OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of International Relations and Development 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign aid donors, domestic actors, and human rights violations: the politics and diplomacy of opposing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act	32
International relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states	27
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	24
How individuals shape informal institutions: Analyzing contending norm promotion in the Global South	19
Why is anxiety’s positive potential so rarely realised? Creativity and change in international politics	14
Archives of border crossing: Crafting emotional proximity and distance on the walls of Athens	14
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders	11
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	11
Balkan subjects in intervention literature: the politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction	10
The role of citizens’ affective media practices in participatory warfare during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	10
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	10
Placing machine learning into the hermeneutic circle: a combined computational-interpretive method for text analysis	10
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	10
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	10
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
Correction to: Leveraging weakness into strength: how neo-patrimonial oil-producing countries survive economic crises	8
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	8
Correction: Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way	8
The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday: An autoethnographic narrative	8
Autonomy and international organisations	7
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	7
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism	7
Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy	6
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	6
What my body taught me about being a scholar of Ukraine and from Ukraine in times of Russia’s war of aggression	6

How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war	6
The public as an audience for the securitisation of climate change: facilitating conditions at the identification stage	6
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	6
Czechs and Germans in the twenty years’ crisis: Mackinder, Carr and Wiskemann on Central and Eastern Europe after the peace	6
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	6
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	5
The consolidation dilemma in European order transformation: theorising endogenous pathways to the contestation of liberalism	5
London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties	5
Captive minds: the function and agency of Eastern Europe in International Security Studies	5
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide: inescapable dread in the 2020s	5
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	5
Stratification gone awry: system rigidity, agency restraint and tiered membership in intergovernmental organizations	5
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	5
The Interrelationship Between Gender and European Union Foreign Policy: A Feminist Institutionalist Analysis of EULEX Kosovo, EUPOL COPPS and EUMM Georgia	5
Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	5
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	5
Twinning and development: a genealogy of depoliticisation	5
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	4
African exceptions: democratic development in small island states	4
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	4
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	4
Memory politics and the study of crises in International Relations: insights from Ukraine and Lithuania	4
Anxiety, subjectivity and the possibility of emancipatory politics	4
A selective right to rule: interventions and authority certifications in Libya	4
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	4
Regionalism and regional organisations: exploring the dynamics of institutional formation and change in Latin America	4
Technocracy that fails: a Czech perspective on the EU	4
Editorial	3
Stimmung and ontological security: anxiety, euphoria, and emerging political subjectivities during the 2015 ‘border opening’ in Germany	3
Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism	3
Correction to: Explaining Brazil as a rising state, 2003‒2014: the role of policy diffusion as an international regulatory instrument	3
Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	3
Exploring neoliberal resilience: the transnational politics of austerity in Czechia	3
How old are the first European inter-polity systems? The case for the Bronze Age	3
Cooperative counter-hegemony, interregionalism and ‘diminished multilateralism’: the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)	3
Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres	3
The stigmatisation of Central Europe via (failed) socialisation narrative	3
The normative security dilemma in making sense of the Kremlin	3
Treasures in the backyard: how a peaceful region can contribute to the study of international conflicts	2
Explaining suspicious wealth: legal enablers, transnational kleptocracy, and the failure of the UK’s Unexplained Wealth Orders	2
Survival and status in the liberal international order: the grantors of recognition	2
Salient discourses in international society: When and how have United Nations global conferences acted as catalysts?	2
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio	2
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety	2
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	2
Do international relations scholars not care about Central and Eastern Europe or do they just take the region for granted? A conclusion to the special issue	2
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	2
When mass atrocities are silenced: Germany and the cases of Yemen, South Sudan, and Myanmar	2
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	2
Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity	2