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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders	38
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	21
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	19
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	15
London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties	15
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	15
Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy	13
On the outside looking in? Role location, capability claims, and the EU’s role in the Arctic	13
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	12
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council: expert cliques, recognition cycles, and the emergence of new practice	11
The Schengen Area as a fair-weather project? A discursive analysis of solidarity	11
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	11
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	11
Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan	10
Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’	10
Translating global norms on crime to schools: analysing textbook lessons on the trafficking of humans in the United States, Nigeria and Germany	10
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	10
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	9
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	9
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda	9
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	9
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	8
Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	8

Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	8
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	8
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	8
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	7
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	7
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	6
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	6
Polish society’s humanitarian uprising: ad-hoc, needs-based partnerships supporting Ukraine	6
In ‘crisis’ we trust? On (un)intentional knowledge distortion and the exigency of terminological clarity in academic and political discourses on Russia’s war against Ukraine	6
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	5
Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South	5
‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans	5
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	4
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	4
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	4
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	4
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	4
Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism	3
Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres	3
Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity	3
Technocracy that fails: a Czech perspective on the EU	3
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	3
Regionalism and regional organisations: exploring the dynamics of institutional formation and change in Latin America	3
Forum-shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime complex	2
Resistance as resilience: negotiating gendered contours in conflict and trauma	2
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	2
Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM	2
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio	2
Regaining cohesion: a study of discursive preconditions for mobilization in the Russia-Ukraine war	2
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	2
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
A healthy peace: public good provision and post-civil war peace stability	2
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	2
Mothers’ grief and love in war and resistance: visuals, aesthetics and storytelling	2
The consolidation dilemma in European order transformation: theorising endogenous pathways to the contestation of liberalism	2