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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Manufacturing consensus: China’s strategic narratives and geoeconomic competition in Asia	40
Time, the state system and the double chronopolitics of managing ‘migrants’: implications of the Windrush scandal	25
A post-Hegelian theory of human rights: beyond recognition and the state	24
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	23
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	23
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	22
Is China exporting media censorship? China’s rise, media freedoms, and democracy	20
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	19
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping	18
Ultimatums, bargaining, and the duty to preserve alternatives to war	18
Making or un-making states: when does war have formative effects?	17
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	16
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	14
Arms imports in the wake of embargoes	14
Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement	12
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	10
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	10
Of nomads and khanates: heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia	10
Challenging anti-Western historical myths in populist discourse: re-visiting Ottoman Empire–Europe interaction during the 19th century	10
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	9
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	9
Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance	9
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an analysis of public opinion across 44 countries	8
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows	8

Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	8
Dispute inflation	7
‘Like flesh and a nail’: rethinking the nexus of familial ties and armed conflict	7
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground	7
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	7
Why norms rarely die	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
Mapping practices and spatiality in IR knowledge production: from detachment to emancipation	6
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	6
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	6
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	6
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	6
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations	6
Short-haired modern girls: colonial Korean women’s fashion as the standards of civilization	6
Bioinformational diplomacy: Global health emergencies, data sharing and sequential life	6
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	5
Superweapons and the myth of technological peace	5
Complex norm localization: from price competitiveness to local production in East African Community pharmaceutical policy	5
Political regimes and foreign investment in poor countries: Insights from most similar African cases	5
The end of global pluralism?	5
Feelings of (eco-) grief and sorrow: climate activists as emotion entrepreneurs	5
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	5
Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners	5
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	5
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	5
Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali	5
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	4
Economic crisis, global financial cycles and state control of finance: public development banking in Brazil and South Africa	4
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	4
Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production	4
When do member state withdrawals lead to the death of international organizations?	4
Corrigendum	4
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	4
Corrigendum. . .	4
Beyond ethnicity: historical states and modern conflict	4
Civil war as a social process: actors and dynamics from pre- to post-war	4
Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts: the case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine	4
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	4
Decolonizing Self-Determination: Haudenosaunee Passports and Negotiated Sovereignty	4
International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right	4
Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode	3
Alliances, signals of support, and military effort	3
Constructing decolonisation: the Greenland case and the birth of integration as decolonisation in the United Nations, 1946–1954	3
Interests, ideologies, and great power spheres of influence	3
Issue-adoption and campaign structure in transnational advocacy campaigns: a longitudinal network analysis	3
Brain worlds: information order and interwar intellectual cooperation	3
A boat’s afterlife: multiple translations of migratory debris	3
Porous organizational boundaries and associated states: introducing memberness in international organizations	3
The mercenary concepts conditions of possibility: effeminacy, modernity and the international	3

The standardisation of transitional justice	3
A lens into the everyday: visual ethnographies and making a multi-storied film in North-eastern Sri Lanka	3
‘An expensive commodity’? The impact of hope on US foreign policy during the ‘unipolar moment’	3
Nuclearization and de-democratization: security, secrecy, and the French pursuit of nuclear weapons (1945–1974)	3
Worldmaking from the margins: interactions between domestic and international ordering in mid-20th-century India	3
Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis	2
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	2
The question of truth: how facts, space and time shape conversations in IR	2
Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies	2
Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought	2
Populism and foreign aid	2
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world	2
The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan	2
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	2
The international dynamics of counter-peace	2
Do international parliaments matter? An empirical analysis of influences on foreign policy and civil rights	2
Blended Diplomacy: The Entanglement and Contestation of Digital Technologies in Everyday Diplomatic Practice	2
The postcolonial migration state	2
Technologies of justice: forensics and the evolution of transitional justice	2
Enacting the pluriverse in the West: contemplative activism as a challenge to the disenchanted one-world world	2
Editorial	2
How diplomacy evolves: the global spread of honorific state awards	2
How love orders: an engagement with disciplinary International Relations	2
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	2
‘Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory	2