OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Millennium-Journal of International Studies 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Space and the Geopolitical	24
(Re)Writing the International: Interrogating Histories, Imagining Futurities	19
Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies	14
Movements to Combat Sex-Trafficking: The Social Construction of a Global Problem and Its Solutions	13
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations: Addressing Epistemic Exclusions in Syllabi in the United States and Canada	12
Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas	12
The Anxious State: Impossibility of Closure and State’s Ontological (In-)security in Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Vietnam	11
Memory Politics After Disaster: Recovery, Embodied Trauma and the Covid-19 Pandemic	10
Assembling Civilisational and Cultural Nation-States in East Asia: The Case of Japan	10
Entangled Empire: Religion and the Transnational History of Pakistan and Israel	8
Statecraft under God: Radical Right Populism meets Christian Nationalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	8
Theorising the Politics of Tourism: Global Travel and the Nation-State	8
Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations	8
Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures	8
ERRATUM to ‘Crafting Stories, Making Peace? Creative Methods in Peace Research’	7
Re-imagining Mobility: From (In)visibility to Multiple Processes of Making Present	7
Republicanism and Imperialism at the Frontier: A Post-Black Lives Matter Archeology of International Relations	7
Failure and Critique of the Market	6
From Humanitarian Intervention to Regime Change in Libya: Human Agency in the Production and Transformation of Global Security Assemblages	6
The Red Soil	6
Feminism and Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decolonizing the Coloniality of Power in Aymara Cosmology	5
Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar	5
Seized: Performance Autoethnography in the UK Border Force National Museum	5
Trauma Time and Memory in Understanding Gender-Based Violence	5
A Struggle for Hegemonic Feminisation in Six Feminist Foreign Policies Or, How Social Hierarchies Work in World Politics	4

Elimination Games: The Global Rise of Military Reality TV and the Shaping of the Citizen Subject	4
Collective Memories, Concepts and Experiences: Two Angles on the Political Process of Meaning Making	4
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project	4
The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century	4
The Violence of Settler Imperialism – and Why the Concept of Coloniality Cannot Grasp It	3
Settler-Humanitarianism: Dispossession, ‘Humanitarian Transfer’ and the 1948 Nakba	3
Researching Silence: A Methodological Inquiry	3
Temporalities in Translation. Anthropocene Futures, the SDGs and Justice in Baltimore	3
See, Touch, Feel: Theorizing Twitter/X Images for Diplomacy	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
Technification and Securitisation: The Mechanism of ‘Rendering Technical’ in Polish Nuclear Energy Politics	3
Decolonising and the Aesthetic Turn in International Studies: Border Thinking, Co-creation and Voice	2
Zoonotic Politics: The Impossible Bordering of the Leaky Boundaries of Species	2
Liquid Fear, Agency and the (Un)conscious in Securitisation Processes: The Case of the UK’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment	2
Empire, Islam, and Writing the New World Empire, Islam, and Writing the New World	2
Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR	2
‘More Human than Human’: Colonial Logics and the Modern Subject in Science Fiction Films	2
The Worldmaking of Mobile Vernacular Capitalists: Tracing Entanglements Between Race, Caste and Capital	2
Protecting Whiteness: Counter-Terrorism, and British Identity in the BBC’s Bodyguard	2
Implicated Memory Activism Across Borders: South Korean Advocacy for Vietnamese Massacre Victims of the Second Indochina War	2
Is Chinese IR Scholarship White? A Non-Dichotomous Critique of ‘The International as Singular, Enlightened and Sanitised’	2
CORRIGENDUM	1
A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea	1
The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic Protocols and Global Security	1
Who is Indigenous in Africa? The Concept of Indigeneity, its Impacts, and Progression	1
‘The Skills. . . had to be Used Simply Because They Were There’: Instrumental Rationality in the Military Domain	1
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Peace? Making Visible Epistemic Exceptionalism in Peacebuilding Discourse	1
Disappointment’s Magic: Negative Emotions, Transitional Justice and Resistance	1
A Tale of Two Femocrats: Brokering Gender Norms in Addis Ababa	1
Too Much Hegemony: A Novel Theory of the Unintended Consequences of Dominant Narratives	1
English School Special Section	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
Theorising from the Land: House or Tipi of IR?	1
Engaging With Temporal Others : Memory, Trauma and (In)security Across Time	1
Transforming Discourse, Driving Change: Gendered Nuclear Identities and the Soviet Union’s Shift to Disarmament in the 1980s	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
All My. . . Non-Relation: Critical Indigenous Theory in the Anthropocene	1
‘The Everyday Work of Repair’: Exploring the Resilience of Victims-/Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	1
Against Victory: Decolonising Justice After War	0
How to Problematize the Global?	0
For the New Black Archive WoodlyDeva R., Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).YounisMusab, On the Scale of the World:	0
The Affective Economies of Sovereignty: Desire and Identification	0
Remaking the ‘World’ in the World Heritage List: International Organisations, Settler Colonialism, and Architectural Preservation in Brasilia	0
