OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sergei I. ZHUK, KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 (London and New York, Routledge, 2022)	12
Patron-Client Dynamics and Political Outcomes: The Case of Turkey and Northern Cyprus	10
Relations with Russia in The Context of Turkey’s Policy in Constructing its ‘Strategic Autonomy’	8
Gender-Sensitivity and the Possibility of Feminist Foreign Policy in Global Digital Diplomacy	7
Kjell ÖSTBERG, The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy	6
Diana T. KUDAIBERGEN, The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship	6
Understanding the Complexities of the Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Puzzle by Regional Security Complex Theory	6
From Arming to Fighting? The Steps to War, Mutual Military Buildups and Dispute Onset in the Greece-Ottoman Empire/Turkey Rivalries	6
China’s Growing Influence in Latin America: Navigating Geopolitical Rivalry and Economic Dependency	5
Worst of Friends, Best of Rivals: Agency vs Structure in Turkey-Russia Relations	5
A Political Economy of Historical Change and Continuity in Turkish Foreign Policy	5
New Regionalism Beyond Asia-Pacific: South Korea’s Multidimensional Approach to the Eastern Mediterranean	5
The Return of the State and Its Alla Turca Version	5
Burak KADERCAN, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict	5
Kishore MAHBUBANI, The Asian 21st Century	5
Debating National Identity Through the China Model: An Ideological Spectrum Analysis	5
Introducing the Response to Sponsorship Dataset: Determinants of Responses by Target States to State Sponsors of Rebel Groups	4
Analysis of Van Province’s Migration from Iran by Geographically Weighted Regression Method	4
Turkey and the Greater Eurasian Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges in “Amalgamated” Regionalism	3
Reconciling Tensions in the Analysis of Bourgeois Revolutions: A Critical Realist Approach	3
‘Welcoming’ Guests: The Role of Ideational and Contextual Factors in Public Perceptions About Refugees and Attitudes about Their Integration	3
Mattias FIBIGER, Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World	3
Spatial Imaginations of “Turkey” and “Europe”: An Introduction	3
The Rise of China and its Interplay with the Russian and Turkish Regimes	3
Toni HAASTRUP, Luis MAH and Niall DUGGAN (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations	3

Nele Marianne EWERS-PETERS, Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter	3
1939 İngiliz-Fransız-Türk Antlaşması’na Dair Dikkatlerden Kaçan Bir Gerçek: Özel Anlaşma’da Yer Alan ‘Erteleyici Madde’nin Kaldırılması	3
Hans KUNDNANI, Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project	3
Architectures of Similarity: Fragments, Islands and other Escapes from the Turkey and Europe Framework	3
Foreign Language Acquisition and Learning of Late Ottoman Ambassadors and Consuls (1885-1910)	3
Dominique AREL and Jesse DRISCOLL, Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022	3
Chanintira na THALANG and Yong-Soo EUN, Global International Relations in Southeast Asia	3
The Role of Ideas and Identities in Shaping Economic Decisions: The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis and Turkey-Greece-Cyprus Triangle	3
Zeynep ŞAHİN-MENCÜTEK, N. Ela GÖKALP-ARAS, Ayhan KAYA, and Susan Beth ROTTMANN, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration	3
Matthew Specter, Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought between Germany and the United States	2
Assessing the Impact of Turkey’s Quest for Status Since the 2000s on Foreign Policy Change: Transformational or Transactional?	2
İlker AYTÜRK and Berk ESEN (eds.), PostPost-Kemalizm: Türkiye Çalışmalarında Yeni Arayışlar (İletişim Yayınları, 2022)	2
Mitigating the Political Cost of Financial Crisis with Blame Avoidance Discourse: The Case of Turkey	2
Turkey at 100: Between Constancy and Change	2
Henry KISSINGER, Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy (New York, Penguin Press, 2022)	2
From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial	2
Transformation of Turkish-Russian Relations: Rivalry and Cooperation in Eurasia and the Levant	2
Hope and Despair: Understanding Change in Turkey-EU Relations	2
