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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	14
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	13
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	13
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	12
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
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	10
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	10
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	10
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	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
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	8
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	7
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	7
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	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	5
The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya	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	5
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	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
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	5
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	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	4
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
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	4
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	4
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	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
Gendered labor: Appearance management and the unequal extraction of effort and time among ambassadors	3
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	3
Status symbols in world politics	3
Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace	3
Contestation and norm change in whale and elephant conservation: Non-use or sustainable use?	3
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
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
Uneven and combined desires: A psychological rethinking of societal multiplicity in world politics	3
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	3
Deterrence icons as status symbols: American forces in NATO’s eastern flank	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
Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: Militia mobilization and violence in Iraq	2
What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden	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
A genealogy of Swedish psychological defence: Information influence as a shifting problem for democratic governance	2
Normative power in the planetary organic crisis	2
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies: Cooperation, male coalitions and the origins of multiplicity	2
Aristotle’s jihad: Persuasion and rhetoric in Islamic insurgencies	2
Trembling city: Policing Freetown’s war-peace transition	2
Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump	2
Driving liberal change? Global performance indices as a system of normative stratification in liberal international order	2
Securing the ‘great white shield’? Climate change, Arctic security and the geopolitics of solar geoengineering	2
Imaging welcome culture: Visual border politics and Holocaust postmemory during Germany’s long summer of migration	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
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar	1
Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama	1
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s World Statehood: The Future of World Politics	1

Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma	1
The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols	1
In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019	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
Making local knowledge: Ethnographic authority in the German intervention in Afghanistan	1
The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace	1
Better not talk? A mixed-methods experimental analysis of avoiding sensitive issues in post-conflict settings	1
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace	1
Informal organizations over time: Why do member states increase delegation?	1
Holding the line: Austrian neutrality in the shadow of the war in Ukraine	1
How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives	1
Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda	1
A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region	1
Between dominance and inequality: The psychological roots of attitudes towards hierarchy in world politics	1
Corrigendum (Ditrych and Kucera)	1
When personalism matters: Nuclear latency and conflict propensity	1
Perceptions of Nordicness in Nordic International Relations: A review of 60 years of research in Cooperation and Conflict	1