Slow Resistance: Resisting the Slow Violence of Asylum	0
Prevent, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus: Analysing Terrorism Prevention Policies Using Althusser’s Framework	0
The Processes of Social Nature: Sovereignty in the Anthropocene	0
Race, Merit, and the Moral Economy of International Relations	0
The Abrahamic Ideology: Patrilineal Kinship and the Politics of Peacemaking in the Contemporary Middle East	0

Resolving the Theseus Paradox at the Cusp of Independence: The Battle to Become the Legal Successor of British India	0
Accessible, Transparent, Progressive: Conceptualising the Militarisation of Digital Space Through the Social Media Presence of Arms Manufacturers	0
Decolonising the Civilian in Third World National Liberation Wars	0
Reading Security Imaginaries as Fantasies – Loss, Desire, and Enjoyment in the Military Quest for Explainable AI	0
On Indigenous Refusal against Externally-Imposed Frameworks in Historic Palestine	0
‘We try to Humanise their Stories’: Interrogating the Representation of Migrants and Refugees Through the Shift from ‘Poverty Porn’ to Humanisation and Resilience	0
‘The Citadel of Scholarship’: Rediscovering Critical IR in Millennium 1:1	0
The Power of Victimhood: A Relational Analysis of the Diplomatic Negotiations on a UN Loss and Damage Fund	0
The Biopolitics of Liberal War: Humanity, Temporality and Cosmology	0
But Where is the Magic? Emotional-relational Humans and their Untold Stories in International Relations	0
Author’s Response: Writing from the Ruins Author’s Response: Writing from the Ruins	0
Thinking a New World/Writing the New World: An Introduction to the Symposium A Symposium on Caraccioli’sMauro JoséWriting the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Ga	0
Book Review: Modernity, Anthropocentrism and the Materialist-Emergentist Conception of Nature BandopadhyaySaptarishi, All is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State (Oxford: Oxford Univer	0
From Empires to Nation States? Enduring Legacies and Historical Disjunctures	0
Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment	0
Foreign or Domestic? The Desecuritisation of Indian Affairs and Normativity in Securitisation Theory	0
Big Pictures – IR’s Cosmological Turn AllanBentley B., Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 338pp. ISBN 978-1-108-40400-6 HB£75, PB, £21.99)BainW	0
‘The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction	0
Why is There No History of Fascist International Thought?	0
On Multiple Objects and Ontic Fixes: Human Rights and the ‘Forgotten’ Politics of the United Nations’ Human Rights-Based Approach	0
Global Coloniality: Bringing Past Imperial Differences Back to the Present	0
Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone	0
Interrogating and Broadening the Emerging Narrative on Migration Diplomacy: A Critical Assessment	0
The Use and Misuse of the ‘Local Turn’	0
Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism	0
The International in Turkish Islamist Thought	0
In Search of the Unicorn: The Magical, the Imaginary and the Spatio-Temporal Ordering of Knowledge	0
Encounter, Critique, and Postcritique: A Play in Two Acts	0
Anarchic Unfreedom: Critical International Theory Versus Neoliberalism and the New Right	0
Understanding Shifts in US Policies towards the Taliban: A Critical Analysis	0
Contending American Visions of North Korea: The Mission Civilisatrice versus Realpolitik	0
Shifting Authority: Indigenous Law-Making and State Governance	0
Specters of Minks: Postcapitalist Elegies and Multispecies Solidarities	0
Book Review: Power Transition in the Anarchical Society: Rising Powers, Institutional Change and the New World Order Book Reviewed: NavariCorneliaKnudsenTonny Brems (eds). Power Transition in the Anar	0
Wonder and Politics of Nature-Thinking: Beyond Terra Nullius and into the Anthropocene Wonder and Politics of Nature-Thinking: Beyond Terra Nullius	0
Crafting Stories, Making Peace? Creative Methods in Peace Research	0
Denials ‘From Seabed to Space’: Assemblages of (In)Security and Denial in the Politics of Security	0
Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations: A Forum	0
Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation in Afghanistan and Iraq	0
Unfinished Peace, Unfinished Memory: Theorising Feminist Peace With Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art	0
Tackling Epistemic and Cognitive Injustice in Political Dialogue: The Case of OACPS–EU Relations	0
Two Responsibilities to Protect	0
The Ottoman International System: Power Projection, Interconnectedness, and the Autonomy of Frontier Polities	0
Against Sovereignty: The Colonial Limits of Modern Politics	0
Revisiting the Case of Ethnography and International Relations	0
Cinema and Critique: Third World Imaginaries	0
Affect, Aesthetics, and Sovereign Attachments Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in Pakistan, University of California Press, 2021, $3	0
Algorithms and IR: Towards a Critical Quantum Theory	0
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan Forum Discussion: Khoja-MooljiShenila, Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Paki	0
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum	0
Street Renaming as a Means of Symbolic Insult and a Diplomatic Slap in International Relations	0
The Affective Trajectories of Sovereignty in Post-9/11 Pakistan	0
Colonial Modernity and the Indian Rebellion of 1857: Unsettling the Nation-State Through Mirza Ghalib’s Dastanbuy	0
Decolonizing IR’s Environmental Racial and Colonial Temporality: Frantz Fanon, John Akomfrah, and the Politics of Invention	0
Speed and War in US Military Thought: Mapping the Conditions for AI–Enabled Decision-Making	0
Ungendered Flesh: Racial Grammars in Western Engagements with Sexual Violence in the DRC	0
Reimagining Security Through Xenophilic Immunity: The Case of South Korean Conscientious Objectors	0