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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	17
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	15
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	14
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	14
Bringing the climate into existence	12
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	12
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period	11
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	11
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition	11
International/inter-carbonic relations	11
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	10
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	9
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	9
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	9
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	9
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	9
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	9
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	8
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	7
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	7
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	7
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	7
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	7
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	7
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	6

COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	6
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	6
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	6
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	6
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	6
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	6
Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order	6
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	5
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	5
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	4
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	4
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	4
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	4
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	4
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	4
Saudi Arabia’s costly war in Yemen: a neoclassical realist theory of overbalancing	4
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	4
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	4
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	4
Reversing climate leadership: an ethnographic account of the European Union’s U-turn on loss and damage at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh	4
Counterinsurgency in (un)changing times? Colonialism, hearts and minds, and the war on terror	3
Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case	3
‘We watched his whole life unfold. . .Then you watch the death’: drone tactics, operator trauma, and hidden human costs of contemporary wartime	3
Fashion’s diplomatic role: an instrument of French prestige-based commercial diplomacy, 1960s–1970s	3
The world is upside down: seeing IR from below	3
IR, climate politics, and change: opportunities for productive engagement?	3
When contestation legitimizes: the norm of climate change action and the US contesting the Paris Agreement	3
Communicative power as a new ideal type in international relations	3
Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I	3
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
Animalising International Relations	3
Public intellectual and the prison of theory: John J. Mearsheimer	3
The ‘bad’ pasts of ‘good’ norms: explaining the opium ban through the postcolonial lens	3
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War	3
Educating the United States on the ‘China threat’	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
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?	3
Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine	3
Wartime, professional military education, and politics	3
UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise	2
Invitation games and the politics of joining US-led coalition warfare: a small state perspective	2
Home and the world: the legal imagination of Martti Koskenniemi	2
Infrastructural power in foreign policy: conceptualising states’ efforts to mobilise non-state actors	2
From subjects to objects: honor flights and US ontological insecurity	2
Globalising the ‘war on terror’? An analysis of 36 countries	2

A threshold account of last resort in the ethics of war	2
Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban	2
Back from the dead: the ecology of IR	2
Parliamentarizing war: explaining legislative votes on Canadian military deployments	2
Middle powers and the evolution of the outer space regime: an analysis of Latin American contributions in the UN	2
Species level threat: when security goes to the birds	2