OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Telos is 0. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The New Social Media and the Glory: For a Theological-Political Criticism of the Functioning of Contemporary Liberal Democracies	3
Populism in Venezuela: The Nature of Chavismo	1
Supranational Governance and the Problem of the “Dignified Constitution”	1
Natural Law and Unalienable Rights	1
Canceling Israel?	1
January 6, 2021: Another Day That Will Live in Infamy?	1
Konstantin Krylov’s Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West	1
The Curious Case of Islamic Reform: Why the Concept of Holy Violence Remains Disputed and How Nonviolent Islamism Is More Than Problematic	0
The Antinomies of Refugee Reason	0
Human Rights Practice and Natural Law	0
The Clash of Civilization and World Community: The West and China	0
Toward a Post-Critical Public Sphere in Germany and the United States	0
“With Desire I Have Desired”: Enjoying the Face of the Other as Political Theology: John Caputo and Dorothy Day Situating Hospitality as Divine Encounter	0
Solitaire/Solidaire: Camus, Contemplation, and the Vita Mixta	0
“China and the West” as Lore and Lure	0
Dignity and Human Rights: Aspirations and Challenges in an Age of Political Divisions, Distrust, and AI	0
Dialogues	0
Constituting the Nation in Theodor Fontane’s Vor dem Sturm	0
Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt	0
Three Rival Versions of Monetary Enquiry: The Ideologies of Money	0
A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis	0
Elham Manea’s The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism: An Indispensable Contribution to Our Understanding of a Complex Phenomenon	0
On the Spectacles of Market Society	0
The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings	0
Of Civil Wars and Where They Lead: Some Reflections	0

Three Decades of Civil War in the United States: “Don’t Tread on Me”	0
Speaking B.S. to Truth: The Public Sphere in the Age of Trump	0
Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Its Relations with World Literature	0
Contra Originalism: The Elusive Text	0
The Dark Enlightenment and the Anthropocene: Readings from the Book of Third Nature as Political Theology	0
Turmoil in Egypt: Faith, Nationalism, and the Apparent Inadequacies of Liberalism	0
Comfort in Rootlessness	0
Introduction	0
The Forms of War after 1945: From a World of “Great Wars” to a Planet for “Special Military Operations”	0
We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’sHistory of SexualityVolume 1 Revisited	0
A Genuine Refutation? A Response to Gabriel Rockhill’s “Foucault: The Faux Radical“	0
Constitutional Origins of Ethnic Nationalism: Cultural Aporia of a Nation-State	0
Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology	0
“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations	0
The Confluence of Western Monotheism and Eastern Buddhism as a Potent Force for World Peace	0
The World Said Built	0
Welcome to the Machine: AI, Existential Risk, and the Iron Cage of Modernity	0
After Desire: Foucault’s Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age	0
Introduction	0
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Rise of the Nation-State	0
Thomas Carlyle’s Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism	0
Human Rights and Nation-State Sovereignty	0
Civilizations, Autonomy, and War	0
The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen’s Women in Adorno’s Modernist Literary Theory	0
The Invisible Hand of the Chinese Communist Party	0
Afghanistan: Biden and Trump—the Same Cowardice	0
The Second Coming of theTianxiaEmpire?A Theopolitical Interpretation of the (Coming) Sino-Taiwan War	0
Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch	0
Bleeding Ukraine	0
Law and Representation: Observations from an American Constitutionalist	0
The City in Flux: Toward an Urban Topology of Hong Kong Cinema	0
Doing Western Studies in China: Its Nature and Methods	0
Proteus’s Image	0
The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road	0
In Memoriam: Fred Siegel	0
Paris Centrifuge: Cléo de 5 à 7 in Black and White, or: The Ills of Colonialism	0
The Burdens of Love and Time	0
The Closing of the American Public Sphere	0
Trump l’Oeil: Ceci N’est Pas un Coup d’État	0
Toward a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: A Perspective to Compare China and the West	0
Toward a Theopolitical of the “International”	0
“Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History	0
Disputations from the Damaged City: Spike Lee’s If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise (2010) and the Taking Place of Civil Society in Post-Katrina New Orleans	0
Afghanistan: It Wasn’t a War—That’s Why We Lost It	0
Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today	0
On the Question of Moderate Islam	0
Escape from Civilization’s Predicaments	0
The U.S. Failure in Afghanistan and the Future of World Order	0
