OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cooperation and Conflict is 4. 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
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	7
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
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
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