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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism	34
Moral status – human status? Interrogating the connection between morality and dehumanisation during mass violence	32
‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence	31
The dynamics of informal institutions and counter-hegemony: introducing a BRICS Convergence Index	30
Populists in the shadow of great power competition: Duterte, Sukarno, and Sihanouk in comparative perspective	24
Conceptualizing the foreign policy roles of states dealing with historical traumas: the case of Israel	19
Corrigendum	15
Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision	15
Securitizing the nation beyond the state: diasporas as threats, victims, and assets	15
Accounting for inequalities: divided selves and divided states in International Relations	14
The cosmopolitan standard of civilization: a reflexive sociology of elite belonging among Indian diplomats	13
Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan	13
The “negative” view of human nature: apologia for an unrealistic assumption	12
How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations	12
Kant’s domestic analogy: international and global order	12
Infrastructuring public-private relations: Big Tech, the Ukraine War and implications to security governance	12
Securitized political economy, investment regulation and business influence in a geoeconomic era	12
Archeology as a critical mode of inquiry in global politics	12
The turn to turns in International Relations	11
Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes	11
Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures	11
Perpetual ontological crisis: national division, enduring anxieties and South Korea’s discursive relationship with Japan	11
Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies	11
The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism	10
Theorizing the globally engaged city in world politics	10

Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’	10
Practically becoming international: expertise, infrastructure and classification societies in maritime governance	9
Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe	9
Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)	9
Clouds with silver linings: how mobilization shapes the impact of coups on democratization	9
Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm	9
Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement	9
Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology	9
Ontological security, cyber technology, and states’ responses	9
Principled and pragmatic: reconciling competing arguments for ICC attention	9
Audience costs, humiliation, and social creativity strategies: how Beijing boosts citizens’ esteem in international conflicts	9
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	8
The populist challenge to multilateral diplomacy: Brexit and the demise of UK-EU security cooperation	8
Foundations of the Vanguard: the origins of leftist rebel groups	8
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict	8
Hidden figures: how legal experts influence the design of international institutions	8
Racialization in history and theory: World War II, Ethiopia, and colorblindness in international relations	8
The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism	7
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question: a case study of France and the Kingdom of Denmark relations	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	6
Ontological complexity of interpolity orders: the encounter between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing	6
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions	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
The law and politics of funding armed groups in Syria: how states (fail to) counter terrorism	6
“Conceptual entrapment”: understanding the researcher-concept relationship in critical International Relations and beyond	6