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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas	17
Seized: Performance Autoethnography in the UK Border Force National Museum	15
Forum Introduction	11
‘The Citadel of Scholarship’: Rediscovering Critical IR in Millennium 1:1	10
CORRIGENDUM	9
Space and the Geopolitical	8
(Re)Writing the International: Interrogating Histories, Imagining Futurities	8
Race, Theology, and IR: Thinking with Black Liberation Theologian James H. Cone	7
Entanglements and Detachments in Global Politics	7
Disentangling the Protection Suit: Images, Artefacts, and the Making of the Health-Security Nexus	7
Transforming Discourse, Driving Change: Gendered Nuclear Identities and the Soviet Union’s Shift to Disarmament in the 1980s	7
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Peace? Making Visible Epistemic Exceptionalism in Peacebuilding Discourse	7
Too Much Hegemony: A Novel Theory of the Unintended Consequences of Dominant Narratives	6
Movements to Combat Sex-Trafficking: The Social Construction of a Global Problem and Its Solutions	6
Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies	5
The Strange Journey of the Tributary System	5
Resolving the Theseus Paradox at the Cusp of Independence: The Battle to Become the Legal Successor of British India	5
The Use and Misuse of the ‘Local Turn’	5
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan Forum Discussion: Khoja-MooljiShenila, Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Paki	5
A Tale of Two Femocrats: Brokering Gender Norms in Addis Ababa	5
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum	5
A Struggle for Hegemonic Feminisation in Six Feminist Foreign Policies Or, How Social Hierarchies Work in World Politics	4
Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar	4
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations: Addressing Epistemic Exclusions in Syllabi in the United States and Canada	4
Understanding Shifts in US Policies towards the Taliban: A Critical Analysis	4

The Affective Trajectories of Sovereignty in Post-9/11 Pakistan	3
In Search of the Unicorn: The Magical, the Imaginary and the Spatio-Temporal Ordering of Knowledge	3
Assembling Civilisational and Cultural Nation-States in East Asia: The Case of Japan	3
Decolonising the Civilian in Third World National Liberation Wars	3
Spruyt, Hendrik. The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies. A Conversation with My Interlocutors	3
Big Pictures – IR’s Cosmological Turn	3
Suffering for/against the nation: Gharbzadegi and the tensions of anticolonialism in Iran	3
Elimination Games: The Global Rise of Military Reality TV and the Shaping of the Citizen Subject	3
Emotions, De/Attachment, and the Digital Archive: Reading Violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)	3
The Indigenous Dimension of the Intersocietal: Dussel, Exteriority and the Sámi People	2
Feminism and Decolonizing Decoloniality: Decolonizing the Coloniality of Power in Aymara Cosmology	2
Who is Indigenous in Africa? The Concept of Indigeneity, its Impacts, and Progression	2
English School Special Section	2
The Biopolitics of Liberal War: Humanity, Temporality and Cosmology	2
At Work with Practice Theory, ‘Failed’ Fieldwork, or How to See International Politics in An Empty Chair	2
Colonial Modernity and the Indian Rebellion of 1857: Unsettling the Nation-State Through Mirza Ghalib’s Dastanbuy	2
Reading Security Imaginaries as Fantasies – Loss, Desire, and Enjoyment in the Military Quest for Explainable AI	2
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project	2
The Anxious State: Impossibility of Closure and State’s Ontological (In-)security in Postcolonial and Postrevolutionary Vietnam	2
The Tribute System and the World Imagined in Early Modern East Asia	2
Affect, Aesthetics, and Sovereign Attachments Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in Pakistan, University of California Press, 2021, $3	2
Wonder and Politics of Nature-Thinking: Beyond Terra Nullius and into the Anthropocene Wonder and Politics of Nature-Thinking: Beyond Terra Nullius	1
Theorising from the Land: House or Tipi of IR?	1
Entangled Empire: Religion and the Transnational History of Pakistan and Israel	1
A People’s Sea: Palestine and Popular Thalassopolitics in the Mediterranean Sea	1
From Empires to Nation States? Enduring Legacies and Historical Disjunctures	1
The International in Turkish Islamist Thought	1
Tales of Entanglement	1
Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism	1
Statecraft under God: Radical Right Populism meets Christian Nationalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil	1
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:	1
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	1
Settler-Humanitarianism: Dispossession, ‘Humanitarian Transfer’ and the 1948 Nakba	1
Theorising the Politics of Tourism: Global Travel and the Nation-State	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
Researching Silence: A Methodological Inquiry	1
Debating Uneven and Combined Development/Debating International Relations: A Forum	1
Remaking the ‘World’ in the World Heritage List: International Organisations, Settler Colonialism, and Architectural Preservation in Brasilia	1
Denials ‘From Seabed to Space’: Assemblages of (In)Security and Denial in the Politics of Security	1
The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic Protocols and Global Security	1
Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures	1
‘The Skills. . . had to be Used Simply Because They Were There’: Instrumental Rationality in the Military Domain	1
On Multiple Objects and Ontic Fixes: Human Rights and the ‘Forgotten’ Politics of the United Nations’ Human Rights-Based Approach	1
Textures of Belonging: Feeling Muslim Publics Past and Present	1
Accessible, Transparent, Progressive: Conceptualising the Militarisation of Digital Space Through the Social Media Presence of Arms Manufacturers	1
Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession: Reflections, Experiences, and Strategies	1
How to Problematize the Global?	1
The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms Across the 20th Century	1