OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration is 2. 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
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	51
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	43
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	42
Knowledge power Europe	36
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	36
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	34
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	34
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	30
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	29
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	29
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	29
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	27
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	24
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	24
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	23
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	20
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	20
European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?	19
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	18
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	18
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	16
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	15
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	14
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	14
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	14

Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	14
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	13
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	12
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	12
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	12
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	12
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	12
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	11
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	11
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	11
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	11
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	11
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	10
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	10
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	10
Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system	10
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	10
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	10
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	10
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	10
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	9
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	9
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	9
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	9
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	8
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	8
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	8
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	7
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	7
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	7
Correction	7
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	7
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	6
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	6
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	6
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	6
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	6
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	6
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	6
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	5
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	5
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	5
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	5
’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	5
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	5
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	5
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	5

The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	5
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	5
Foreign policy and de-Europeanization under the M5S–League government: exploring the Italian behavior in the UN General Assembly	5
From entry to exit: how and why the European Commission politicised EU emigration	4
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	4
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	4
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	4
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	4
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	4
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	4
Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU	4
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	4
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)	4
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	4
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	4
Dancing to the same tune? EU and US approaches to standards setting in the global digital sector	4
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	4
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	4
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	4
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	4
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	4
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	4
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	3
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	3
The institutional architecture of the European Union: emerging and unresolved questions	3
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	3
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	3
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	3
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	3
Riding the Eurosceptic tiger vs taming it by technocracy: the UK and France as two ideal types of how to manage hard Euroscepticism	3
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	3
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	3
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	3
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	3
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	3
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	3
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	3
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	2
A principal-agent analysis of inter-agency cooperation in EU border management	2
The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	2
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance	2
The Covid-19 pandemic and European integration: challenges and prospects for citizens, institutions, and the EU polity	2
Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe	2
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	2
Transforming a steam train: a historical institutionalist analysis of EU railway policy	2
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	2
The EU and the governance of the Maritime Global Space	2
From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?	2
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism	2
Shifting narratives? The EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the war in Ukraine	2
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	2
Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative in EU-China relations	2
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	2
International organizations, European Union access, and authority	2
Beyond parliamentary ratification: the role of national and subnational parliaments in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations	2
From market failures to systemic failures: the evolving rationale for European industrial Policy	2
The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?	2
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	2
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	2