OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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’	7
From Arming to Fighting? The Steps to War, Mutual Military Buildups and Dispute Onset in the Greece-Ottoman Empire/Turkey Rivalries	7
Kjell ÖSTBERG, The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy	6
New Regionalism Beyond Asia-Pacific: South Korea’s Multidimensional Approach to the Eastern Mediterranean	6
Diana T. KUDAIBERGEN, The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship	6
China’s Growing Influence in Latin America: Navigating Geopolitical Rivalry and Economic Dependency	6
Understanding the Complexities of the Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Puzzle by Regional Security Complex Theory	5
Debating National Identity Through the China Model: An Ideological Spectrum Analysis	5
Burak KADERCAN, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict	5
Worst of Friends, Best of Rivals: Agency vs Structure in Turkey-Russia Relations	5
The Return of the State and Its Alla Turca Version	5
Kishore MAHBUBANI, The Asian 21st Century	5
A Political Economy of Historical Change and Continuity in Turkish Foreign Policy	5
The Complexity Effect in U.S.-Turkey Relations: The Restructuring of the Middle East Regional Security	4
Analysis of Van Province’s Migration from Iran by Geographically Weighted Regression Method	4
Introducing the Response to Sponsorship Dataset: Determinants of Responses by Target States to State Sponsors of Rebel Groups	4
The Rise of China and its Interplay with the Russian and Turkish Regimes	3
Foreign Language Acquisition and Learning of Late Ottoman Ambassadors and Consuls (1885-1910)	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
The Role of Ideas and Identities in Shaping Economic Decisions: The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis and Turkey-Greece-Cyprus Triangle	3
Architectures of Similarity: Fragments, Islands and other Escapes from the Turkey and Europe Framework	3
Reconciling Tensions in the Analysis of Bourgeois Revolutions: A Critical Realist Approach	3

Turkey and the Greater Eurasian Partnership: Opportunities and Challenges in “Amalgamated” Regionalism	3
Chanintira na THALANG and Yong-Soo EUN, Global International Relations in Southeast Asia	3
Spatial Imaginations of “Turkey” and “Europe”: An Introduction	3
Toni HAASTRUP, Luis MAH and Niall DUGGAN (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations	3
Zeynep ŞAHİN-MENCÜTEK, N. Ela GÖKALP-ARAS, Ayhan KAYA, and Susan Beth ROTTMANN, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Between Reception and Integration	3
‘Welcoming’ Guests: The Role of Ideational and Contextual Factors in Public Perceptions About Refugees and Attitudes about Their Integration	3
Dominique AREL and Jesse DRISCOLL, Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022	3
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
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
Regionalism with Chinese Characteristics: The Belt and Road Initiative, New Narratives and Implications for International Order	2
From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR’s Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey’s Centennial	2
Impact of the Montreal Protocol on Decision-Making Processes for Participation: A Case Study of Türkiye	2
Hope and Despair: Understanding Change in Turkey-EU Relations	2
Mitigating the Political Cost of Financial Crisis with Blame Avoidance Discourse: The Case of Turkey	2
Re-scaling and Globalizing EU-Turkey Bilateral Relations in the Changing Global Political Landscape	2
Turkey at 100: Between Constancy and Change	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
Hans KUNDNANI, Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project	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
Mattias FIBIGER, Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World	2
Resistance and Change in Form and Content of International Law: A Third World Perspective on Commodity Form Theory of International Law	2
Turkey as Normative Power: Connections with the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Spring	2
Through the Lenses of Morality and Responsibility: BRICS, Climate Change and Sustainable Development	2
Transformation of Turkish-Russian Relations: Rivalry and Cooperation in Eurasia and the Levant	2