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 2021-08-01 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
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	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
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	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
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	10
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
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	9
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	8
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	7
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	7
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
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
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
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
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
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