OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Relations is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Worlding beyond ‘the’ ‘end’ of ‘the world’: white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms	57
The nexus of populism and foreign policy: The case of Latin America	43
Internet of Things, cybersecurity and governing wicked problems: learning from climate change governance	17
The discourse and aesthetics of populism as securitisation style	12
Marxism, coloniality and ontological assumptions	12
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations	9
Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage	8
On the concept of international disorder	8
‘We are, by nature, a tolerant people’: Securitisation and counter-securitisation in UK migration politics	8
From geopolitics to geotechnics: global futures in the shadow of automation, cunning machines, and human speciation	8
Climate science, the politics of climate change and futures of IR	7
Keeping a Promise: Roles, Audiences and Credibility in International Relations	7
Outer space and the idea of the global commons	7
Separatists, state subjectivity, and fundamental ontological (in)security in international relations	7
The slave, the migrant and the ontological topographies of the international	7
Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics	6
‘A presumption of trust’ in international society	6
Realism and great power subversion	6
Multiplicity, hybridity and normativity: disputes about the UN convention against corruption in Germany	6
China’s challenge to the global commons: compliance, contestation, and subversion in the maritime and cyber domains	5
Resilience to crisis and resistance to change: a comparative analysis of the determinants of crisis outcomes in Latin American regional organisations	5
After the deluge: new universalism and postcolonial difference	5
Compensating for limitations in domestic output performance? Member state delegation of policy competencies to regional international organizations	5
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order	5
Introduction: cooperation, conflict, and interaction in the global commons	4

Internal relations in global capitalism	4
‘Acting under Chapter 7’: rhetorical entrapment, rhetorical hollowing, and the authorization of force in the UN Security Council, 1995–2017	4
Realist theories in search of realists: The failure in Europe to advance realist theory	4
Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	4
Better for whom? Sanction type and the gendered consequences for women	3
From the ‘Open door’ policy to the EU-Turkey deal: Media framings of German policy changes during the EU refugee ‘crisis’	3
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Muddying the waters: migration management in the global commons	3
South-South cooperation and foreign policy: Challenges and dilemmas in the perception of Brazilian diplomats	3
Selective norm promotion in international development assistance: the drivers of naming and shaming advocacy among European non-governmental development organisations	3
A contestation of nuclear ontologies: resisting nuclearism and reimagining the politics of nuclear disarmament	3
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly	3
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	3
At war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19	2
Migration and the politics of ‘the human’: confronting the privileged subjects of IR	2
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	2
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	2
Polycentricity and framing battles in the creation of regional norms on violence against women	2
Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of international relations: A sketch	2
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	2
Uneven worlds of hegemony: Towards a discursive ontology of societal multiplicity	2
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	2
Common concern for the global ecological commons: solidarity with future generations?	2
Wartime in the 21st century	2
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	2
Facing human interconnections: thinking International Relations into the future	2
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	2
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	2
Gate-opening political economy	2
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	2
War and strange non-death of neoliberalism: The military foundations of modern economic ideologies	2
Illiberal and irrational? Trump and the challenge of liberal modernity in US foreign policy	2
Why we should see international law as a structure: Unpicking international law’s ontology and agency	2
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	2
Western populism and liberal order: a reflection on ‘structural liberalism’ and the resilience of Western liberal order	1
Selective humanitarians: how region and conflict perception drive military interventions in intrastate crises	1
Neorealism, neoclassical realism and the problem(s) of history	1
Theorizing state stigmatization: A comparative perspective on South Africa and Israel	1
Imagined communities: from subjecthood to nationality in the British Atlantic	1
The limits of power: Knowledge, ethics, and foreign policy in Hans J. Morgenthau’s international theory	1
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	1
International/inter-carbonic relations	1
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries	1
Trusted intermediaries: Macmillan, Kennedy and their ambassadors	1
Follow the bodies: Global capitalism, global war, global crisis and feminist IPE	1
Dealing with guilt and shame in international politics	1
Animalising International Relations	1
Faith abroad: how religion shapes Trump administration’s foreign policy	1
Why Asian states cooperate in regional arrangements: Asian regionalism in comparative perspective	1

Sovereignty and trading states: denuclearization in Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Ukraine	1
Chasing gender equality norms: the robustness of sexual and reproductive health and rights	1
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	1
The international system and the Syrian civil war	1
Exercising status recognition sensibility: the empathic de-escalation of the Sino-Indian 1998 status dilemma	1
The drone threat to just war theory: responding to Braun	1
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	1
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	1
The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics	1
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives	1
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	1
Comparing Chinese and EU trade agreement strategies: lessons for normative power Europe?	1
The liturgy of triumph: victory culture, popular rituals, and the US way of wartiming	1
Historical materialism and international studies: Theorising the politics of struggle in the everyday world	1
Peace research meets implementation studies: The role of implementing actors	1
Drones are no mala in se: responding to Norris	1