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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice	17
The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya	17
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	14
Best Review Prize 2022	13
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	12
A trans-scalar approach to peacebuilding and transitional justice: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo	11
When hostility is a norm in International Relations: Emotional deviants and internal enemies in populist media discourse	11
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	10
Machine guardians: The Terminator, AI narratives and US regulatory discourse on lethal autonomous weapons systems	9
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	9
Rebuilding Mosul: Public opinion on foreign-led heritage reconstruction	8
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	8
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	7
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	7
The production and performance of status: Behind the scenes of an international summit	7
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	7
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	6
Normative power at its unlikeliest: EU democratic norms and security service reform in Ukraine	6
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	6
Seeking ontological security through thick narratives: Syrian civil war, ontological insecurity, and narratives	6
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
What makes strategic narrative efficient: Ukraine on Russian e-news platforms	6
Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy	5
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	5
Trusting neighbours? Public perceptions on civil defence cooperation across the Nordics	5

When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	5
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	4
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	4
Contestation and norm change in whale and elephant conservation: Non-use or sustainable use?	4
Precarious multiplicity: France, ‘foreign fighters’ and the containment of difference	4
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	4
Who performs better? A comparative analysis of problem-solving effectiveness and legitimacy attributions to international organizations	4
Legacies of war: Syrian narratives of conflict and visions of peace	4
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	4
‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’: Humour and the (geo) political limits of vicarious war	4
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	4
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	3
Constitutional inclusion in divided societies: Conceptual choices, practical dilemmas and the contribution of the grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	3
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	3
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	3
Reciprocal institutional visibility: Youth, peace and security and ‘inclusive’ agendas at the United Nations	3
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	3
Trust in artificial intelligence: Producing ontological security through governmental visions	3
War-related victimization and social distance toward others: Evidence following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine	3
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	3
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	2
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	2
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	2
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	2
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	2
Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: Militia mobilization and violence in Iraq	2
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	2
In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019	2
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	2
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	2
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	2
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	2
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	2
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	2
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Gaza and the failure of atrocity prevention: Placing the responsibility to protect on stronger cosmopolitan foundations	1
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	1
Whither European diplomacy? Long-term trends and the impact of the Lisbon Treaty	1
Gendering the military past: Understanding heritage and security from a feminist perspective	1
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School	1
Corrigendum: Delivering output and struggling for change: Tacit activism among professional transitional justice work in Sierra Leone and Kenya	1
When international rituals go wrong: How ritual failure undermines peaceful change in NATO	1
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	1
Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
A superhero or an incompetent? Representations of international mediators in local cultural products	1

Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy	1
Best Review Prize 2020 – Cooperation and Conflict	1