OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Problems of Post-Communism 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable Development Agendas of Regional International Organizations: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Eurasian Development Bank	22
Environmental Challenges and Political Regime Transition: The Role of Historical Legacies and the European Union in Eurasia	21
Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council	17
Framing the Collective Memory of the 1990s as a Legitimation Tool for Putin’s Regime	17
Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization	15
Shifts in Support for Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Western Balkans	14
Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism	13
Morphological Analysis of Narratives of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Western Academia and Think-Tank Community	13
Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions: Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of “Traditional Values”	13
The Evolution of Russian Political Tactics in Ukraine	12
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe	12
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania	12
The Patriotic Turn and Re-Building Russia’s Historical Memory: Resisting the West, Leading the Post-Soviet East?	12
The Nexus between Authoritarian and Environmental Regionalism: An Analysis of China’s Driving Role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization	11
Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association	10
Sustainable Development and Actors of Regional Environmental Governance: Eurasia at the Crossroads	10
The Political Economy of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: A Paired Comparison of Transnistria and the Donetsk People’s Republic	10
Russian Border Controls in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social, Political, and Economic Implications	10
Foreign Policy, National Interests, and Environmental Positioning: Russia’s Post Paris Climate Change Actions, Discourse, and Engagement	10
Whose World? Discourses of Protection for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources in Kazakhstan	9
Which History Matters? Surveying Russian Youth and Their Understandings of the Past	9
Part of the Problem? The Eurasian Economic Union and Environmental Challenges in the Former Soviet Union	9
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield	9
Chinese Companies’ Localization in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan	9
“Hieroglyphs of Protest”: Internet Memes and the Protest Movement in Russia	8

The Rise of Populists and Decline of Others: Explanation of Changes in Party Support in the Czech Republic	8
Russia, Post-Soviet Integration, and the EAEU: The Balance between Domination and Cooperation	8
What Motivates LGBT Activists to Protest? The Case of Russia	7
Regional Memories of the Great Terror: Representation of the Gulag in Russian Kraevedcheskii Museums	7
Why Climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors	7
The Revisionist Moment: Russia, Trump, and Global Transition	7
Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine	7
“Save Romania” Union and the Persistent Populism in Romania	7
Party Management from the Perspective of Party Members: Evidence from Poland	6
Post-Communist Countries’ Participation in Global Forums on Climate Action	6
Mega-Event Simulacrum: Critical Reflections on the Sustainability Legacies of the World Cup 2018 for the Russian Host Cities	6
Politics as a Joke: The Case of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Comedy Show in Ukraine	6
Dominant Narratives, External Shocks, and the Russian Annexation of Crimea	6
Routing or Rerouting Europe? The Civilizational Mission of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe	5
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia	5
Mimicking the Mad Printer: Legislating Illiberalism in Post-Soviet Eurasia	5
From Trivialized Neo-Nazis to Parliament: Explaining the Electoral Success of the Extreme Right Party ĽSNS in Slovakia	5
Legitimacy and Authoritarian Decline: The Internal Dynamics of Hybrid Regimes	5
Enhancing Research on Authoritarian Regimes through Detailed Comparisons of China and Vietnam	5
Who Cares? Russian Public Opinion during Medvedev’s Presidency on the Importance and Politicization of History	5
Populism on the Semi-Periphery: Some Considerations for Understanding the Anti-Corruption Discourse in Romania	4
COVID-19 and Azerbaijan: Is the System Resilient Enough to Withstand the Perfect Storm?	4
Donbas Conflict: How Russia’s Trojan Horse Failed and Forced Moscow to Alter Its Strategy	4
Love the Tender: ProZorro and Anti-Corruption Reforms after the Euromaidan Revolution	4
Perceived Welfare Deservingness of the Unemployed in Eastern versus Western Europe: Similar Levels but Different Degrees of Polarization?	4
Media Responses to Domestic Violence: Discussing Volodina v. Russia and the Domestic Violence Law	4
“Silencing” or “Magnifying” Memories? Stalin’s Repressions and the 1990s in Russian Museums	3
COVID-19 in Central Asia: (De-)Securitization of a Health Crisis?	3
Regional Identities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: Being Baltic, Looking North	3
Explaining Factional Sorting in China and Vietnam	3
Collective Charisma: Elite-Mass Relations in China and Vietnam	3
Understanding Russia’s Brain Drain in the 2010s	3
“We Show What Is Concealed”: Russian Soft Power in Germany	3
Domination and Togetherness: Conceptions of Power in Central Asia’s International Politics	3
Higher Education as an Authoritarian Tool for Regime Survival: Evidence from Kazakhstan and around the World	3
COVID-19 as a Test for Regional Integration Resilience in the Eurasian Economic Union	3
Social Policy on Social Media: How Opposition Actors Used Twitter and VKontakte to Oppose the Russian Pension Reform	3
Performative Diplomacy and Popular Geopolitics: The Case of Russian Anti-COVID Assistance to Italy	3
Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda	3
Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia	3
The End of “Putin’s Empire?” Ontological Problems of Russian Imperialism in the Context of the War against Ukraine, 2022	3
Social Remittances upon Closer Examination: Moldovan Migrants in Prague, Czechia and Turin, Italy	3
Electoral Success of Independents under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia’s Local Elections, 2014–2018	3
Who Follows the Referendum Campaign? The Effect of Political Interest and Media Use in Bulgaria	2
Politicisation of Immigration in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from Plenary Debates in Two Countries	2
The Politics of Privatization, Quality of Governance, and Financial Development in Eastern Europe	2
Challenging the Rule of Law in Romania: The Metamorphosis of Political Discourse towards Populism	2
Russia’s Loans as a Means of Geoeconomic Competition in Africa and Latin America	2
Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic	2
Why Didn’t Ukraine Fight for Crimea? Evidence from Declassified National Security and Defense Council Proceedings	2

Nightmarizing States: Affective Encounters with Counter-Extremism in Kazakhstan	2
Media Coverage of Labor Migrants in Russia during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
How and Why Have Domestic Parties Learned from Abroad? The Europeanization of Communist Successor Parties in Selected Post-Yugoslav Countries	2
Party Cues and Pre-Campaign Attitudes: Voting Choice in Referendums in Eastern Europe	2
Anti-Establishment Parties and Voters’ Responses in Post-Communist Europe	2
Between the Home and Kin-State: Self-Identification and Attachment of Ukrainians and Romanians in the Ukrainian-Romanian Borderland of Bukovina	2
The Pervasive Nature of Power in Central Asia	2
Eclipsing Stalin: The GULAG History Museum in Moscow as a Manifestation of Russia’s Official Memory of Soviet Repression	2
Honest Broker or Status-Seeker: Russia’s Policy in Libya	2
National Identity in Time of War: Ukraine after the Russian Aggressions of 2014 and 2022	2
Public Opinion Formation and Group Identity: The Politics of National Identity Salience in Post-Crimea Russia	2
The Night Wolves: Evidence of Russian Sharp Power and Propaganda from the Victory Roads’ Itinerary	2
Navalny’s Digital Dissidents: A New Dataset on a Russian Opposition Movement	2
The Politics of the Past: Polish-Soviet and Polish-Russian Efforts at Historical Reconciliation	2
The Illusion of Merit-Based Judicial Selection in Post-Communist Judiciary: Evidence from Slovakia	2
I Don’t Like It Unless It’s for Me: Voters’ Perceptions of Pork-Barrel Politics in Central and Eastern Europe	2
Dense Networks, Ethnic Minorities, and Electoral Mobilization in Contemporary Russia	2
Law for What? Ideas and Social Control in China and Vietnam	1
Politically Useful Tragedies: The Soviet Atrocities in the Historical Park(s) “Russia — My History”	1
Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe: Presidents in Government Formation Process	1
Institutional Performance and Party Cues: Their Influence on Individual Geopolitical Preferences. The Case of Moldova (2012-2019)	1
An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan	1
The Geopolitical Chess Game: Ukraine’s Interactions with the EU and Russia at the Onset of the War in Donbas	1
In Search of Lost Time? Decommunization in Ukraine, 2014 – 2020	1
Lessons that Lead to War: Foreign Policy Learning and Military Escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict	1
Visualizations of Soviet Repression and the Gulag in Russian Museums: Common Exhibition Models	1
Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention	1
From Decentralization to Coordination: The Evolution of Russian Paradiplomacy (1991 – 2021)	1
Public Opinion toward Asylum Seekers in Post-Communist Europe: A Comparative Perspective	1
Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership	1
Southeast Asia in Kazakhstan’s Omnidirectional Hedging Strategy	1
Delegated Rebellions as an Unwanted Byproduct of Subnational Elites’ Miscalculation: A Case Study of the Donbas	1
Securitization of Higher Education Expansion in Authoritarian States: Uzbekistan’s Seemingly “Elite” Tertiary System	1
New Alphabets, Old Rules: Latinization, Legacy, and Liberation in Central Asia	1
The Power of Norms in Central Asia: Interaction between Normative Frameworks and Political Regimes	1
Playing Near the Edge: An Analysis of Ukrainian Border Youths’ Engagement with the Euromaidan	1
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction	1
Theorizing the Nature of Power in Central Asia. Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Change without Change: Remaking Mental Health Advocacy in Bulgaria	1
More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991	1
How Autocracies Disrupt Unsanctioned Information Flows: The Role of State Power and Social Capital in North Korea	1
A Collapsed Bridge: Most-Híd’s Social Embeddedness and Campaign Messages during the 2020 Parliamentary Election in Slovakia	1
Russia’s Response to COVID-19: Leveraging Pre-Pandemic Data to Theorize about Public Approval	1
Introduction: Encounters After the Soviet Collapse: The Contemporary Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone	1
Varieties of Resilience and Side Effects of Disobedience: Cross-National Patterns of Survival during the Coronavirus Pandemic	1
What Explains Individualism in North Korea?	1
From Repression to Prevention in Central Europe: Football Anti-Hooligan Policies in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia	1
Antigovernment Protests and Commitment to Democratic Principles	1
“What We Murmur behind Their Backs”: Hidden Transcripts of the North Korean Ruling Elite	1
Representations of the First World War in the Politics of Memory in Russia and Ukraine	1
Contested “Logic of Anarchy” in the Post-Soviet Space: The “Near Abroad” Faces Russia’s Power	1
Chained by One Chain: Mechanisms of Electoral Mobilization at the Local Level in the Ethnic Republics of Russia	1