OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Returning to the roots of ontological security: insights from the existentialist anxiety literature	55
Institutional design for a post-liberal order: why some international organizations live longer than others	50
The postcolonial migration state	33
What kills international organisations? When and why international organisations terminate	33
“The persistent myth of lost hegemony,” revisited: structural power as a complex network phenomenon	31
Rebel governance in de facto states	26
Reflexive discourse analysis: A methodology for the practice of reflexivity	26
The organizational ecology of global governance	22
Rethinking leadership: understanding the roles of the US and China in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement	21
Conceptualizing and assessing norm strength in International Relations	21
Wargaming for International Relations research	20
The things they carry: Victims’ documentation of forced disappearance in Colombia and Sri Lanka	19
How to make elite experiments work in International Relations	18
Gendering the practice turn in diplomacy	18
Rethinking causal explanation in interpretive international studies	17
Trickstery: pluralising stigma in international society	15
Infrastructure finance, late development, and China’s reshaping of international credit governance	15
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	15
A ritual approach to deterrence: I am, therefore I deter	14
How foreign pressure affects mass mobilization in favor of authoritarian regimes	14
Civil war recurrence and postwar violence: Toward an integrated research agenda	13
Power and International Relations: a temporal view	13
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court	11
Confronting the caliphate? Explaining civil resistance in jihadist proto-states	11
Populism and foreign aid	11

The de-institutionalisation of power beyond the state	11
Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war	11
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	10
An international hierarchy of science: conquest, cooperation, and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty System	10
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	9
The national accounting paradox: how statistical norms corrode international economic data	9
Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode	9
Bringing Morgenthau’s ethics in: pluralism, incommensurability and the turn from fragmentation to dialogue in IR	9
Violent International Relations	8
Blended Diplomacy: The Entanglement and Contestation of Digital Technologies in Everyday Diplomatic Practice	8
Enfolding wholes in parts: quantum holography and International Relations	8
Explaining elite perceptions of legitimacy in global governance	8
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	8
State recognition and dynamic sovereignty	8
Grist to the mill of subversion: strikes and coups in counterinsurgencies	8
The ontological threat of foreign fighters	8
From armed conflict to urban violence: transformations in the International Committee of the Red Cross, international humanitarianism, and the laws of war	7
Domestic courts, transnational law, and international order	7
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	7
Company-states and the creation of the global international system	7
Realist avenues to global International Relations	6
Revisiting the expansion thesis: international society and the role of the Dutch East India company as a merchant empire	6
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	5
Interests, ideologies, and great power spheres of influence	5
Why norms rarely die	5
Hierarchy, revisionism, and subordinate actors: The TPNW and the subversion of the nuclear order	5
Intertwined parliamentary arenas: Why parliamentarians attend international parliamentary institutions	5
Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations	5
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	5
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century	5
Psychology and aggregation in International Relations	4
Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances	4
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	4
Subversion, cyber operations, and reverse structural power in world politics	4
The art of uncommitment: the costs of peacetime withdrawals from alliance commitments	4
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali	4
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	4
International studies in an unpredictable world: still avoiding the difficult problems?	4
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	4
The prejudice first model and foreign policy values: racial and religious bias among conservatives and liberals	4
Fighting silence covert warfare and the uphill battle against the unsaid	3
Amoral realism or just war morality? Disentangling different conceptions of necessity	3
How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India	3
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance	3
Entrusted norms: security, trust, and betrayal in the Gulf Cooperation Council crisis	3
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	3
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	3
The standardisation of transitional justice	3
Fragmenting and connecting? The diverging geometries and extents of IR’s interdisciplinary knowledge-relations	3
Practice-based and public-deliberative normativity: retaining human control over the use of force	3

The strength of weak bonds: Substituting bodily copresence in diplomatic social bonding	3
The realist science of politics: the art of understanding political practice	3
Dugong v. Rumsfeld: social movements and the construction of ecological security	3
The end of global pluralism?	3
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	3
The (de)legitimation of torture: rhetoric, shaming and narrative contestation in two British cases	3
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	2
Hegemonic instability: complex interdependence and the dynamics of financial crisis in the contemporary international system	2
Technologies of justice: forensics and the evolution of transitional justice	2
The effects of debt restructurings on income inequality in the developing world	2
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations: the Namibian–German case and struggles for restorative relations	2
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	2
Post-Eurocentric grand narratives in critical international theory	2
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	2
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	2
How diplomacy evolves: the global spread of honorific state awards	2
Issue-adoption and campaign structure in transnational advocacy campaigns: a longitudinal network analysis	2
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	2
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	2
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	2
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	2
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	2
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	2
Porous organizational boundaries and associated states: introducing memberness in international organizations	2
Political regimes and foreign investment in poor countries: Insights from most similar African cases	2
Dispute inflation	2
The shadow of sanctions: reputational risk, financial reintegration, and the political economy of sanctions relief	2