Through the Lenses of Morality and Responsibility: BRICS, Climate Change and Sustainable Development	2
Resistance and Change in Form and Content of International Law: A Third World Perspective on Commodity Form Theory of International Law	2
Regionalism with Chinese Characteristics: The Belt and Road Initiative, New Narratives and Implications for International Order	2
Re-scaling and Globalizing EU-Turkey Bilateral Relations in the Changing Global Political Landscape	2
Impact of the Montreal Protocol on Decision-Making Processes for Participation: A Case Study of Türkiye	2
John BRAITHWAITE, Simple Solutions to Complex Catastrophes: Dialectics of Peace, Climate, Finance, and Health	2
The Transition from Quantitative to Computational Methods in Foreign Policy Analysis	2
The Evolution and Ramifications of the Iran-Saudi Rivalry Through Multiple Lenses: A Review of Mabon, Fraihat and Mohammad	2
The Changing Nature of the Natural Gas Trade between Russia and Turkey: The Role of Climate Change and the EU Institutions	2
Joseph MCQUADE, A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea and Alice MARTINI, The UN and Counter-Terrorism: Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities	2
Emre DEMİR, Contemporary China in Anglo-American and Chinese Perspectives: Making Sense of a Rising China, (New York, Routledge, 2023)	1
NATO’s Quest for Ontological Security: Securitizing Russia in the Arctic	1
“Winning the Peace”: The Role of International Peace Settlements in the Creation of World Orders – A “Geopolitical Marxist” Perspective	1
Role Strain in Foreign Policy: Analyzing the Carter Doctrine	1
Spatial Constructions of Homeland in Turkish National Identity: Exclusion and Inclusion of Europe	1
Individual Leaders and the State: The Case of Israel as a Complex Adaptive System	1
Osamah F. KHALIL, A World of Enemies: America’s War at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden	1
Pathways for Overcoming Commitment Problems in the Transition from Intrastate Conflict to Peace: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis	1
Katharina VOLK, The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar	1
Fragile States and Aid Allocation for Sub-Saharan African Countries: An Empirical Research	1
Theorizing Psychological Operations Through Norm Entrepreneurship: The Cases of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty	1
When Repressed Civil Society Attracts Foreign Investors: The Dual Dimensions of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia	1
"I Thank Greece for Being Our European Shield": Von der Leyen Commission's Spatial Imaginations During the Turkish-Greek Border Crisis in March 2020	1
A Conceptual History: Historical Sociological Analysis of Unipolarity in Structural Realist Literature	1
The Impact of the 2022 European Union Migration Crisis on the Migratory Discourses Adopted by the European Parliament	1
Making Sense of Turkey’s Foreign Policy from the Perspective of Neorealism	1
Emotion Norms and International Securitization in Foreign Policy Analysis: The Official Russian Narratives on the Ukrainian-Russian War	1
Paul D'ANIERI, Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivilized War (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023)	1
Introduction: Marxifying IR, IRifying Marxism	1
Saira ALI, Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk (London and New York, Routledge, 2022)	1
Navigating the Tides of Change: Turkey’s Quest for United Nations Membership and the New World Order	1
Javier BLAS and Jack FARCHY, The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources	1

An Ecofeminist Contribution to the Debates on the Neoextractivist Development Model in Latin America	1
Structural Characteristics and Political Correlates of Public Opinion on Turkish Engagement with the Syrian Civil War	1
Ohannes GEUKJIAN, The Russian Military Intervention in Syria	1
Aysegül KİBAROĞLU, Turkey’s Water Diplomacy: Analysis of its Foundations, Challenges and Prospects	1
Undoing a Hybrid Regime: What Lessons can be Extracted from the Case of North Macedonia?	1
Sogo Angel OLONFINBIYI, On The Crisis of Boko Haram Terrorism: Causes and Perspectives (New York, Routledge, 2023)	1
Citizenship Hierarchies: Talent Programs, Commodification Debates and Citizenship at the Nexus of Market and Desirability Logics	1