OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mediterranean Politics is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Post-Salafism in Cambodia: From counterreligion to accommodation	28
Complex effects of international relations	13
Rallying around the mosque or flag: The effects of morality and security agenda setting on political performance in Turkey	11
How does public weeping affect public approval rate of a politician?	10
North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling violence and instability North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling violence	10
Populists and diplomats: Negotiated agency of the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs	8
Civil society, insecurity and Arab support for normalization with Israel: Contextualizing the Abraham Accords	7
Electoral engineering in autocracies: Effects of the 2021 electoral reform on Morocco’s parliamentary elections	6
The unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity	6
Neoliberal citizenship: Sacred markets, sacrificial lives	6
Russia Rising: Putin’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa Russia Rising: Putin’s foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa , by Bechev, Dimitar,	5
Correction	5
Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins	5
The ‘Moroccogate’ scandal and European Parliament decision-making on Western Sahara	5
Faith in numbers: Religion, sectarianism, and democracy	4
The continuation of criminalization by other means: the role of judicial agency in the Italian policing of humanitarian assistance at sea	4
Armenians beyond diaspora: Making Lebanon their own Armenians beyond diaspora: Making Lebanon their own , by Tsolin Nalbantian, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 20	4
Supporting a revolution from afar: The construction of unity between generations of Sudanese exiles in France	4
European neighbourhood policy, the Bologna model and EU-Egyptian cooperation in Higher Education	4
The bidirectional relationship between social contracts and entrepreneurship: Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Kurdistan Region of Iraq	3
Visual frame analysis of the UKIP leave campaigns ‘Turkish migrant’ Brexit visuals	3
China and Egypt’s comprehensive strategic partnership in the Xi-sisi era: a ‘role theory’ prism	3
Introducing the comparative study of electoral systems in Tunisia: populist attitudes, political preferences, and voting behavior	3
Islam and nationalism in modern Greece, 1821—1940	3
“Always they look at you as a stranger”: affective encounters with the border among irregularised African migrants in Israel	3

Islamist populism? Exploring the MENA region from a comparative and empirical perspective	3
Democracy’s resilience to populism’s threat: Countering global alarmism	2
Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations	2
Guardianship and democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary consolidation, popular contestation	2
Reframing coercive engineered migration theory: Ceuta and the Western Sahara	2
The end of Jihadi Salafism? The religious governance of HTS, the Post-Jihadi rebel ruler in Northern Syria	2
When does the opposition unite? An examination of Lebanon’s 2022 parliamentary election	2
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of power and dissent	2
Revolutionary burnout: Subjective crisis responses and the demobilization of mass protest in Lebanon	2
“Populism in Israel: Netanyahu and the strategic approach”	2
Turkey, the EU, and the Middle East: Foreign policy cooperation and the Arab uprisings	2
Unravelling anti-feminist social network in Turkey: An Analysis of Actors, relationships and political influence	2
Introduction: Socioeconomic reforms in times of political transformation: Conflicts over the political economy in Egypt and Tunisia post-2011	2
Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 Fragile but resilient? Turkish electoral dynamics, 2002-2015 , by Ali Çarkoğlu and Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Ann Ar	2
The making of rivals and strange bedfellows: Patterns of Turkish and Russian security assistance in the Syrian and Libyan civil wars	2
The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition	2
Performing (against) the state	2
Understanding territorial withdrawal: Israeli occupation and exit	2
Egypt: A fragile power Egypt: A fragile power , by Eberhard Kienle, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., USD 42.70 (ebook), ISBN: 9780429805417	2
Obstáculos y retos estructurales en la España constitucional ¿Otra España es posible?	2
The autocratic parliament: Power and Legitimacy in Egypt, 1866-2011	2
Jordanian Islamists and the war on Gaza	2
Secular power Europe and Islam. Identity and Foreign policy	2
Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond Delta democracy: Pathways to incremental civic revolution in Egypt and beyond , by Catherin	1
A theory of gender’s effect on vote shift with a test based on Turkish elections	1
On the scarcity and promise of survey-based studies of international relations and security affairs in the Middle East	1
Strategic misalignment: European security and P/CVE engagement in the Sahel	1
Who defines moderation? Adapting Islamist and Salafi identities in Tunisia to a changing religio-political field	1
Stability source or curse? Fossil fuels and Algeria’s regime stability in the light of EU’s green transition	1
‘The politics of art: Dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan’	1
There and back again: The foreign fighters security threat in the Mediterranean	1
Budget politics and democratization in Tunisia: The loss of consensus and the erosion of trust	1
Syrian Jihadis’ reaction to the Gaza conflict	1
Security assistance, securitization, security systems, and insecurity in the Mediterranean mashriq and maghreb	1
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework	1
Post-salafism by learning: The indigenization of globalized, exclusivist Salafism in Tunisia and Morocco	1
UN mediators in Syria: The challenges and responsibilities of conflict resolution	1
Still on the same path? Italian foreign and defence policy in the Enlarged Mediterranean	1
Spatial clustering of fighting during civil wars: insights from Syria	1
Yemen’s Islamists and the War in Gaza: The interplay of ideology, context, and strategy	1
Understanding the persistence of competitive authoritarianism in algeria	1
Measuring ‘state-diffusion’ in post-conflict authoritarian Syria evidence from the 2021 public opinion survey	1
The limits of China’s engagement in the Mediterranean: Role conflict and emerging mistrust in Spain–China relations	1
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘Failed’ Desert Cities: Autocracy, Urban Planning, and Class Politics in Sadat’s New Town Programme	1
Remembering the Midan : Nostalgia and propaganda in Egyptian media and popular culture	1
Cultural diplomacy and the reconfiguration of soft power: Evidence from Morocco	1
The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices	1
Security assistance to surrogates – how the UAE secures its regional objectives	1
Populist securitization of migration: The anti-immigrant Zafer Party example in Türkiye	1
Changing focus while maintaining balance: Strategic adjustments behind the developing Sino-Saudi relations	1

A quarter-century of studying Euro-Mediterranean relations: A systematic literature review	1
Critical junctures, labour unions, and social dialogue in Tunisia and Lebanon: Implications for the social contract	1
Campaigning for the revolution: Freedom, social justice and citizenship imaginaries in the Egyptian Uprising	1
Role dynamics and trust in France-China coopetition	1
State, society and Islam in the Western regions of the Sahara: Regional interactions and social change	1
Salafis’ hybrid trajectories of socio-political engagement in Tunisia and Algeria. A social movement perspective	1
Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War Friends or foe: Militia intelligence and ethnic violence in the Lebanese Civil War , b	1
Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia: Appraising outsider eclecticism	1