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

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	60
On Empire, Race and Global Justice, the Joseph Fletcher prize forum	28
Letter from the editors	18
Small states as helpless pawns? Panama’s diplomatic strategy over the Taiwan Strait	17
‘What gives you the right?’ Foreign policymakers’ perceptions of the legitimacy of sanctions against democratic breakdown in Venezuela (2014–2019)	16
Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel	14
Dysfunctional Diplomacy: The Politics of International Agreements in Era of Polarization	13
Birth of the geopolitical age: global frontiers and the making of Modern China	13
Letter from the editors	11
Operating by caesura: Medicalisation, geopolitical othering and biopolitical legitimacy in the (non-)approval of Sputnik V in the European Union	9
Responses of Polish NGOs engaged in democracy promotion to shrinking civic space	8
Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit, (eds), Culture and Order in World Politics	7
Myth-making and the laws of war	7
On ideology, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum	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?	6
Towards a holistic understanding of Afghanistan	5
Letter from the editors	5
The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalisation of China’s Development Finance	4
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
The behavioural logics of international public servants: the case of African Union Commission staff	4
Counterpoints for a new agenda in the study of global injustices	3
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China’s search for the future to answer the past: Liu Cixin, (science-)fiction and Chinese developmentalism	3

Letter from the editors	3
Letter from the editors	3
Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948	3
Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering	3
A new narrative of statelessness	3
Theorizing populism in international relations: a classical realist perspective	3
Counter-mapping the archive: a decolonial feminist research method	2
‘Outsourcing patriarchy’ in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE)	2
The political effect of medical dominance in South Korea’s COVID-19 response	2
Rohan Mukherjee, Ascending Orders: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions	2
Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphic turn toward scientific progress Patrick James, Realism and international relations: a graphi	2
The party politics of national role contestation: Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition and the Russian war against Ukraine	2
Sarah Wolff, 2021, Secular Power Europe and Islam; Identity and Foreign Policy	2
Power vacuums in international politics: a conceptual framework	2
Response to the reviewers: on imagining Afghanistan	2
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: a text-based analysis	2
Engaging in and with complexity: local actors, Mayors for Peace and the global nuclear order	2
The paradox of semiconductors—EU governance between sovereignty and interdependence	2
Federico Donelli, Turkey in Africa Turkey’s strategic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
From ‘Westlessness’ to renewal of the liberal international order: whose vision for the ‘good life’ will matter?	2
Overseas economic interest perspective in foreign policy—a case study of China	2
Indonesia in the Cataclysmic Twentieth Century	2
Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America	2
Letter from the editors	1
Jason Lyall, divided armies: inequality and battlefield performance in modern war	1
The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum: response to reviewers	1
Unsettling origin stories	1
The unintended consequences of US deep engagement in the South China Sea	1
Before the West book forum - Introduction, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum	1
Of imperial men and the contested origins of International Relations	1
Go with the flow. The fluid nature of African security governance: interpreting security regime configuration(s) in CAR, Burkina Faso, and DRC	1
Limits of the Portrait	1
(Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order	1
The Guicciardini Prize Forum: reply to comments	1
Response to reviewers, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum	1
When regional energy cooperation fails: learning from the struggles of Northeast Asia’s joint oil import mechanism	1
Facts and Explanations in International Studies…and beyond	1
‘Twists and turns’: the strategic manipulation of ISIS, the caliphate, and political branding	1