OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Relations is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A neoclassical realist model of overconfidence and the Japan–Soviet Neutrality Pact in 1941	16
Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic	15
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
Is someone’s mercenary another’s contractor? American, British, and Russian private security companies in US and UK parliamentary debates	12
‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race	12
WHO and COVID-19: stress testing the boundary of science and politics	11
Mediated public diplomacy and securitisation theory: the US campaign against Chinese 5G in Brazil and Chile	11
Tech titans, cyber commons and the war in Ukraine: An incipient shift in international relations	11
Bringing the climate into existence	10
Fitting national interests with populist opportunities: intervention politics on the European radical right	10
International/inter-carbonic relations	10
The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face	9
Indigenous climate finance and the worlding of International Relations: climate justice in motion	9
Animals and diplomacy: on the prospect for interspecies diplomacy	9
Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations	8
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis	8
The Safety Paradox: Unknown Knowns, Ungrieved Grief, and Collective Agreements not to Know	7
Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries	7
The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy	7
The customer is always right? Flags of convenience and the assembling of maritime affairs	7
State of nature versus states as firms: reassessing the Waltzian analogy of structural realism	7
Global injustice and animals: towards a multispecies social connection model	7
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly	7
Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR	6

COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety	6
Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan	6
Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity	6
Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order	6
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR	5
Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order	5
Animals and the ethics of war: a call for an inclusive just-war theory	5
The Liberal International Ordering of crisis	5
Wartime in the 21st century	5
The post-hegemonic turn in humanitarian intervention: regional ownership and troubled great power management	5
Realism, reckless states, and natural selection	5
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes	4
Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime	4
Race, nation, empire? Historicising outward and inward-facing British nationalism	4
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics	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
When leaders disappoint: rejection and denial of leadership roles in international politics	4
Do leaders really matter? The failure of ambitions in Turkish foreign policy	4
Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution	4
A ‘continuing, imminent’ threat: the temporal frameworks enabling the US war on terrorism	4
Hyping emerging military technology: probing the causes and consequences of excessive expectations	4
Brazil’s pragmatic equidistance: hedging and the Second World War	4
The deterioration of South America’s security architecture: from cooperation to coexistence?	4