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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Strategic intimacy in international security: The relational politics of security assistance	28
The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations	21
Explaining disciplinary heterogeneity in Nordic War/Military Studies	19
Rules of recognition? Explaining diplomatic representation since the Congress of Vienna	18
Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19	17
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than others?	15
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020	15
Transformative securitization: Rethinking the Copenhagen School in light of COVID-19, climate change, and the war in Ukraine	12
Theorizing conflict opponent noncompliance from ceasefire monitoring	12
Securitization as a context-changing speech act	12
From policy to practice: How NATO joined forces with NGOs for the protection of civilians	12
Sixty years of Nordic International Relations	12
Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations	11
Pragmatist Power Europe: Resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis	11
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community	11
The reality and power of international law: Georg Schwarzenberger’s forgotten theory of International Relations	11
Capitalising on virtue: Global climate politics and the life cycle of status symbols	11
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis	11
Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times	10
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations	10
Re-conceptualizing triangular coercion in International Relations	10
Historical IR and the promise of renewed dialogue between IR and history	10
Order and justice in ontological security studies	10
From trust to trusting: Bringing a practice perspective to bear on trust research in International Relations	9
The irony of prestige: Status-seeking as rational choice	9

Constructing low tension: The role of experts and narratives in the case of Greenland	8
Moral guilt and small states’ status redemption: Thailand’s humanitarian treatment of prisoners of war during the Second World War	8
Editors’ note on the Best Review Prize 2022	8
The effect of asymmetric interdependence on the outcomes of military cooperation in the Sahel	8
‘Recognising Merit’ in late British colonial Cyprus	8
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment: A taxonomy	7
Securitization in the security community: Cooperation and conflict in the Nordic in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	7
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
When the digits don’t add up: Research strategies for post-digital peacebuilding	7
Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions	7
Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict	7
What do ‘local elites’ seek from EU security policies in the Sahel? Re-thinking the agency of non-European actors	6
Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants	6
UN peacekeeping upon deployment: Peacekeeping activities in theory and practice	6
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
Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden	5
The cost of dehumanization: How political rhetoric shapes public resistance to cooperation with adversaries	5
Operational claims, normative trade-offs, and the legitimation of international organizations	5
The emerging corporate turn in transitional justice	5
Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter	5
Introduction to the twentieth anniversary special issue on normative power in the planetary organic crisis	5