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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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	36
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	20
What is anticolonial and anti-imperial political thought?	20
Letter from the editors	16
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	14
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	12
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	9
Myth-making and the laws of war	8
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	8
Letter from the editors	7
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	6
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	6
On the medicalisation of global politics: a conversation with Roberto Esposito	6
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan	6
Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations	6
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	6
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities	6
Advancing human rights in a post-Brexit era: Global Britain or wavering Britain?	5
Letter from the editors	5
Wolf warrior diplomacy and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: from policy to podium	5
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
A new narrative of statelessness	4
The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia	4
IR otherwise	4
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	4

Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering	4
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	3
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	3
Engaging in and with complexity: local actors, Mayors for Peace and the global nuclear order	3
Rohan Mukherjee, Ascending Orders: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions	3
Letter from the editors	3
China’s search for the future to answer the past: Liu Cixin, (science-)fiction and Chinese developmentalism	3
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	3
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	3
Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs	3
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	3
Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphic turn toward scientific progress Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphi	3
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	3
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence	2
Sarah Wolff, 2021, Secular Power Europe and Islam; Identity and Foreign Policy	2
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	2
Letter from the editors	2
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	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
Response to the reviewers: on imagining Afghanistan	2
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	2
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order: whose vision for the ‘good life’ will matter?	2
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1
The foreign policy of populist governed Middle powers: Italy and the Russia-Ukraine war	1
Jason Lyall, divided armies: inequality and battlefield performance in modern war	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	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
The Guicciardini Prize Forum: reply to comments	1
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
Forum shopping across multilateral negotiations: Kyrgyzstan’s mountain diplomacy between the United Nations General Assembly and the UNFCCC COPs	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	1
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	1