OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Politics 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Exposing the binding chains of discursive bondage	29
Between ambition and ambiguity: reconsidering Watson’s discussion of (semiperipheral) marcher states	23
Conceptualizing religion and religious ideology in political science research: what is in a name and what description can do	21
The G20 reciprocal socialization for global coordination on sovereign debt and development: perspective of China	15
Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	13
The Philippines in the face of the Ukraine–Russia War: from confusion and disorientation to critical neutrality	12
Brexit and ‘Global Britain’: role adaptation and contestation in trade policy	11
Restraining power through institutions: a unifying theme for domestic and international politics	11
EU–Russia energy cooperation: implications for Lithuania’s energy security	10
Germany and Nord Stream 2: evolution and end of an incongruous policy	10
Going global: British abolitionists and the campaign to export anti-slavery	10
The ‘China Threat’: Stereotypical representations in the US competition with China	9
Rethinking multilateralism: domestic incentives of multilateral aid	9
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order	9
Determined diplomacy: land, law, and the strategic outreach of self-determination governments	9
Making up is hard to do: reconciliation after interstate war	9
Foreign policy free agents: how lawmakers and coalitions on the political margins help set boundaries for US foreign policy	9
Regional powers and the politics of scale	8
Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO	8
Singapore’s stand on Russia’s war against Ukraine: Hobson’s choice?	7
Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy	7
Correction to: Contempt, fear, and hubris: the 2008 Russian–Georgian war through the lens of affect	7
Small European states and Brexit: comparing the coping strategies of Portugal and Finland	7
South Korea: siding with the west and distancing from Russia	6
The regional powers’ research programme in international relations: a critical assessment	6

Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty	6
The Council of Europe, Russia, and the future of European cooperation: any lessons to be learned from the past?	6
The impact of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy: the cases of Angola and Sudan	6
Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states	6
The paperwork of plunder: how rebels govern illicit resources	6
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies	6
Beyond the neoconservative legacy in American counterterrorism policy: from George W. Bush to forever war	5
Alliance politics across the Indo-Pacific: an offensive realist analysis of the QUAD’s transformation	5
Russia, NATO and the view from the East	5
Nuclear energy and international relations: the external strategy of Russia’s Rosatom	5
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia	5
What kind of vision(s)? The far-right and European security	5
The ethno-nationalist logic of authoritarian protection: Russia’s war against Ukraine	5
Introduction: Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race—A Conversation	5
Analysing the policy process of China’s political accountability in the prevention and control of COVID-19	5
Director, Global Summitry Project, teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto	5
Introduction to the forum: Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations	5
Explaining the “cult of toughness”: in-group fear, Kennedy’s reputation for weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 1961	5
Correction to: Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation	4
Strategic autonomy in Turkish foreign policy in an age of multipolarity: lineages and contradictions of an idea	4
America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus	4
Discontinuities in Greece’s Middle Eastern foreign policy practice	4
A critical evaluation of rationalist IR in the analysis of informal institutions	4
Introduction: the settler-colonial framing of Palestine—Matters of Justice and Truth	4
Humanitarian logics in the evolution of international society	4
Reflections: the UK after Brexit	4
Avoiding and exploiting the tragedy of the commons: fishing, crime, and conflict in the South China Sea	4
Between a rock and a hard place: small states, vulnerabilities and Greek foreign policy	4
Washington and tragicomedy: emploting the ‘Chinese threat’	4
The Bush Doctrine redux: changes and continuities in American grand strategy since ‘9/11’	4
Correction to: Brakeman or booster? Presidents, ideological polarization, reciprocity, and the politics of US arms control	4
Deliberations on ‘The Self, and Other Stories’ by Laura J. Shepherd	4
Putin’s Ukraine aggression: how should an African respond?	4
Technology, culture and critical theory: an interview with Andrew Feenberg	3
Australia and the Ukraine crisis: deterring authoritarian expansionism	3
Arrighi’s pendulum: (Re)reading The Evolution of International Society in the twenty-first century	3
Considering liberation beyond statehood (deferred)	3
Signaling virtue: legitimacy, reputation, and NATO’s strategic communications during the war in Ukraine	3
Contemplating Palestine: matters of truth and justice with rage, love and anger	3
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu	3
Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?	3
Love, hope, and hopelessness	3
Structured description, foreign policy analysis, and policy quality during the Biden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan	3
Tracing bilateral security cooperation: the asymmetric deterioration of US–Venezuelan defense relations	3
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty	3
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy	3
International borders and armed conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia since 1945: the moral hazard of great-power encroachments	3
Hydrohegemony in the context of Shatt al-Arab River: from coercion to consent	3
From Kantian friendship to Benthamite partnership: transatlantic relations under Donald Trump	3
Israel/Palestine: political futures	3

The EU’s performance in rural Georgia: the common agricultural policy’s relevance, effectiveness, and impact	3
Gender inclusion and rebel strategy: legitimacy seeking behavior in rebel groups	3
Rebel courts and rebel legitimacy	3
Beyond hierarchy: regional orders in the twenty-first century	3
Raced and gendered inequities in the discipline of political science	3
Mapping the emotional terrain of foreign policy	2
Smaller Gulf states and competing geopolitical scripts in the Indo-Pacific	2
More than a catchphrase: rethinking Adam Watson’s raison de système in international society	2
Fear the fear: the historical analogies of COVID-19 in US–China relations	2
Fin-de-siècle Anglotopian unionist visions: a review of Duncan Bell’s dreamworlds of race	2
Living in the slipstream of defeat: neoliberalism and the far-right	2
Queering Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon	2
Adam Watson and international relations: a contemporary reassessment—introduction	2
Ontological (In)security of majorities: introduction	2
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’	2
Resisting climate change vulnerability: feminist and decolonial insights	2
Explaining Wikileaks and Julian Assange as structural threats to the liberal ideological hegemony of American foreign policy	2
Introduction: Decolonizing Palestine—the content of liberation	2
No exit: why U.S. policy on Europe in counterproductive and what to do about it	2
The EU and its paradoxes: enforcing stability not promoting democracy	2
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: methods, topics, and impact	2
The Russia–Ukraine war and inter-state dynamics in the Indo-Pacific	2
The right and justice of subsistence wars as necessity: a Grotian account	2
Formality of international organizations: a multidimensional approach	2
Hierarchy and status: a response	2
Introduction to forum: anticolonial fragments	2
Correction to: Multi-alignment and India’s response to the Russia–Ukraine war	2
Anticolonial Violence and Decolonial Liberation	2
Oil dependency and democratic outcomes in the Middle East: a comparative analysis of resource-rich and resource-scarce states	2
Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad	2
Qatar–Türkiye relations during the embargo of Qatar: a case study in derivative power	2
The diplomacy of ‘Global Britain’: settling, safeguarding and seeking status	2
A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?	2
China’s efforts to increase discourse power in the Arctic and Antarctica through fisheries management	2
On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love	2
Adam Smith’s influence on British reform movements of the early-to-mid-19th century	2
Anti-gender agenda and the current authoritarian turn in global politics: comparative lessons from Brazil and central Europe	2
Racism and global war in world politics: As obvious as it is ignored	2
Three histories of the system of states	2
An apex of the racialization of the world	2
The praxis of Azmi Bishara: envisioning and building toward the liberation of Palestine	2
George W. Bush’s post-9/11 East Asia policy: enabling China’s contemporary assertiveness	2