Renewing the West’s Unique Universalism	0
Effective Altruism in between Right-Wing and Left-Wing Anarchisms	0

You and What Army? The Moral Ghost in the U.S. Security Machine	0
Introduction	0
Horizontality vs. Verticality: New Readings in the Understanding of Religion and the Organizing of Politics	0
Decentering the “West” and “China” in China–West Comparison	0
Introduction: The Modern City in World Cinema	0
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory	0
Notes on Ideology, International Order, and Foreign Policy	0
The Savage Savants	0
Torches, Pitchforks, Smartphones, and Mass Delusion: An American Insurrection	0
The “Mythological Machine” of Antisemitism: The Recycling of False Accusations against Jews in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	0
Family, Tragedy, Democracy, and Populism: The Exchange between Jessica Benjamin and Christopher Lasch	0
Dereliction of Duty: How the Retreat from Afghanistan Accelerates the Self-Erosion of the West	0
Nationality of Food: Cultural Politics on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Museums	0
Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”	0
Learning from Defeat: Sadik al-Azm and the Arab Defeat in 1967	0
Ukraine and World Order: Today’s Scramble for Eurasia	0
Toward a Democratic Theory of Emergency Medical Services: Solidarity, Sovereignty, Temporality	0
The Kyoto School’s Wartime Philosophy of a Multipolar World	0
Third Term Comparison	0
Introduction	0
Contemplation in a Restless Age: Byung-Chul Han on Ritual	0
The Polemics of China’s Counter Cosmopolitanism	0
Ecocritique in the Anthropocene	0
Servants of the People: Populism, Nationalism, State-Building, and Virtual Reality in Contemporary Ukraine	0
Cultural Self-Confidence and Constellated Community: An Extended Discussion of Some Speeches by Xi Jinping	0
Anticipation, Social Theory, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves	0
Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society	0
The Underlying Unity of the American People	0
Failed Statecraft: The United States in Afghanistan	0
Introduction	0
Introduction	0
Within an American Grain	0
Introduction	0
Reinventing the Humanities	0
Xi Jinping’s Political Model and the Typology of Communist Regimes: An Ideological Approach	0
The End of Affirmative Action Will Help Blacks and Hispanics	0
Fear and Loathing in São Paulo: Slum Metaphysics in the “Coffin Joe” Triptych (1964–2008)	0
Is the Parish Church Worth Saving?	0
From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective	0
The Place of Truth at the University	0
The Changing Public Sphere in America: The Fragility of Civic Awareness, Common Community, and Electoral Democracy Today	0
The Early Christian Origins of Secularization	0
Hannah Arendt, Thinking, Metaphor	0
From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther	0
Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?	0
America’s New Civil War	0
Introduction	0
Introduction	0
Restoring and Reimagining Socialist-Built Cities: Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Third Front Trilogy”	0
A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shūsaku Endō, and Global IR	0
The Consequences of Afghanistan: Comments on Girard	0
Can the Precariat Be Organized?: The Gig Economy, Worksite Dispersion, and the Challenge of Mutual Aid	0
Imbuing Liberalism with Lost Spirit: Timothy Stacey	0
China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison	0
The Second American Civil War Is Not Taking Place	0
Diversity and the End of Deference	0
The City in Early Alternative Arab Cinema	0
Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging	0
Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021: Blows against the Empire of Bases	0
For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies ofSFFA v. Harvard	0
Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right	0
Self-Hating Nazis	0
Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights	0
Empire, State, Nation: Glory to Ukraine	0
From Kant to Krupp—and Kiev: Vladimir Ern on Kantianism as a Source of War, 1914 and Today	0
Locations of China in World Literature	0
Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West’s Empire of Secularization	0
Afghanistan, “We Hardly Knew Ye”: Why the Lessons of Vietnam Were Not Learned	0
Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”	0
The Politics of Belonging: How “Save the Parish” Is Challenging Church and State	0
The Path Least Traveled: An Alternative to Current Critiques of Neoliberalism	0
A Professional-Managerial Imperium: The National Security State and American Power	0
China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order	0
Tolerance as Suppressed Disapproval	0
Critical Theory in the Flesh: Adorno and Foucault in San Francisco	0
The Commission on Unalienable Rights: Where Do We Go from Here?	0
Introduction	0
The Intrusion of Slavery into the Time of Schmitt and Shakespeare	0