and the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	1
Politics and Criminal Justice: Integrating Courts to Turkey’s Recent Kurdish Policy	1
(Exploring) the Impact of Turkey’s Embassies on Trade with sub-Saharan Africa	1
Between Europe and Asia: Narrow Spaces for Strategic Hedging in New Europe	1
Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authority	1
Do Wages Reflect Growth Productivity – Comparing the European East and West?	1
No Strings Attached: Understanding Turkey’s Arms Exports to Africa	1
Waiting Games: Taming Chance among Afghans in Greece	1
How the EU-induced Institutional Changes Facilitated Patronage over and Capture of Judiciary in North Macedonia	1
When Diplomats Lead to a War: The Role of the Turkish Diplomatic Bureaucracy in the Military Intervention in Cyprus	1
Culture of Insecurity and Production of Foreign Policy Crises: Turkey’s Sèvres Syndrome and Syrian Support for the PKK during the 1998 October Crisis	1
Autonomy and Control in the Gig Economy and Platform Work: Domestic and Home Repair Workers in Turkey	1
Digital age: the changes in economy, society, politics	1
Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War: Sectarian Perceptions and Positions	1