OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cooperation and Conflict is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	19
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	17
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	16
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	15
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	15
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	12
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	12
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	12
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	11
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	11
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	11
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
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	10
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	10
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	10
Order and justice in ontological security studies	9
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	9
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	9
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	8
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	8
Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations	8
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	7
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	7

From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	7
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	6
An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	6
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	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	6
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	6
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	5
Scandinavians on the world stage: Rethinking Scandinavian international involvement since the interwar period	5
The importance of being civilized: Opera houses as status symbols in International Relations	5
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	5
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	5
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	5
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	5