OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Politics & International Relations is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The United Kingdom’s Rejoin movement: A post-Brexit analysis of framing strategies	69
Life after Whitehall: The career moves of British special advisers	42
‘A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism	40
Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate	39
Parliamentarians versus party members? Leadership selection systems in the British Conservative and Labour parties	33
Strategic profiles and tactical shifts: Rethinking China’s digital diplomacy	28
Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy	24
Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election	20
‘Building back better’? Adaptive social protection and futures of protracted crisis	18
Return to Europe? Institutional choice, outsider status, and Britain’s response to the Ukraine War	15
Strategic aid allocation in response to terrorism	15
Why do parties (not) support Universal Basic Income? The case of the UK Liberal Democrats	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
Signalling through implicature: How India signals in the Indo-Pacific	13
War and peace in the age of AI	13
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming	12
Can the ‘downward spiral’ of material conditions, mental health and faith in government be stopped? Evidence from surveys in ‘red wall’ constituencies	12
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation	12
State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions	11
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
Britain’s COVID-19 battle: The role of political leaders in shaping the responses to the pandemic	10
Local party members’ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion	10
Numbers as Utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures	10

Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership	10
The Ukraine invasion: Hierarchy, discipline and counterbalance	9
The social media audience of diplomatic crisis	9
Contextual factors, transnationalism attitudes, and support for GAL-TAN parties within European metropolises: Insights from London	9
The case for methodological naturalisation: Between political theory and political science	9
Values and multilateralism in world 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
Merely the ‘art of winning elections’? Regrounding the statecraft interpretation of British politics	8
‘Asset-based welfare’: The social policy corollary of the Anglo-liberal growth model?	7
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: Explaining Sweden’s decision to join NATO	7
From multilateralism to bilateralism: Making sense of the UK’s security cooperation with EU member states after 2016	7
The origins of the Anglosphere idea and the contestation of Australian nationhood, 1991–2007	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
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy: The Sino-British Declaration 1984	6
The democratic public and the practices of the oppressed	6
Chips and democracy: Analysing American support for military interventions	6
Introduction to special issue: ‘Foreign policy signaling in the Indo-Pacific: Responses to the US-China rivalry in a multipolar world’	6
Comparing Sinn Féin between North and South: Do institutional context and varying public attitudes drive party policy preferences?	6
A worlds-eye view of the United Kingdom through parliamentary e-petitions	6
The gender gap in voter turnout: An artefact of men’s over-reporting in survey research?	6
The fall and rise of sovereignty	5
‘Let me tell you what I believe’: Narratives, storytelling and ethos building, the case of Tory leaders (2005–2023)	5
Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning	5
Crafting innovation hubs: Future cities and global challenges	5
Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific	5
Capital cities in multi-level settings: Assessing Scottish and Welsh residents’ perceptions of London, Edinburgh and Cardiff	5
Government short-termism and the management of global challenges	5
Public attitudes towards international trade and free trade agreements in the United Kingdom	5
Recognition through dialogue: How transatlantic relations anchor the EU’s identity	5
Competing or complementary? Local and national competitiveness as explanatory factors of turnout in SMP systems	5
Rethinking China’s ‘economic coercion’: The case of the UK leaders’ meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2012	5
The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation	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
Exploring the political character of decision-making: The BJPIR and the politics of (de)politicisation	5
Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics	5