OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	83
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	81
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	78
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	58
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	55
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	43
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	39
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	39
Towards operationalisation of ‘Europeanisation’ at the sub-national level: a review and proposal of indicators	37
Confronting geopolitics: the EU (and EU studies) at a crossroads?	34
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	34
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	32
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	29
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	28
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	25
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	24
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	24
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	23
A market for war? the reinforcing logics of Europe’s security turn ¹	22
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	22
In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	19
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	18
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	18
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	18
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	18

Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	17
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	17
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	16
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	16
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	16
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	16
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	16
Towards a political economy of the green transition	15
The role of external interference in the politicisation of EU integration: Russian influence and the 2024 referendum in Moldova	15
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	14
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	13
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	13
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	13
A matter of scope: regional strategies in EU matters from the viewpoint of citizens in twelve European regions	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	12
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	12
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	12
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	12
The politicisation of morality in German and Irish discourses on Ukraine	12
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	11
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	11
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	11
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	11
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	11
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	11
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	10
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	10
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	10
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	10
Beyond the water’s edge. Realities of European security and defence politics during war	10
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	10
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	9
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	9
Early warning to no avail?: explaining (in)activity of national parliaments in the Early Warning Mechanism	9
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	9
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	9
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	9
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	9
Correction	8
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	8
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	8
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	8
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	7
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	7
’We do not see the problem, but agree with your solution’: the European Court of Auditors and the politics of evaluation in EU development policy	7
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	7
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	7

Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	7
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	7
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	7
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	7
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	7
What comes next? Institutional differentiated appropriation of the Conference on the future of Europe’s recommendations	7
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	7
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	6
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	6
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	6
The illusion of convergence? Exploring the patterns of (de-) politicisation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the European Parliament	6
Partners for the climate? How and why EU Delegations engage with civil society organisations in climate diplomacy	6
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	6
Mind the output gap: the (de-)politicisation of fiscal policy in the EU	6
Riding the wave? The impact of the Russian invasion on MEP behaviour regarding EU enlargement to the Western Balkan countries	6
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	6
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	6
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	6
Comparing radical left parties’ positions on Ukraine and Israel: between Russophilia and anti-Semitism?	6
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	6
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	6
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	6
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	6
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	5
The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe	5
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	5
Schengen in crisis? Positions of member states reimposing internal border controls	5
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	5
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	5
From entry to exit: how and why the European Commission politicised EU emigration	5
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	5
Who you gonna call … when developing a flagship initiative in an area of limited EU competence? A resource exchange perspective on the development of the European Universities Initiative (EUI)	5
The EU’s recovery playbook: solidarity, conditionality, and resilience in European Parliament debates on the Recovery and Resilience Facility	5
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	5
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	5
Behind closed doors: informal governance in intergovernmental decision-making during the 2015 Greek bailout negotiations	5
Italian foreign policy between Ukraine and Gaza: politicisation and war fatigue from Draghi to Meloni	5
Dancing to the same tune? EU and US approaches to standards setting in the global digital sector	5
When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine	5
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	5
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	5
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	5
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	5
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	5
Civilizationism in the European Union beyond the far right: a morphological approach	5
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	4
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism	4
International organizations, European Union access, and authority	4
Anti-populism, populism, and the politicisation of foreign policy: evidence from Czechia and France	4
Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe	4
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	4
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance	4
To ban or not to ban? Chinese telecom equipment in Northern Europe	4
The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?	4
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	4
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	4
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	4
Public communication and strategic planning: the case of EU Cohesion Policy	4
A principal-agent analysis of inter-agency cooperation in EU border management	4
Present at the invasion: issue ownership, party competition and the politicisation of the Ukraine War	4
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	4
From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?	4
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	4
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	4
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	4
Riding the Eurosceptic tiger vs taming it by technocracy: the UK and France as two ideal types of how to manage hard Euroscepticism	4
Women’s leadership in the EU institutions: a comparative prosopography between 2016 and 2021	4
Cautious optimism: unravelling Chinese views on European strategic autonomy	4
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	4
Silencing voices or strengthening democracy? SLAPPs in the European context	4
From market failures to systemic failures: the evolving rationale for European industrial Policy	4
Shifting narratives? The EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the war in Ukraine	4
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	4