OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of International Studies is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	43
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics	32
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression – ADDENDUM	28
The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance	24
Constructing business authority in global governance: A Bourdieusian account of multi-level meaning fixation	23
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics	21
RIS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	21
Constructing victims: Suffering and status in modern world order	20
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance	20
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation	20
Ontological security, myth, and existentialism	20
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires	20
Subject matters: Imperialism and the constitution of International Relations	19
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda	19
Reproducing socio-ecological life from below: Towards a planetary political economy of the global majority	18
A narrative approach to analysis of covert action	18
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain	18
How a Nazi occupied India’s first chair in International Relations	18
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach	16
Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins	16
The agnopolitics of refoulement: Migration diplomacy and the un/knowing of regional refugee deportation to Syria	16
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms	16
The future is just another past	15
Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power	15
RIS volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	14

RIS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	14
Order-building from the margins: Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea reconsidered through liminality and competing systems	12
Introduction to the Special Section: Disruption by design	12
The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania	11
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy	11
Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union	10
Chelsea Manning, national security, and the cishetero/homonormative logics of protection	10
Degrowth, green growth, and climate justice for Africa	10
Maternalism. Care and control in diplomatic engagements with civil society	10
Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo	9
The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, anti-imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade	9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversal relationality	9
RIS volume 50 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth	9
Unknowing the future: Speculative foresight in international institutions and the unexpected ‘origins’ of expertise	9
The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights	9
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council	8
Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations	8
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan	8
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism	8
The future of control/The control of the future: Global (dis)order and the weaponisation of everywhere in 2074	8
Status cues and normative change: How the Academy Awards facilitated Chile's gender identity law	8
Affective sovereignty: A decolonising politics of emotion in Palestine	8
Capacitating militarised masculinity: Genitourinary injuries, sex/sexuality, and US military medicine	7
‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age	7
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered – CORRIGENDUM	7
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders – ERRATUM	7
Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression	7
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest	7
Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia	7
Neither convergence nor resistance: A hybridization framework for norm evolution in the digital age	7
RIS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	7
External threats and democratisation: Burma 1988 and South Korea 1987	7
Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making	6
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia	6
Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction	6
RIS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	6
Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity	6
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation	6
Beyond production: Following nomadic space in IR	6
On being Chinese and being complexified: Chinese IR as a transcultural project	6
A brotherhood of nations: Imagining the nation-based order during the Springtime of Nations (1848)	6
The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil	6
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations	6
Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance	5
Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics	5
Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia	5
RIS volume 51 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	5
Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world	5
How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene	5

Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia – ERRATUM	5
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons	5
Perforating colour lines: Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West’	5
The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution	5
Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR	5
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism	5
Jesting international politics: The productive power and limitations of humorous practices in an age of entertainment politics	5
A choking(?) engine of war: Human agency in military targeting reconsidered	5
The politics of partisan memory: Last letters of anti-fascist resistance in Italy and France (1943–2003)	5
Civil wars as critical junctures: Conceptual grounding and empirical potential	5
Governing on par with states: Private power and practices of political normalisation	5
RIS volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5