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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	57
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	48
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	41
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	39
Knowledge power Europe	37
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	36
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	33
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	32
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	31
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	29
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	29
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	27
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	26
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	25
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	20
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	20
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	20
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	19
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	17
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	16
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	16
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	16
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	15
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	15
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	14

European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?	14
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	14
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	14
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	13
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	13
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	12
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	12
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	12
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	11
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	11
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	11
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	10
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	10
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	10
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	10
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	10
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	10
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	9
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	9
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	9
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	8
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
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	7
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	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
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	6
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	6
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	6
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	6
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	6
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	6
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	6
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	6
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	6
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	5
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	5
Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU	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
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	5
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	5
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	5
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	5

The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	5
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	5
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	4
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	4
Partners for the climate? How and why EU Delegations engage with civil society organisations in climate diplomacy	4
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	4
From entry to exit: how and why the European Commission politicised EU emigration	4
Dancing to the same tune? EU and US approaches to standards setting in the global digital sector	4
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	4
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	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
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	4
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	4
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	4
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	4
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	4
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	4
The institutional architecture of the European Union: emerging and unresolved questions	3
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	3
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	3
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	3
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	3
Shifting narratives? The EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the war in Ukraine	3
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	3
When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine	3
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	3
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	3
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	3
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	3
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	3
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism	3
The Covid-19 pandemic and European integration: challenges and prospects for citizens, institutions, and the EU polity	3
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	3
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	3
“The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe”	3
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	3
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	3
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	3
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	3
Women’s leadership in the EU institutions: a comparative prosopography between 2016 and 2021	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
Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout	2
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	2
The EU hotspot approach in Italy: strengthening agency governance in the wake of the migration crisis?	2
The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	2
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	2
Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe	2
The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?	2
A principal-agent analysis of inter-agency cooperation in EU border management	2
Controlling European money for failing banks: designing the European Stability Mechanism as banking union’s financial backstop	2
Emotions in EU foreign policy – when and how do they matter?	2
The evolution of EU–US cybersecurity law and policy: on drivers of convergence	2
Emotions and norms in the Syrian refugee crisis: the comparative responses of the EU and Turkey	2
Transforming a steam train: a historical institutionalist analysis of EU railway policy	2
The EU and the governance of the Maritime Global Space	2
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	2
From market failures to systemic failures: the evolving rationale for European industrial Policy	2
Beyond parliamentary ratification: the role of national and subnational parliaments in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations	2
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	2
A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union	2
Unpolitics, domestic pressures, or else? The opposition of Visegrád Group countries to the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum	2
The European Parliament and Fridays for Future: analysing reactions to a new environmental movement by Europe’s climate policy champion	2
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	2
International organizations, European Union access, and authority	2
Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative in EU-China relations	2
From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?	2
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance	2
Public communication and strategic planning: the case of EU Cohesion Policy	2
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	2
Is the EU’s rule of law crisis a byproduct of dissensus and disunion?	2