OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of International Relations is 5. 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
When do rebels sign agreements with the United Nations? An investigation into the politics of international humanitarian engagement	23
‘No longer what you used to be’: Renegotiating relations between de facto states and their patrons	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
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
Dispute inflation	7
‘Like flesh and a nail’: rethinking the nexus of familial ties and armed conflict	7
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
Why norms rarely die	6
International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other	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