OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Review of International Affairs 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Adam B. Lerner, From the ashes of history: collective trauma and the making of international politics Adam B. Lerner, From the ashes of history: collectiv	41
What is anticolonial and anti-imperial political thought?	22
Letter from the editors	21
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	16
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	15
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	13
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	10
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	10
Myth-making and the laws of war	9
Letter from the editors	8
Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations	7
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	7
On the medicalisation of global politics: a conversation with Roberto Esposito	7
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	6
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities	6
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	5
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan	5
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era: Global Britain or wavering Britain?	5
Letter from the editors	5
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	4
Wolf warrior diplomacy and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from policy to podium	4
Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering	4
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	3
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	3

Small and peripheral countries out of their own league? The case of Lithuania’s proactive Indo-Pacific policy	3
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	3
IR otherwise	3
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs	3
China’s search for the future to answer the past: Liu Cixin, (science-)fiction and Chinese developmentalism	3
Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphic turn toward scientific progress Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphi	3
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence	3
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	3
Letter from the editors	3
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	3
Rohan Mukherjee, Ascending Orders: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions	3
Engaging in and with complexity: local actors, Mayors for Peace and the global nuclear order	3
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	3
A new narrative of statelessness	3
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa Turkey’s strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s COVID-19 response	2
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	2
From historical bias to historical insight: shifting stereotypes about Central and Eastern Europe after the invasion of Ukraine	2
Response to the reviewers: on imagining Afghanistan	2
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	2
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	2
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	2
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	2
Sarah Wolff, 2021, Secular Power Europe and Islam; Identity and Foreign Policy	2
International criminal justice and the coloniality of therapeutic governance: Balkanism, queerness, and the ICTY	2
Letter from the editors	2
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	2
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
China’s construction projects in the CEE region: neo-mercantilist perspective and data analysis	1
Letter from the editors	1
Crossing the curtain: British activists and the echoes of soviet dissent in contemporary Russian human rights activism	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	1
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war	1
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Forum shopping across multilateral negotiations: Kyrgyzstan’s mountain diplomacy between the United Nations General Assembly and the UNFCCC COPs	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Sylvia Wynter in the Arctic: early modern expeditionary narratives and the construction of ‘Man’	1
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change?	1
Letter from the editors	1