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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	35
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	21
The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations	17
Forum: Gender, race, colonialism, and international practice theory	14
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	14
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	14
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	14
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	13
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis	13
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	13
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	13
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	13
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	12
Historical IR and the promise of renewed dialogue between IR and history	12
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	12
Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times	12
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	12
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	11
Order and justice in ontological security studies	11
Moral guilt and small states’ status redemption: Thailand’s humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war during the Second World War	10
From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	10
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	10
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	9
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	8
Raising children under fire: Civilian agency and intergenerational transmission in Colombia, Northern Ireland and Lebanon	7

An emotions agenda for peace: Connections beyond feelings, power beyond violence	7
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	7
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	7
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	7
Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	7
The gift as diplomatic theory	6
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	6
From rupture to meaning: Social trauma, state narratives, and everyday experiences of war in Ukraine	6
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	6
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	6
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	6
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	6
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
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
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
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
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	4
Annapolis and the Abbas-Olmert direct negotiations: A critical analysis	4
Recognizing reviewers, 2023–2024	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
How do the emotional and embodied experiences of international interveners influence their understanding and practice of peacebuilding?	4
Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains	4
Navigating technological change: Future imaginaries and everyday practices in world politics	4
Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine	4
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	4
Postcolonial embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict in the UN–Arria Formula Meeting	4
State commitments and inhumane conventional weapons: An explanatory analysis of treaty ratification	4
Hope and dispossession: Strange bedfellows in Indigenous-state relations	4