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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconstructing neoclassical realism: a transitive approach	17
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order	10
Obama and the use of force: a discursive institutionalist analysis of Libya and Syria	9
Role conflict in International Relations: the case of Indonesia’s regional and global engagements	9
International crisis in the midst of civil war	9
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban	8
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	8
Interventionist or internationalist? Coercion, self-determination, and humanitarianism in Third World practice	8
Foreign policy change as rhetorical politics: domestic-regional constellation of Global South states	8
Emotion norm violations in small communities: The Carter-Brezhnev hotline correspondence	7
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	7
Varieties of international reconciliation: the configuration of interest and reflection after conflict	6
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade	6
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	6
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	6
Transforming epistemological disconnection from the more-than-human world: (inter)nodes of ecologically attuned ways of knowing	6
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	5
Comparing Chinese and EU trade agreement strategies: lessons for normative power Europe?	5
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	5
Sovereignty and trading states: denuclearization in Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and Ukraine	5
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	5
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	4

Shrinking planet, expanding imaginary: the imperial press system and the idea of Greater Britain	4
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	4
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	4
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	4
Outer space and the idea of the global commons	4
A theory’s time perspectives: contributing to a theory’s inadequacy	4
Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing	3
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	3
Bringing the climate into existence	3
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	3
Strength born of weakness: the advantages of open maritime polities in multipolar international systems	3
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors	3
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	3
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise	3
A gendered analysis of US decline: a cautionary tale	3
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	3
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	3
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	3
Assemblages of conflict termination: popular culture, global politics and the end of wars	3
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	2
Eurocentrism and the constraints in alternative knowledge production: the case of Pakistani international relations	2
Covid-19: crisis, emotional governance and populist fantasy narratives	2
Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics: warfare by other memes	2
International/inter-carbonic relations	2
After the end of the world? Rethinking temporalities of critique and affirmation in the Anthropocene	2
Imagined communities: from subjecthood to nationality in the British Atlantic	2
King in the North: evaluating the status recognition and performance of the Scandinavian countries	2
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	2
The statistical trilemma: built-in limitations of international economic statistics	2
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR	2
The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid	2
Bipartisanship on China in a polarized America	2
Strategic culture and competing visions for the EU’s Russia strategy: flexible accommodation, cooperative deterrence, and calibrated confrontation	2
The effect of expert recommendations on intergovernmental decision-making: North Korea, Iran, and non-proliferation sanctions in the Security Council	2
Embedded hegemony and the evolution of the United States’ structural power	2
The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly	2
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	2
Fit for purpose? Climate change, security and IR	2
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	2
Common concern for the global ecological commons: solidarity with future generations?	2
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	2
The race for best friendship in Sino-Gulf relations: fractured cooperation and conflict in times of strategic uncertainty	2
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	1
Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations	1
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	1
Global commons law: norms to safeguard the planet and humanity’s heritage	1
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	1
Domestic terrorism, incumbency, and legislative vote shares	1
Explaining Arctic peace: a human heritage perspective	1
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	1

Introduction: cooperation, conflict, and interaction in the global commons	1
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	1
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	1
Animalising International Relations	1
Ontological security as temporal security? The role of ‘significant historical others’ in world politics	1
The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations	1
The international turn in the study of the origins of late-19th-century imperialism: achievements, limits and new directions in the theory of uneven and combined development	1
Wartime, professional military education, and politics	1
Better for whom? Sanction type and the gendered consequences for women	1
At war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19	1
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	1
Generative decay: toward a politics of and for earth	1
Central Europe: bringing a forgotten realm to Global International Relations	1
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	1
Theorizing state stigmatization: A comparative perspective on South Africa and Israel	1
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	1
Dealing with guilt and shame in international politics	1
‘Broadening’ and ‘deepening’ collective security in times of health crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	1
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	1
Why Asian states cooperate in regional arrangements: Asian regionalism in comparative perspective	1