OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	33
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	28
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	27
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	26
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	22
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	22
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	20
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	20
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	18
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	15
Corrigendum	14
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	14
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	14
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	13
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	12
The turn to turns in International Relations	11
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	11
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	10
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	10
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	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
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	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

Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	9
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	9
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	9
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	9
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	9
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	8
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	8
War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse	8
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	8
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
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	8
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	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	7
Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing	7
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	7
What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea	6
Towards a global security studies: what can looking at China tell us about the concept of security?	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	6
Editorial	6