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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	18
A trans-scalar approach to peacebuilding and transitional justice: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	14
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	14
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	13
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	12
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	12
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	10
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	10
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	10
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	9
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	9
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	9
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	9
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	9
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	8
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	8
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	7
Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations	7
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	7
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	6
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	6
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	6

The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	6
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	6
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	6
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	5
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	5
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	5
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	4
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	4
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	4
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	3
The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation	3
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	3
Recognizing reviewers, 2023–2024	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	3
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	3
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	3
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	2
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	2
Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: Militia mobilization and violence in Iraq	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	2
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden	2
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	2
Becoming NATO brothers: A feminist analysis of how government officials in Finland and Sweden reconciled national identity with NATO membership	2
The return of the Nordic voice at the United Nations	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	1
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	1
Gendered icons and the war in Ukraine: The visual politics of Ukraine’s social media communication	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	1
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	1

Aristotle’s jihad: Persuasion and rhetoric in Islamic insurgencies	1
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	1
Driving liberal change? Global performance indices as a system of normative stratification in liberal international order	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	1
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar	1
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region	1
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	1
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	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
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1
Still leaders but less exceptional: The Nordic states and development assistance	1
A parochial internationalization: Surveying the power and evolution of Nordic International Relations scholarship	1
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies: Cooperation, male coalitions and the origins of multiplicity	1