OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mediterranean 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Small is beautiful but not trendy: Understanding the allure of big hydraulic works in the Euphrates-Tigris and Nile waterscapes	26
The Arab uprisings and the return of repression	19
The formulation and implementation of populist foreign policy: Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean	17
Empowering a fragmented diaspora: Turkish immigrant organizations’ perceptions of and responses to Turkey’s diaspora engagement policy	14
De-democratization under the New Turkey? Challenges for women’s organizations	11
Migration diplomacy in a de facto destination country: Morocco’s new intermestic migration policy and international socialization by/with the EU	10
Looking South: What can Youth Studies in the Global North learn from research on youth and policy in the Middle East and North African countries?	10
Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia: Appraising outsider eclecticism	9
EU-Algeria (non)cooperation on migration: A tale of two fortresses	9
Syrian refugees in Jordan and their integration in the labour market: Jordanian migration diplomacy and EU incentives	9
Which protests count? Coverage bias in Middle East event datasets	8
Youth socio-economic and political grievances: Bringing the ‘Political’ back into understanding contestation in the MENA	8
Greece’s response to the European refugee crisis: A tale of two securitizations	8
The European Green Deal: Challenges and opportunities for the Southern Mediterranean	8
The puzzle of Turkish minority representation, nationhood cleavage, and politics of recognition in Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia	7
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey	6
Disaggregating Jordan’s Syrian refugee response: The ‘Many Hands’ of the Jordanian state	6
Introduction: Arab responses to EU foreign and security policy incentives: Perspectives on migration diplomacy and institutionalized flexibility in the Arab Mediterranean turned upside down	6
Framing a murder: Twitter influencers and the Jamal Khashoggi incident	6
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona Process 25 years after	6
The Unexpected Dynamics of Politicisation of Migration: The Case of the Refugee Crisis in Sicily	6
Go local, go global: Studying popular protests in the MENA post-2011	6
Foreign sponsorship of pro-government militias fighting Syria’s insurgency: Whither proxy wars?	6
Islamist parties, intraparty organizational dynamics, and moderation as strategic behaviour	5
EU democracy projection in Tunisia: The case of civil society consultations	5

Jordan’s economic, security and political challenges under Covid-19	5
Fanning fears, winning praise: Egypt’s smart play on Europe’s apprehension of more undocumented immigration	5
Working class youth transitions as a litmus test for change: labour crisis and social conflict in Arab Mediterranean countries	5
Does it matter what observers say? The impact of international election monitoring on legitimacy	5
The Egyptian LGBT’s transnational cyber-advocacy in a restrictive context	5
Gender equality in Tunisia: The EU’s tripartite dialogue	5
Iran’s soft power in Syria after the Syrian civil war	5
EU democracy projection in the Southern Mediterranean: A practice analysis	5
MENA political science research a decade after the Arab uprisings: Facing the facts on tremulous grounds	5
The Middle East in global modernity: Analytic polycentrism, historic entanglements and a rejuvenated area studies debate	4
The EU and LGBTI activism in the MENA – The case of Lebanon	4
Using the clustering method for a heterogeneous reading of Lebanese youth	4
China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition?	4
Using Content Analysis to Study Political Texts: Notes on Turkish Parliamentary Debates	3
Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement	3
Forced migration governance in Tunisia: Balancing risks and assets for state-making during independence and democratization	3
Taking stock of MENA political science after the uprisings	3
Observing (the debate on) sectarianism: On conceptualizing, grasping and explaining sectarian politics in a new Middle East	3
‘Different than us’? Reciprocal perceptions of the societies in Turkey and North Cyprus	3
How did Tunisians react to Ennahdha’s 2016 reforms? Evidence from a survey experiment	3
China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism	3
Resistance and Military Defection in Turkey	3
Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco	3
The 2021 Portuguese Presidential Elections under extraordinary circumstances: Covid-19 and the rise of the radical right in Portugal	3
Tracking terrorism and counter-terrorism: Introducing the Turkey terrorism incidents database	3
Half-Statelessness and Hannah Arendt’s Citizenship Model: The Case of Palestinian Citizens of Israel	3
Mobilizing for what? Polarized citizens and electoral turnout in transitioning Tunisia	3
Fear of surveillance: Examining Turkish social media users’ perception of surveillance and willingness to express opinions on social media	3