OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Politics is 3. 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
Demagoguery, populism, and foreign policy rhetoric: evidence from Jair Bolsonaro’s tweets	42
Party institutionalization, authoritarian regime types and women’s political equality	26
Warsaw and Istanbul in de-democratising countries. Democratic enclaves or sham democracies?	20
Shades of presence in post-2011 Tunisia: evolving political positions in feminist and queer activism	14
Revisiting liberal intergovernmentalism in CFSP: preference formation and the EEAS	13
The European Union in the annual United Nations General Assembly Debates	13
Are Latin American populists more likely to introduce direct democracy?	10
BRICS countries’ annual intergovernmental declaration: why does it matter for world politics?	10
Armed forces and airwaves: media control and military coups in autocracies	10
Patron-client state relations and the geopolitics of authoritarian survival and breakdown: evidence from the MENA countries	9
Packaging OECD policy advice: universal policy models and domestication of recommendations	9
What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’	9
The strengths and limits of neoliberal populism: the statism and mass organisation of contemporary rightwing regimes	8
Servants of the state or masters of capital? Thinking through the class implications of state-owned capital	7
‘Exclusionary welfarism’: a new programmatic agenda for populist right-wing parties?	7
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management	7
When and how the ‘Neighbours’ matter: ‘Immediate’ opportunity structures in the Eastern neighbourhood and policy frame-alignment by the EU	7
The vulnerability of securitisation: the missing link of critical security studies	6
Locating new ‘state capitalism’ in advanced economies: an international comparison of government ownership in economic entities	6
Commissions of inquiry and transitional justice in India: accountability, acknowledgment, and truth in the aftermath of communal violence	6
The ontological core of political radicalism. Exploring the role of antagonist, dogmatic, and populist beliefs in structuring radical ideologies	6
Is Milei a populist? People and market in the new radical right in Argentina	6
Populist sovereigntism and international cooperation: the case of Brazil and Hungary	5
Big data-mediated repression: a novel form of preemptive repression in China’s Xinjiang region	5
How well does ‘resilience’ apply to democracy? A systematic review	5

Reuniting strategy and diplomacy for 21^stcentury statecraft	5
Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia	5
From attractiveness to hard hedging: US allies’ response to Washington’s lack of security assurance under the Obama and Trump presidencies	5
Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe	5
The politics of listening at the World Humanitarian Summit – localisation as resistance	5
Contagious politics and COVID-19: does the infectious disease hit populist supporters harder?	5
Devil on the doorstep v. bandits in the backyard: Iranian and American theory-laden perceptions and judgements during three US-led Middle East operations	4
The Arab spring: why did the uprisings miss the monarchies?	4
Power struggle on subjectivity and foreign policy: a post-structuralist analysis of JDP’s policies towards the United States (2002–2016)	4
Behind the screens: Russian emotional manipulation strategies against black Americans on social media	4
The psychosocial foundation of China’s state-led nationalism	3
Fragile ties: exploring city diplomacy in times of crises	3
How are narratives sacralised? Russian dogma on the war in Ukraine	3
The web of Big Lies: state-sponsored disinformation in Iran	3
The diffusion of data privacy laws in Southeast Asia: learning and the extraterritorial reach of the EU’s GDPR	3
Fraternisation and repression during the 2020–2021 attempted revolution in Belarus	3
International organisations as policy bricoleurs: An analysis of the World Bank's healthcare financing recommendations for Argentina and Croatia	3
Uncooperative leadership: US public opinion and limited commitments to region building	3