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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders	41
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	24
London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties	19
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	17
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	16
On the outside looking in? Role location, capability claims, and the EU’s role in the Arctic	15
Populism in international relations: champion diplomacy	15
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	13
The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace	13
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council: expert cliques, recognition cycles, and the emergence of new practice	12
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	12
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	12
Changes to the publication model	12
The Schengen Area as a fair-weather project? A discursive analysis of solidarity	11
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	11
Translating global norms on crime to schools: analysing textbook lessons on the trafficking of humans in the United States, Nigeria and Germany	11
Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan	11
Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’	10
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	9
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	9
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda	9
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	8
‘We are at war’: Reflections on positionality and research as negotiation in post-2022 Ukraine	8
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	8

Translating the norm bundle of an international regime: states’ pledges on climate change around the 2015 Paris conference	8
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	6
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	6
Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	6
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	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	5
AI and academic publishing	5
Knowing Afghanistan: interveners’ knowledge production in the in-between	5
Polish society’s humanitarian uprising: ad-hoc, needs-based partnerships supporting Ukraine	5
From Duterte to Orbán: the political economy of autocratic hedging	4
Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements	4
US foreign policy elites and the great rejuvenation of the ideological China threat: The role of rhetoric and the ideologization of geopolitical threats	4
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	4
Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance	4
‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans	4
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	4
Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South	4
Technocracy that fails: a Czech perspective on the EU	3
Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres	3
Legislative communities. Conceptualising and mapping international parliamentary relations	3
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio	3
Regionalism and regional organisations: exploring the dynamics of institutional formation and change in Latin America	3
Good(s) for everyone? Policy area competition and institutional topologies in the regime complexes of tax avoidance and intellectual property	3
Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity	3
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
Central European subalterns speak security (too): Towards a truly post-Western feminist security studies	2
Mothers’ grief and love in war and resistance: visuals, aesthetics and storytelling	2
Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis	2
Forum-shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime complex	2
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	2
Normalize and rationalize: Intellectuals of statecraft and Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
Transnational kleptocracy and the international political economy of authoritarianism	2
Regaining cohesion: a study of discursive preconditions for mobilization in the Russia-Ukraine war	2
Right(s) practice: normative competence negotiation in the struggles over human rights protection in AMISOM	2
Reluctant acceptance of legal solutions to territorial disputes as signals of foreign policy reorientation	2