OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cooperation and Conflict 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	19
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	17
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	16
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	15
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	15
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	12
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	12
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	12
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	11
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	11
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	11
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	10
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	10
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	10
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	10
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	10
Order and justice in ontological security studies	9
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	9
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	9
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	8
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	8
Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations	8
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	7
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	7

From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	7
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	6
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	6
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	6
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	6
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	6
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	5
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	5
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	5
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	5
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	5
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	4
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	4
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	4
The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation	4
Recognizing reviewers, 2023–2024	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	4
Status symbols in world politics	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	4
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	4
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	3
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	3
The return of the Nordic voice at the United Nations	3
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	3
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	3
Becoming NATO brothers: A feminist analysis of how government officials in Finland and Sweden reconciled national identity with NATO membership	3
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	3
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies: Cooperation, male coalitions and the origins of multiplicity	2
Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: Militia mobilization and violence in Iraq	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	2
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	2
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region	2
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	2
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	2
Still leaders but less exceptional: The Nordic states and development assistance	2

Digging up crimes: Forensic perspectives on perpetrator-led exhumations	2
What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden	2
A parochial internationalization: Surveying the power and evolution of Nordic International Relations scholarship	2
Aristotle’s jihad: Persuasion and rhetoric in Islamic insurgencies	2
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar	2
Permanent neutrality: A systems-theoretical interpretation	2
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Resource mobilization in security partnerships: Explaining cooperation and coercion in the EU’s partnership with the African Union	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
Gendered icons and the war in Ukraine: The visual politics of Ukraine’s social media communication	1
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
Conflictualization: Theorizing how relations, societies, and issues come to be formed by the logic of conflict	1
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1
Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy	1
A superhero or an incompetent? Representations of international mediators in local cultural products	1
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
A processual framework for analysing liberal policy interventions in conflict contexts	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	1
Perceptions of Nordicness in Nordic International Relations: A review of 60 years of research in Cooperation and Conflict	1
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	1
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	1
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	1
In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019	1
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1