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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	39
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	35
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	31
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	25
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	22
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	22
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	16
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	16
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	16
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	16
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	15
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	14
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	14
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	14
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	13
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	13
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	13
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	13
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of COVID-19	12
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	12
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	12
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	12
The turn to turns in International Relations	12
Corrigendum to “Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations”	11
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	11

The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	11
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	11
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	10
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	10
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	10
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	10
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	10
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	9
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	9
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	9
Corrigendum to “Concept formation in historical International Relations”	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	9
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	7
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	6
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	6
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	5
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	5
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	5
Editorial	5
Digital provision inclusion in trade agreements: the death of (digital) distance through a gravity model approach	5
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	4
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	4
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	4
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	4
With or without you: how junior allies balance security and autonomy	4
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	4
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	4
Summitry as the social international: performance, audience, and vicarious identification	4
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	4
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	4
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	4
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	3
Measurement = generative: bridging IR’s epistemological divides with quantum mechanics’ measurement apparatus	3

A blessing or a curse? The role of money in shaping international health governance	3
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	3
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	3
The Ukrainian meme machine: digital diplomacy and ‘quantum humour’	3
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	3
Protect and punish: norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities	3
‘Baleful influence’: a conceptual analysis of militarism	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	3
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	3
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	3
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	3
History, archeology, and espionage as improvised legibility	3
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	3
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	2
The complex effects of regime complexity: a conflict model	2
The geopolitics of passive revolution and the ghost of Malthus in the American Century	2
Let’s not argue: diplomatic legal talk and the issues of abortion and same-sex partnerships	2
Conceptualising autocracy promotion as commercialisation: marketising narratives and Chinese responses to central Asian protests	2
Women against Putin: gendered security threats and female leaders	2
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	2
Anachronism and International Relations theory	2
A substantive approach to peace: rebel group issues and the durability of peace agreements	2
Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: cross-national survey and elite cues experiment in NATO countries	2
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	2
The international dynamics of counter-peace	2
Informal state influence in international organizations: examining the link between executive head nationality and earmarked funding	2
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	2
Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization	2
Historicizing theory at the end of the world	2
Myanmar’s redemptive revolution: constituent power and the struggle for sovereignty in the Nwe Oo (Spring) Revolution	2
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	2
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	2
Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion	2