OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of International Relations is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	29
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	27
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	27
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	25
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	22
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	21
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	19
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	19
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	17
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	17
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	15
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	14
Corrigendum	13
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	12
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	12
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	11
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	10
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	10
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	10
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	10
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	9
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	9
Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration	9
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	9
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	9

Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	9
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	8
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	8
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	8
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	8
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	8
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	8
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	8
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	8
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	8
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	8
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	7
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	7
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	6
Editorial	6
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	5
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	5
Enforcing peoples’ right to democracy: transnational activism and regional powers in contemporary Inter-American relations	5
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	5
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	5
From alien land to inalienable parts of China: how Qing imperial possessions became the Chinese Frontiers	5
Governing pandemic fatigue: an International Relations case of experiential biopolitics	5
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	5
Bring up the bodies: international order, empire, and re-thinking the Great War (1914–1918) from below	5
Inequality and legitimacy in global governance: an empirical study	5
Exploring the impact of United Nations peacekeeping operations on the external affairs of host states	5
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	4
The politics of human rights trade sanctions: evidence from the African Growth and Opportunity Act	4
Protect and punish: norm linkage and international responses to mass atrocities	4
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	4
Populism and foreign aid	4
Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma	4
Repurposing rebellion: building rebel successor parties on the heels of war?	4
Power, shared ideas and order transition: China, the United States, and the creation of the Bretton Woods order	4
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	4
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	4
Mission (im)possible? UN military peacekeeping operations in civil wars	4
Terrorism as a conceptual site for power struggles: problematization of terrorism in Turkey in the 1970s	4
Why not multiplicities? Dismantling the nation–state–society	4

A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	4
‘A name was banned. Nothing more!’: identity, democracy and banning white supremacists in Germany	3
Let’s not argue: diplomatic legal talk and the issues of abortion and same-sex partnerships	3
Women against Putin: gendered security threats and female leaders	3
Disentangling norms, morality, and principles: the September 2019 Brexit rebellion	3
Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea	3
Discovering the prize: information, lobbying, and the origins of US–Saudi security relations	3
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	3
Roleplay, realpolitik and ‘great powerness’: the logical distinction between survival and social performance in grand strategy	3
Myanmar’s redemptive revolution: constituent power and the struggle for sovereignty in the Nwe Oo (Spring) Revolution	3
December 2021 issue: ‘Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors’	3
One another’s equals? Humanity and the state in international theory	3
The international dynamics of counter-peace	3
A substantive approach to peace: rebel group issues and the durability of peace agreements	3
The geopolitics of passive revolution and the ghost of Malthus in the American Century	3