OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration 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
Populism in power and regional (dis-)integration: charting paths of populist regionalism in Europe and Latin America	46
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	41
Who holds the elephant to account? Executive power political accountability in the EU	34
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	33
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	29
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	29
The European Union’s polar ambitions: regional geo-policies yet limited geo-strategic vision	28
The European Union and the governance of contested Global Spaces	28
Agonistic reflections on the legitimacy of EU referenda	26
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	24
The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work	23
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	23
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	21
De facto differentiation in the EU’s economic and monetary union - A rationalist explanation	20
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	19
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	19
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	18
Emotions and norms in the Syrian refugee crisis: the comparative responses of the EU and Turkey	18
Expertise, turnover and refreshment within the committees of the European Parliament: as much like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the mountain as we may think?	17
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	15
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	14
Do euro area institutions benefit the small member states?	14
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	13
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	12
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	12

Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	11
De-Europeanisation of Czech policy towards Eastern Partnership countries under populist leaders	11
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	11
Moral Hazard, central bankers, and Banking Union: professional dissensus and the politics of European financial system stability	11
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	11
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	10
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	10
European solidarity and social class. An uneasy alliance	9
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	9
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	9
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	9
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	9
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship	9
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	8
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	8
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas	8
Knowledge power Europe	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	7
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	7
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	7
The return of the commission social entrepreneurship before and after the Covid-19 pandemic	7
The European Parliament and Fridays for Future: analysing reactions to a new environmental movement by Europe’s climate policy champion	6
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	6
De facto differentiated disintegration in the European Union. The case of Poland	6
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma	6
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	6
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	6
The EU hotspot approach in Italy: strengthening agency governance in the wake of the migration crisis?	6
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	6
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	6
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	6
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	6
Competition policy and agent discretion: transatlantic regulatory cooperation in the digital economy	6
Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?	6
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	6
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	6
The path towards sustainable development in Europe: SDGs, EU institutions, and smart cities	5
The evolution of EU–US cybersecurity law and policy: on drivers of convergence	5
The growing pains of actorness: the European Union in global investment governance	5
Explaining the EU’s policy shift toward China: an institutional approach	5
It’s (not only) the economy, stupid: examining the European Central Bank’s marginal attention to the human and social implications of austerity during the euro-area crisis through the lens of organiza	5
Correction	5
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	5
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	5
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	4
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	4
Crisis in EU-US relations under Trump: an emotional contemptuous double game of misrecognition	4
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	4
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	4
Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout	4

War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	4
A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union	4
Emotions in EU foreign policy – when and how do they matter?	4
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	4
Is the EU’s rule of law crisis a byproduct of dissensus and disunion?	4
The Ukraine war and the emergence of the European commission as a geopolitical actor	4
Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020	4
Towards a legally plausible theory of judicialization in the European Union	4
Higher education in the single market between (trans)national integration and supranationalisation: exploring the european universities initiative	4
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	3
French presidents and the discursive use of European Sovereignty: more than a metaphor	3
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration: a big data analysis	3
The institutional architecture of the European Union: emerging and unresolved questions	3
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	3
Towards an ever stronger politicization? How members of the European Parliament deal with values in social networks	3
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	3
Transnational governance as strategy? Mapping and explaining the European Union’s participation in transnational public-private governance initiatives	3
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	3
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	3
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	3
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	3
The physical completion of the EU’s single market: trans-European networks as experimentalist governance?	3
Public procurement and European Union integration: a systematic review	3
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	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
Ontological security, crisis and political myth: the Ukraine war and the European Union	2
European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?	2
Political conditionality as an EU foreign policy and crisis management tool. The case of EU wartime political conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine	2
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	2
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	2
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	2
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	2
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	2
Breaching the EU governance by decompression	2
Divorced but co-habiting: a co-evolutionary perspective on EU-UK regulatory nexus post-Brexit	2
The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	2
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament	2
Gendering European politics: A story of Progress and Backlash	2
New intergovernmentalism: European council and environmental policy	2
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	2
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	2
Foreign policy and de-Europeanization under the M5S–League government: exploring the Italian behavior in the UN General Assembly	2
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	2
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	2
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	2
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	1
Democracy and the implementation of the European Green Deal: comparing Denmark and Sweden	1
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	1
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	1
Differentiated disintegration in the Economic Community of West African States, the Eurasian Economic Community and the European Union: a comparative regionalism approach	1
Compliance negotiations in EU external relations: the case of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement	1
Participation of ministers in Council of the EU meetings: variation across members and decline over time	1
An egalitarian fortress? Global distributive justice and the EU	1
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	1
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	1
Unpacking democratic participation in the European Green Deal: the case of Climate Pact	1
A Retrospective View on the Union’s Cultural Policy: The Commission’s Objectives in Distributing Project Funds across Europe’s Creative Industries	1
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	1
The Covid-19 pandemic and European integration: challenges and prospects for citizens, institutions, and the EU polity	1
A certain idea of space: France, Germany, and the question of geopolitics in Europe	1
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	1
Have the rules of the game changed? Novel legal interpretations and their impact on the EU’s legitimacy communication	1
Governance, accountability, and political legitimacy: who participates in the European parliament’s committee hearings (ECON 2004–2014)	1
The final frontier? The European Union and the governance of outer space	1
Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2	1
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	1
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	1
Framing the EU polity: how Commission presidents address crises and shape the Union	1
The establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office: integration with limited supranationalisation?	1
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	1
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	1
Introduction to the special issue: the persistent challenges to European Banking Union	1
Parliamentary acceptability of EU military deployments in member states: beyond rubber-stamping?	1
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	1
Banking Union — a stability-oriented macroeconomic or an efficiency-oriented microeconomic project?	1
Democracy and the European Green Deal	1