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 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
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	22
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	22
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
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
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	15
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	14
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
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	13
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
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	12
The turn to turns in International Relations	12
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
Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	11
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
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
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	10
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	10
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
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
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	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
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
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
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
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