OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Review of International Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Military responses to COVID-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements	45
The Brandt Line after forty years: The more North–South relations change, the more they stay the same?	33
Participatory authoritarianism: From bureaucratic transformation to civic participation in Russia and China	28
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age: Emotional registers and geopolitical imaginaries in COVID-19 narratives on Chinese social media	23
The quiet failures of early neoliberalism: From rational expectations to Keynesianism in reverse	19
Communities of practice and what they can do for International Relations	17
‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat	17
Machine learning political orders	17
Relational revolution and relationality in IR: New conversations	16
The heart of bureaucratic power: Explaining international bureaucracies’ expert authority	14
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world	14
Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR	13
China, India, and the social construction of technology in international society: The English School meets Science and Technology Studies	13
NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn	12
Cosmopraxis: Relational methods for a pluriversal IR	12
Introduction to the Special Issue: The multiple births of International Relations	11
Visual diplomacy in virtual summitry: Status signalling during the coronavirus crisis	11
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity	11
How do strategic narratives shape policy adoption? Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	11
Navigating gender in elite bargains: Women's movements and the quest for inclusive peace in Colombia	11
Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives: Norm translation in Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico	10
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria	10
Returning to the root: Radical feminist thought and feminist theories of International Relations	10
States of ambivalence: Recovering the concept of ‘the Stranger’ in International Relations	9
Pushing resistance theory in IR beyond ‘opposition’: The constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement in Japan	9

Recrafting ontology	8
Pragmatic ordering: Informality, experimentation, and the maritime security agenda	8
The Legon School of International Relations	8
Competition, cooperation, and adaptation: The organizational ecology of international organizations in global energy governance	8
Exploring the determinants of regional health governance modes in the Global South: A comparative analysis of Central and South America	7
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	7
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground	7
Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe	7
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’	7
Space, scale, and global politics: Towards a critical approach to space in international relations	7
What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs	6
Power in relations of international organisations: The productive effects of ‘good’ governance norms in global health	6
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)	6
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security	6
Inclusive conflict? Competitive clientelism and the rise of political violence	6
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding: Narrating postwar reintegration through livelihood in Liberia	6
Counter-peace: From isolated blockages in peace processes to systemic patterns	6
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene	6
The non-anthropocentric informational agents: Codes, software, and the logic of emergence in cybersecurity	6
Reappraising the Chinese School of International Relations: A postcolonial perspective	6
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene	6
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics	6
The political use of victimhood: Spanish collective memory of ETA through the war on terror paradigm	6
Law and contestation in international negotiations	5
Counter-populist performances of (in)security: Feminist resistance in the face of right-wing populism in Poland	5
Problematising war: Towards a reconstructive critique of war as a problem of deviance	5
Provincialising International Relations through a reading of dharma	5
‘Solemn and just demands’: Seeking apologies in the international arena	5
Governing refugees through disorientation: Fragmented knowledges and forced technological mediations	5
Legitimacy under institutional complexity: Mapping stakeholder perceptions of legitimate institutions and their sources of legitimacy in global renewable energy governance	5
Migrant protection regimes: Beyond advocacy and towards exit in Thailand	5
The South, the West, and the meanings of humanitarian intervention in history	5
‘This is not who we are’: Gendered bordering practices, ontological insecurity, and lines of continuity under the Trump presidency	4
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas	4
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea	4
Whose rules? Whose power? The Global South and the possibility to shape international peacekeeping norms through leadership appointments	4
Citizen-centred or state-centred? The representational design of International Parliamentary Institutions	4
Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace	4
Why declare independence? Observing, believing, and performing the ritual	4
Time to break up with the international community? Rhetoric and realities of a political myth in Cambodia	4
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war	4
Peer review and compliance with international anti-corruption norms: Insights from the OECD Working Group on Bribery	3
Inadvertent reproduction of Eurocentrism in IR: The politics of critiquing Eurocentrism	3
Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order	3
The coloniality of the religious terrorism thesis	3
Performing civilisational narratives in East Asia: Asian values, multiple modernities, and the politics of economic development	3
Radical Islam in the Western Academy	3
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics	3
Role and relation in Confucian IR: Relating to strangers in the states of nature	3

The foundation and development of International Relations in Brazil	3
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance	2
Actors, activities, and forms of authority in the IPCC	2
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data	2
The emergence and evolution of International Relations studies in postcolonial South Korea	2
Nuclear weapons, extinction, and the Anthropocene: Reappraising Jonathan Schell	2
International rituals: An analytical framework and its theoretical repertoires	2
The births of International Studies in China	2
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered	2
Against ontological capture: Drawing lessons from Amazonian Kichwa relationality	2
Towards democratic intelligence oversight: Limits, practices, struggles	2
Disruption from above, the middle and below: Three terrains of governance	2
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order	2
Networked territoriality: A processual–relational view on the making (and makings) of regions in world politics	2
From flows towards updates: Security regimes and changing technologies for financial surveillance	2
Judicial diplomacy: International courts and legitimation	2
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil	2
Re-enacting the international order, or: why the Syrian state did not disappear	2
Global intellectual history in International Relations: Hierarchy, empire, and the case of late colonial Indian international thought	2
An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism	2
Transnational blindness: International institutions and refugees’ cross-border activities	2
The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency	2
Understanding bricolage in norm development: South Africa, the International Criminal Court, and the contested politics of transitional justice	2
Imagining (in)security: NATO's collective self-defence and post-9/11 military policing in the Mediterranean Sea	1
The international politics of truth: C. Wright Mills and the sociology of the international	1
The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy	1
The economic corridors paradigm as extractivism: Four theses for a historical materialist framework	1
The ‘Question of Palestine’: From liminality to emancipation	1
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations	1
Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany	1
Rethinking international intervention through coeval engagement: Non-formal youth education and the politics of improvement	1
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo	1
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights	1
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live	1
Forget what you hear: Careless Talk, espionage and ways of listening in on the British secret state	1
Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Existentialism and IR meet the post-apocalyptic pandemic novel	1
Taking trust online: Digitalisation and the practice of information sharing in diplomatic negotiations	1
Decolonising Development Studies	1
Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation: Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations	1
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia	1
Guilty knowledge: A postcolonial inquiry into knowledge, suspicion, and responsibility in the fight against terrorism financing	1
Reflections on the forum in the Review of International Studies: A conversation between Cristina Masters and Marysia Zalewski	1
The external dimension of the EU's fight against transnational crime: Transferring political rationalities of crime control	1
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law	1
Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963)	1
The global tree: Forests and the possibility of a multispecies IR	1
‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-19	1
Making a settler colonial IR: Imagining the ‘international’ in early Australian International Relations	1
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene	1
Theorising sexual violence in global politics: Improvising with feminist theory	1
Cooperation between the EU and China: A post-liberal governmentality approach	1
Receding resilience: On the planetary moods of disruption	1
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression	1
Bureaucracy and the everyday practices of contested state diplomacy: The paradigmatic case of Kosovo	1
Invisible on the globe but not in the global: Decolonising IR using small island vistas	1
Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment	1
Polycentric governance of transit migration: A relational perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East	1