OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	58
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	36
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	35
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	34
The politics of the British model of capitalism’s flatlining productivity and anaemic growth: Lessons for the growth models perspective	32
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	30
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	25
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	22
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	18
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	16
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	12
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	12
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	12
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	11
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	11
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	10
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	10
War and peace in the age of AI	10
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	10
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	9
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	9
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	9

The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	9
A tale of two Europes: How conflating the European Court of Human Rights with the European Union exacerbates Euroscepticism	8
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	8
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	8
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	8
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	8
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	8
Values and multilateralism in world politics	7
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	7
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	7
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	7
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	6
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	6
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	6
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	6
The fall and rise of sovereignty	5
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	5
‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Statecraft and incremental change: Explaining the success of pension reforms in the United Kingdom	5
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	5
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	5
Zeitenwende à la française: Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5
Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy	4
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	4
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	4
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	4
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	4
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	4
The paradox of poor representation: How voter–party incongruence curbs affective polarisation	3
Grasping the opportunity for small state leadership: Estonia’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	3
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	3
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	3
Antisemitism in the global populist international	3
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	3

‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	3
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	3
‘The personal touch’: Campaign personalisation in Britain	3
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	3
Governing global challenges through quantified futures	3
Zeitenwende as a foreign policy identity crisis: Germany and the travails of adaptation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	2
Demand, dysfunction and distribution: The UK growth model from neoliberalism to the knowledge economy	2
Pre-electoral coalitions and cabinet stability in presidential systems	2
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	2
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	2
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation	2
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	2
“Technology” in UK Conservative Party rhetoric, 1979–2019: An integrative dual-method conceptual and ideological analysis	2
The language of priorities: Aneurin Bevan, Welsh labour and the politics of the past	2
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	2
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	2
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	2
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	2
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	2
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	2
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	2
Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status	2
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	2
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	2
Teaching and learning in Brussels: Sinn Féin’s strategic ‘venue shopping’ approach in the European Parliament	2
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition	1
‘It’s All Personal’: State-led mobilisation of diaspora individuals	1
Civil society elites’ challengers in the UK: A frontlash/backlash perspective	1
Neoliberalism versus the market? Liz Truss, neoliberal resilience, and Lacan’s theory of the four discourses	1
The misogynist incel in the news: Analysing representations of gender-based violence in Britain	1
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy	1
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and Inte	1
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	1
Enforcement of international human rights law: A comparative exploration of alternative public opinion channels	1
‘Guided by the science’: (De)politicising the UK government’s response to the coronavirus crisis	1
After the epistemological turn: A framework for studying populism as a knowledge phenomenon	1
‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’: Romantic narratives of the hero in the war of Ukraine	1
Gendering the floating voter: A mixed methods study of gender and undecided voters in Britain	1
Muddied waters: Freedom-of-navigation operations as signals in the South China Sea	1
Rebel diplomacy and negotiated settlement in civil wars	1
The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime after failing him in Ukraine	1
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	1
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	1
Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations: A critical research agenda for the next 25 years	1
Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis	1
Special elections in alternative vote electoral systems: Exploring turnout and the vote in Irish by-elections 1923–2019	1
Enlargement as high politics: New insights on the integration of the German Democratic Republic into the European Community	1
Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945	1
Introduction to special issue: The study of populism in international relations	1
Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity	1
Pride and prejudice: Chinese citizens’ evaluations of democracy in the United States, India and Taiwan	1
Towards increasing regime complexity? Why member states drive overlaps between international organisations	1
The limits of cyberattacks in eroding political trust: A tripartite survey experiment	1
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	1
Prisoners of their own device: Brexit as a failed negotiating strategy	1
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	1
Linguistic justice for non-resident citizens: Protecting language interests away from home	1
Post-truth politics as discursive violence: Online abuse, the public sphere and the figure of ‘the expert’	1
Beyond populism and into the state: The political economy of national-conservatism	1