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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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	15
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	14
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	14
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	13
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	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	10
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	10
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	10
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	9
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of 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
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	9
Order and justice in ontological security studies	8
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	8
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	8
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	7
Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations	7
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	7
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	7
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	6
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	6
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”	6

Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	6
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	6
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	6
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	6
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	6
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	5
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	5
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	5
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	4
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	4
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	4
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	4
Intersectional justice and normative power in the planetary organic crisis	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
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	4