OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Millennium-Journal 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations: Addressing Epistemic Exclusions in Syllabi in the United States and Canada	17
Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies	16
Movements to Combat Sex-Trafficking: The Social Construction of a Global Problem and Its Solutions	13
Space and the Geopolitical	12
(Re)Writing the International: Interrogating Histories, Imagining Futurities	11
Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas	9
Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession: Reflections, Experiences, and Strategies	8
The Anxious State: Impossibility of Closure and State’s Ontological (In-)security in Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Vietnam	8
Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures	8
Assembling Civilisational and Cultural Nation-States in East Asia: The Case of Japan	8
Entangled Empire: Religion and the Transnational History of Pakistan and Israel	8
Theorising the Politics of Tourism: Global Travel and the Nation-State	7
Re-imagining Mobility: From (In)visibility to Multiple Processes of Making Present	7
Statecraft under God: Radical Right Populism meets Christian Nationalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	7
ERRATUM to ‘Crafting Stories, Making Peace? Creative Methods in Peace Research’	6
Alternative Global Entanglements: ‘Detachment from Knowledge’ and the Limits of Decolonial Emancipation	6
Failure and Critique of the Market	5
Republicanism and Imperialism at the Frontier: A Post-Black Lives Matter Archeology of International Relations	5
Feminism and Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decolonizing the Coloniality of Power in Aymara Cosmology	5
From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change in Libya: Human Agency in the Production and Transformation of Global Security Assemblages	5
Seized: Performance Autoethnography in the UK Border Force National Museum	5
Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar	5
The Red Soil	5
Indigenising International Relations: Insights from Centring Indigeneity in Canada and Iraq	5
Forum Introduction	5

The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project	4
Elimination Games: The Global Rise of Military Reality TV and the Shaping of the Citizen Subject	4
Spruyt, Hendrik. The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies . A Conversation with	4
The Violence of Settler Imperialism – and Why the Concept of Coloniality Cannot Grasp It	3
A Struggle for Hegemonic Feminisation in Six Feminist Foreign Policies Or, How Social Hierarchies Work in World Politics	3
Temporalities in Translation. Anthropocene Futures, the SDGs and Justice in Baltimore	3
The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment	3
The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century	3
The Lumumba Commission (1999-2002): Shame, Guilt, and the Post-Imperial Self	3
See, Touch, Feel: Theorizing Twitter/X Images for Diplomacy	3
Researching Silence: A Methodological Inquiry	3
Technification and Securitisation: The Mechanism of ‘Rendering Technical’ in Polish Nuclear Energy Politics	3
Book Review: Beyond the Western Gaze? A Postcolonial Perspective on Agency in Contemporary Works on Migration Beyond the Western Gaze? A Postcolonial Perspective on Agency in Contemporary Works on Mig	3
Empire, Islam, and Writing the New World Empire, Islam, and Writing the New World	2
Protecting Whiteness: Counter-Terrorism, and British Identity in the BBC’s Bodyguard	2
Subordinates’ Quest for Recognition in Hierarchy	2
Too Much Hegemony: A Novel Theory of the Unintended Consequences of Dominant Narratives	2
Decolonising and the Aesthetic Turn in International Studies: Border Thinking, Co-creation and Voice	2
Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR	2
The Worldmaking of Mobile Vernacular Capitalists: Tracing Entanglements Between Race, Caste and Capital	2
Is Chinese IR Scholarship White? A Non-Dichotomous Critique of ‘The International as Singular, Enlightened and Sanitised’	2
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Peace? Making Visible Epistemic Exceptionalism in Peacebuilding Discourse	2
Settler-Humanitarianism: Dispossession, ‘Humanitarian Transfer’ and the 1948 Nakba	2
Zoonotic Politics: The Impossible Bordering of the Leaky Boundaries of Species	2
‘More Human than Human’: Colonial Logics and the Modern Subject in Science Fiction Films	2
Liquid Fear, Agency and the (Un)conscious in Securitisation Processes: The Case of the UK’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy	2
The Strange Journey of the Tributary System	1
CORRIGENDUM	1
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum	1
All My. . . Non-Relation: Critical Indigenous Theory in the Anthropocene	1
The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic Protocols and Global Security	1
English School Special Section	1
Theorising from the Land: House or Tipi of IR?	1
A Tale of Two Femocrats: Brokering Gender Norms in Addis Ababa	1
In Search of the Unicorn: The Magical, the Imaginary and the Spatio-Temporal Ordering of Knowledge	1
Disappointment’s Magic: Negative Emotions, Transitional Justice and Resistance	1
Imagining the Islamic International Society	1
A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea	1
‘The Skills. . . had to be Used Simply Because They Were There’: Instrumental Rationality in the Military Domain	1
Suffering for/against the nation: Gharbzadegi and the tensions of anticolonialism in Iran	1
Textures of Belonging: Feeling Muslim Publics Past and Present	1
Travelling Theory and its Consequences: José Ortega y Gasset and Radical Conservatism in Post-Cold War Japan	1
Transforming Discourse, Driving Change: Gendered Nuclear Identities and the Soviet Union’s Shift to Disarmament in the 1980s	1
The Affective Trajectories of Sovereignty in Post-9/11 Pakistan	1
Critiquing Latour’s Explanation of Climate Change Denial: Moving Beyond the Modernity/Anthropocene Binary	1
Tales of Entanglement	1
Doing Justice to Dissent: Unruly Principles and Wild Democracy Books Reviewed: NortonAnne. Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023MilliganTonyThe Et	1
Who is Indigenous in Africa? The Concept of Indigeneity, its Impacts, and Progression	1
Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics	1

‘The Everyday Work of Repair’: Exploring the Resilience of Victims-/Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	1
Reading Security Imaginaries as Fantasies – Loss, Desire, and Enjoyment in the Military Quest for Explainable AI	1