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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	18
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	14
A trans-scalar approach to peacebuilding and transitional justice: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo	13
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	12
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	12
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	11
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	11
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	10
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
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in 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
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	8
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	7
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	7
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	6
Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations	6
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	6
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	5
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	5

What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	5
The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya	5
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	5
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	5
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	5
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	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
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on 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
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	4
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	3
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
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	3
The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation	3
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	3
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Wager upon wager: Assessing Iver B. Neumann’s contribution to International Relations	3
Interlocking peace processes: Between competing and complementing peacemaking efforts in interlocking conflicts	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
Driving liberal change? Global performance indices as a system of normative stratification in liberal international order	2
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	2
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	2
Contestation and norm change in whale and elephant conservation: Non-use or sustainable use?	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region	2
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	2
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	2
United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy	2
Does economic globalization promote civil peace in developing countries?	2
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	2
An inquiry into the EU’s role in global domination: Thinking normative power through the Frankfurt School	1
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019	1
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	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
Obliged tolerance: Power at the intersection of everyday peace and the intervention economy	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1

Climate institutions matter: The challenges of making gender-sensitive and inclusive climate policies	1
Resource mobilization in security partnerships: Explaining cooperation and coercion in the EU’s partnership with the African Union	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	1
A superhero or an incompetent? Representations of international mediators in local cultural products	1
Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
A processual framework for analysing liberal policy interventions in conflict contexts	1
Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy	1
Decolonising affect: Emotions and the politics of peace	1
Review of special issue on ‘IR, multiplicity and the problematique of difference’	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	1
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	1
Informal organizations over time: Why do member states increase delegation?	1