OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Review of International Affairs 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazilian foreign policy under Jair Bolsonaro: far-right populism and the rejection of the liberal international order	34
Is covid-19 a liberal democratic curse? Risks for liberal international order	13
Visual narratives of global politics in the digital age: an introduction	13
Beyond continuationism: climate change, economic growth, and the future of world (dis)order	13
A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative: evidence from China, Australia, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States	10
Results and prospects: an introduction to the CRIA special issue on UCD	9
Republican internationalism: the nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international order	9
Decolonising resilience: reading Glissant’s Poetics of Relation in Central Eurasia	9
Theorizing unpredictability in international politics: a new approach to Trump and the Trump Doctrine	8
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	8
Predictably unpredictable: Trump’s personality and approach towards China	8
Japan’s demands for reforms of UNESCO’s Memory of the World: the search for mnemonical security	8
Legal resilience in an era of grey zone conflicts and hybrid threats	8
Foreign aid in times of populism: the influence of populist radical right parties on the official development assistance of OECD countries	7
Visualising the foreign and the domestic in diaspora diplomacy: images and the online politics of recognition in #givingtoindia	7
Ordinary lives behind extraordinary occupations: on the uses ofRubiconfor a social history of American intelligence	7
An East Asian approach to temporality, subjectivity and ethics: bringing Mahāyāna Buddhist ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations	7
What makes communities resilient in times of complexity and change?	7
State personhood and ontological security as a framework of existence: moving beyond identity, discovering sovereignty	7
Unpredictability as doctrine: Reconceptualising foreign policy strategy in the Trump era	6
Donald Trump and the survival strategies of international organisations: when can institutional actors counter existential challenges?	6
Regaining relevance: IPE and a changing global political economy	6
Perceptions of hybrid war in Russia: means, targets and objectives identified in the Russian debate	6
“No future for Libya with Gaddafi”: Classical realism, status and revenge in the UK intervention in Libya	6
Chile’s soft misplaced regional identity	5

Forging their path in the Brussels bubble? Civil society resistance within the domestic advisory groups created under the EU trade agreements	5
The liberal international order and the global south: a view from Latin America	5
The transnational and the international: from critique of statism to transversal lines	5
Understanding hybrid warfare	5
Of economic whips and political necessities: a contribution to the international political economy of uneven and combined development	5
Cultural sanctions and ontological (in)security: operationalisation in the context of mega-events	4
The rise of China and its impact on world economic stratification and re-stratification	4
Bringing back the concept of colonial pacification in the study of preventing violent extremism (PVE) practices: the case of Tunisia	4
The Latin American politics of international law: Latin American countries’ engagements with international law and their contradictory impact on the liberal international order	4
Agents, structures and institutions: some thoughts on method	4
Racialised international order? Traces of ‘yellow peril’ trope in Germany’s public discourse toward China	4
Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’	4
Implications of a regional order in flux: Chinese and Russian relations with the United Arab Emirates	4
A damage assessment framework for insider threats to national security information: Edward Snowden and the Cambridge Five in comparative historical perspective	4
World society and the globality of IR	4
Forum: doing historical international relations	4
Ritual and authority in world politics	4
The distribution of power in the periphery: an approach with the World Power Index	4
Uneven and combined development: a defense of the general abstraction	4
Denying the international	4
Women and black employees at the Central Intelligence Agency: from fair employment to diversity management	3
Al-Bashir didn’t start the fire. Diversity, low contestedness, and the adoption of the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court	3
The greening of uneven and combined development: IR, capitalism and the global ecological crisis	3
The visual politics of the 2015 Iran deal: narrative, image and verification	3
Imposing evenness, preventing combination: charting the international dynamics of socio-technical imaginaries of innovation in American foreign policy	3
The public-private distinction in the shadow of China: Uneven and combined development’s critique of liberal IR theory?	3
Three ideas for taking the English school forward	3
Algeria in declining ottoman hierarchy: Why Algiers remained loyal to the falling patron	3
Governing the souls and community: why do Islamists destroy world heritage sites?	3
The English School as a theory and a scholarly community	3
Allies and enemies: the Gülen movement and the AKP	3
Inclusive growth: the challenges of multidimensionality and multilateralism	3
Fragile interdependence: the case of Russia-EU relations	3
Securitisation of the President: Trump as a national security threat	3
Locating Central Eurasia’s inherent resilience	3
Overseas economic interest perspective in foreign policy—a case study of China	2
Non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court in gatekeeper states: Regime security in Deby’s Chad	2
Establishing the limits of the liberal international order: Latin America and the demand for development	2
A ‘relational turn’?: the merging of history, sociology, and IR	2
Contemporary humanitarians: Latin America and the ordering of responses to humanitarian crises	2
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order: whose vision for the ‘good life’ will matter?	2
Is the English School still an underexploited resource? And whither the English School? An introduction	2
Multiplicity, group identity and the spectre of the social	2
Preventive military strike or preventive war? The fungibility of power resources	2
Pluralism and international law in the English School	2
A geopolitical account of the Eastern Mediterranean conundrum: sovereignty, balance of power and energy security considerations	2
The Azerbaijani resilient society: explaining the multifaceted aspects of people’s social solidarity	2
Rewiring unevenness: the historical sociology of late modernisation beyond the west/east duality	2
In the national interest: towards an English school approach to foreign policy	2
Introduction: Trump and unpredictability in international relations	2

Contesting the EU’s external democratization agenda: an analytical framework with an application to populist parties	2
Introduction: the decline of democracy and rise of populism in Europe and their effect on democracy promotion	2
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	2
Schools of international affairs in the United States: a historical sketch	2
Democracy promotion under populist rule? The case of Poland’s democracy aid in Ukraine	2
TimeSpace of the ‘international’?	2
Democratic decline in the EU and its effect on democracy promotion in Central Asia	2