OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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	26
The task of critique in times of post-truth politics	25
Contested disaster nationalism in the digital age: Emotional registers and geopolitical imaginaries in COVID-19 narratives on Chinese social media	21
The quiet failures of early neoliberalism: From rational expectations to Keynesianism in reverse	17
Machine learning political orders	16
Relational revolution and relationality in IR: New conversations	16
Communities of practice and what they can do for International Relations	16
‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat	16
The heart of bureaucratic power: Explaining international bureaucracies’ expert authority	14
Democratising food: The case for a deliberative approach	14
On the meaning(s) of norms: Ambiguity and global governance in a post-hegemonic world	13
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
No action without talk? UN peacekeeping, discourse, and institutional self-legitimation	12
Cosmopraxis: Relational methods for a pluriversal IR	12
How do strategic narratives shape policy adoption? Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative	11
Introduction to the Special Issue: The multiple births of International Relations	11
NATO's strategic narratives: Angelina Jolie and the alliance's celebrity and visual turn	11
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity	11
Feminist foreign policies (FFPs) as strategic narratives: Norm translation in Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico	10
Visual diplomacy in virtual summitry: Status signalling during the coronavirus crisis	10
Navigating gender in elite bargains: Women's movements and the quest for inclusive peace in Colombia	10
Returning to the root: Radical feminist thought and feminist theories of International Relations	10

Pushing resistance theory in IR beyond ‘opposition’: The constructive resistance of the #MeToo movement in Japan	9
States of ambivalence: Recovering the concept of ‘the Stranger’ in International Relations	8
Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria	8
The Legon School of International Relations	8
Competition, cooperation, and adaptation: The organizational ecology of international organizations in global energy governance	8
Recrafting ontology	8
Pragmatic ordering: Informality, experimentation, and the maritime security agenda	8
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
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought	7
Power in relations of international organisations: The productive effects of ‘good’ governance norms in global health	7
Inclusive conflict? Competitive clientelism and the rise of political violence	6
What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs	6
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding: Narrating postwar reintegration through livelihood in Liberia	6
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)	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
Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe	6
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground	6
The political use of victimhood: Spanish collective memory of ETA through the war on terror paradigm	6
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	6
Exploring the determinants of regional health governance modes in the Global South: A comparative analysis of Central and South America	6
Counter-peace: From isolated blockages in peace processes to systemic patterns	6
Epistemic fusion: Passenger Information Units and the making of international security	6
Law and contestation in international negotiations	5
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene	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
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics	5
The South, the West, and the meanings of humanitarian intervention in history	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
Governing refugees through disorientation: Fragmented knowledges and forced technological mediations	5
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene	5
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea	4
Citizen-centred or state-centred? The representational design of International Parliamentary Institutions	4
Confronting the gated community: Towards a decolonial critique of violence beyond the paradigm of war	4
‘This is not who we are’: Gendered bordering practices, ontological insecurity, and lines of continuity under the Trump presidency	4
Counter-populist performances of (in)security: Feminist resistance in the face of right-wing populism in Poland	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