OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Franco-German Rivalry in the Post-Brexit European Union	6
Dominique AREL and Jesse DRISCOLL, Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022	6
Relations with Russia in The Context of Turkey’s Policy in Constructing its ‘Strategic Autonomy’	5
Individual Leaders and the State: The Case of Israel as a Complex Adaptive System	5
Politicization, Ratification of International Agreements, and Domestic Political Competition in Non-Democracies: The Case of Iran and the Paris Climate Accords	5
Ontological Insecurity, Anxiety, and Hubris: An Affective Account of Turkey-KRG Relations	4
The Cyprus Issue and the International Criminal Court	4
‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism: Rethinking China’s Belt and Road Initiative from a Confucian Perspective	4
Uluslararası İlişkiler Disiplini ve Niteliksel Yöntem: Türkiye’de Göç Çalışmaları Örneği	4
The Role of Ideas and Identities in Shaping Economic Decisions: The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis and Turkey-Greece-Cyprus Triangle	4
Impact of the Montreal Protocol on Decision-Making Processes for Participation: A Case Study of Türkiye	3
Turkey and the Middle East and North Africa under the AKP: A Three Level Analysis of Foreign Policy Change	3
How not to Globalise IR: ‘Centre’ and ‘Periphery’ as Constitutive of ‘the International’	3
Ohannes GEUKJIAN, The Russian Military Intervention in Syria	3
Deconstruction of Engagements with Public Opinion in Foreign Policy Analysis: A Critical Essay from the Perspective of Vernacular Approach	3
Abdullah HAMIDADDIN (Editor), The Huthi Movement in Yemen: Ideology, Ambition, and Security in the Arab Gulf (London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)	3
Spatial Constructions of Homeland in Turkish National Identity: Exclusion and Inclusion of Europe	3
Oksan BAYULGEN, Twisting in the Wind: The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy	3
Sergei I. ZHUK, KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 (London and New York, Routledge, 2022)	2
From Partners to Rivals: Normative Power Europe Meets Normative Power China?	2
From Arming to Fighting? The Steps to War, Mutual Military Buildups and Dispute Onset in the Greece-Ottoman Empire/Turkey Rivalries	2
“Strong, but Anxious State”: The Fantasmatic Narratives on Ontological Insecurity and Anxiety in Turkey	2
Kun Young PARK, Letter from Joseon to Korea: International Politics of the Korean Peninsula	2
Transformation of Turkish-Russian Relations: Rivalry and Cooperation in Eurasia and the Levant	2
The Impact of Different Basic Trust Types During Critical Situations: The Case of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait	2

Hope and Despair: Understanding Change in Turkey-EU Relations	2
On the Controversial Illegality of the Unilateral Use of Force for the Prevention of Genocide: The ‘Doubtfulness’ Clause Adopted by the ICJ in the Case Filed by Ukraine Against Russia	1
Do Campaign Speeches Predict Foreign Policy? An Operational Code and Leadership Trait Analysis of Donald Trump’s MENA Policies	1
Quo Vadis, Historical International Relations? Geopolitical Marxism and the Promise of Radical Historicism	1
Ulusötesi Savunuculuk Ağları Aracılığıyla İnsan Hakları Normlarının Yerelde Yayılması: LGBTİ+ Hakları Örneği	1
The Turkey-Russia Relationship in Historical Perspective: Patterns, Change and Contrast	1
Identity Change, Anxiety and Creativity: How 19th Century Japan Sought to Leave Asia and Become Part of the West	1
Worst of Friends, Best of Rivals: Agency vs Structure in Turkey-Russia Relations	1
From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial	1
Virginie Tassin CAMPANELLA, Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea (Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2023)	1
International Dimensions of Authoritarian Persistence in the MENA Region: Revisiting US Foreign Aid to Egypt in the post-2011 Arab Uprisings Era	1
Anxiety, Ambivalence and Sublimation: Ontological In/security and the World Risk Society	1
Academic Trends in European Union Studies in Turkey within the Framework of Turkey-EU Relations	1
The Long Shadow of Structural Marxism in International Relations: Historicising Colonial Strategies in the Americas	1
Dominating the Superpower: A Bounded Rationality Approach to Nuclear Proliferation and Inhibition in the U.S. / North Korea Dyad	1
Financial Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Institutions: Turkey’s Political Economy in Crises	1
Dennis DIJKZEUL and Margit FAUSER (eds.), Diaspora Organisations in International Affairs (Oxon, Routledge, 2020)	1
Gezegensel Siyaset Manifestosunun Ardından Yeşil Teorinin Uluslararası İlişkilerdeki Konumu	1
Buddhism and the Question of Relationality in International Relations	1
A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Protection in European Union and African Union Countries: An fsQCA Approach	1
The Role of Democratic Governance and Indirect Expropriation in International Investment Treaty Violations	1
The What, Who and Where of World Politics? Two Different Conceptions of ‘the International’	1
Assessing the Impact of Turkey’s Quest for Status Since the 2000s on Foreign Policy Change: Transformational or Transactional?	1
Authoritarian Populism as a Response to Crisis: The Case of Brazil	1
Ekonomik Diplomasi Perspektifinden II. Wilhelm ve Theodor Heuss’un Türkiye Ziyaretlerinin Değerlendirilmesi	1
Jacques R. PAUWELS, Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War	1
Construction of European identity by the Pro-European Parties	1
Walking a Tightrope: Turkey between the EU and Russia in the Crimea Crisis	1