OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Relations is 2. 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
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	26
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	17
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	16
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	15
International/inter-carbonic relations	14
Bringing the climate into existence	14
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition	14
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period	14
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	13
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	13
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	11
Reassessing the Iran Nuclear Deal: Obama’s Foreign Policy Learning	11
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	11
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	11
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	10
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	10
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	9
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	9
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	8
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	8
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	8
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	8
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	7
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	7
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	6

Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order	6
COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	6
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	6
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	6
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	6
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	6
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	5
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	5
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	5
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	5
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	5
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	5
Populist foreign politics: the substitution of politics for interests	5
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	5
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	5
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	5
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	4
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War	4
Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I	4
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	4
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	4
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations	4
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	4
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	4
Educating the United States on the ‘China threat’	4
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	3
Status-quo enhancing versus status-quo challenging change in global economic governance: the case of China in finance and trade	3
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	3
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine	3
Interventions of post-colonial states in the normative structure of world politics: the case of Iran and the norm of democracy	3
The struggle for a liberal world order transformations, learning processes and the global challenges of the long 20th century	3
Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case	3
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	3
On misperceptions and misunderstandings: rhetoric, global disorder, and the Global South	3
‘We watched his whole life unfold. . .Then you watch the death’: drone tactics, operator trauma, and hidden human costs of contemporary wartime	3
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	3
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	3
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	3
Species level threat: when security goes to the birds	2
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	2
Can the great powers reorder war? The Dice of Mars and disordering of the ‘liberal’ war regime	2
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective	2
Wartime, professional military education, and politics	2
When contestation legitimizes: the norm of climate change action and the US contesting the Paris Agreement	2
Middle powers and the evolution of the outer space regime: an analysis of Latin American contributions in the UN	2
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	2
Animalising International Relations	2

Public intellectual and the prison of theory: John J. Mearsheimer	2
A threshold account of last resort in the ethics of war	2