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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	16
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	13
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	12
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	11
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	11
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	10
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	10
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	10
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	10
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	9
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	8
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	8
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	7
‘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
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya	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	5

Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	5
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	5
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	4
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	4
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	4
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	4
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	4
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	4
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	4
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	3
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	3
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	3
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	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
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	2
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
Driving liberal change? Global performance indices as a system of normative stratification in liberal international order	2
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region	2
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	2
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	2
Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: Militia mobilization and violence in Iraq	2
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	2
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	2
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	2
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies: Cooperation, male coalitions and the origins of multiplicity	2
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	2
Contestation and norm change in whale and elephant conservation: Non-use or sustainable use?	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	2
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	2
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	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
In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019	1
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1

Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	1