OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Politics & International Relations is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	76
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	45
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	44
The suspect citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, prevent, and the British Muslim experience	44
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	32
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	26
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	24
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	17
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	16
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	15
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	14
Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa	14
Sources of military change: Emulation, politics, and concept development in UK defence	14
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	14
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	13
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	13
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	12
Demystifying sportswashing: An assemblage theory perspective on authoritarian states’ investment in global sport	12
The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War	12
War and peace in the age of AI	11
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	10
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	10
Global models and post-Brexit discourses: ‘Singapore on Thames’ or ‘Nordic Scotland’?	10
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	10

Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	10
What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990	9
Public opinion and consociationalism in Northern Ireland: Towards the ‘end stage’ of the power-sharing lifecycle?	9
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	9
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	9
New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework	9
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	9
Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	9
Why the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community	8
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	8
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	8
Values and multilateralism in world politics	8
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	7
Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime	7
Status-seeking in wartime: Poland’s leadership aspirations and the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	7
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	7
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	7
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	6
The fall and rise of sovereignty	6
Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros	6
‘Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance: Why spatial policy has failed over time	6
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	6
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea	6
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	6
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Zeitenwende à la française : Continuity and change in French foreign policy after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
ChatGPT as a security threat: US–China security dilemma in the generative AI race	5
‘Taking the border out of politics’?: The 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and the political character of (de)politicisation	4
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	4
Special issue to mark British Journal of Politics and International Relations’ (BJPIR) 25th anniversary	4
Grasping the opportunity for small state leadership: Estonia’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
‘Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community	4
How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration	4
Bureaucratic burdens and bureaucratic injustice	4
Behind the British New Far-Right’s veil: Do individuals adopt strategic liberalism to appear more moderate or are they semi-liberal?	4

Middle England’s empire: Social reproduction in the colonial global economy	4
Ripening time? The Welsh Labour government between Brexit and parliamentary sovereignty	4
The politics of mini-publics: How organisers justify local climate mini-publics in the United Kingdom	4
Understanding the communicative strategies used in online political advertising and how the public views them	3
Reformingsuo tempore: Exploring the unintended consequences of the European Union’s ‘reform actorness’	3
Should we be writing at a time like this? Reflections on abolition, political science, and international relations	3
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory	3
Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign	3
‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people	3
‘Saying it like it is’: Right-wing populism, international politics, and the performance of authenticity	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	3
Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence	3
Foreign policy and citizens’ ontological security: An experimental approach	3
The case of Brexit: How to open a critical juncture without an exogenous shock?	3
J.S. Mill and the Indian land question: From the political economy of small proprietorship to the support of ryots and British Imperialism?	3
Cutting through the noise: The legitimacy of the European Convention on Human Rights in the British press	3
The Queens’ gambit: Women leadership, gender expectations, and interstate conflict	3
‘I know something you don’t know’: The asymmetry of ‘strategic intelligence’ and the great perils of asymmetric alliances	3
Public inquiries into conflict and security: Scandals, archives, and the politics of epistemology	3
Dog-whistling and democracy	2
The politics of regional integration: Domestic support for the enlargement of Mercosur in South America	2
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	2
The dynamics of negativity in media outlets during the Greek sovereign bond crisis	2
Tracing policy change: Intercurrent (de)politicisation and the decline of nationalisation in the 1970s	2
Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: Accusations, rejoinders, and mutual resonances	2
Does being ‘left behind’ corrode government legitimacy? Tax morale and economic stress	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
Getting things done?: Process, performance, and decision-evasion in consociational systems	2
The politics of journal content: Breadth, depth, flexibility and reflexivity in 25 years of BJPIR	2
Identity, cyber-sovereignty, and Ukraine: Towards an ontological security theory of cyberwarfare	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
Obstacles to constitutional participation: Lessons from diverse voices in post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland	2
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’? European radical left parties’ response to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities	2
Looking for the International in international relations and political science: Evidence from author locations in the British Journal of Politics and Inte	2
Visualising state biographical narratives: A rhetorical analysis of Chinese and North Korean propaganda photographs	2