OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 3. 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
International crisis in the midst of civil war	9
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
Foreign policy change as rhetorical politics: domestic-regional constellation of Global South states	8
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
Rising Asian transactionalist players in the Middle East: deciphering the roles of China and India in the Persian Gulf	7
Emotion norm violations in small communities: The Carter-Brezhnev hotline correspondence	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
Disentangling populism and nationalism as discourses of foreign policy: the case of Greek foreign policy during the Eurozone crisis 2010-19	5
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
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
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
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
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