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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of comparison and the making of international orders	38
Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces	19
(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings	19
An international responsibility to develop in order to protect? A responsibility too far	16
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
Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border	12
On the outside looking in? Role location, capability claims, and the EU’s role in the Arctic	12
The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation	12
Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	11
Constructing a sustainable ‘tomorrow’: iconic architecture and progressive neoliberal place-making in Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Little Africa’	11
Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya	11
The Schengen Area as a fair-weather project? A discursive analysis of solidarity	11
Arms embargo monitoring at the UN Security Council: expert cliques, recognition cycles, and the emergence of new practice	11
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda	10
Translating global norms on crime to schools: analysing textbook lessons on the trafficking of humans in the United States, Nigeria and Germany	10
Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan	10
Czechs and Germans in the twenty years’ crisis: Mackinder, Carr and Wiskemann on Central and Eastern Europe after the peace	9
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
International relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states	9
Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?	9
How peace narratives avoid or invoke ontological insecurity: South Korean language games about building peace with North Korea	9
‘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
Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds	8
IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics	7
Technology in the quest for status: the Russian leadership’s artificial intelligence narrative	7
Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China	7
When structural factors that cause interethnic violence work in favour of peace: The story of Baljvine, a warless Bosnian-Herzegovinian peace mosaic	7
Crisis narratives and institutional resilience: a framework for analysis	6
A threat rather than a resource: why voicing internal criticism is difficult in international organisations	6
Polish society’s humanitarian uprising: ad-hoc, needs-based partnerships supporting Ukraine	6
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety	6
Uses of ‘the East’ in international studies: provincialising IR from Central and Eastern Europe	5
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
Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory	5
‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans	5
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
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
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
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism	4
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
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
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide: inescapable dread in the 2020s	3
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
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
Forum-shifting from above and below: international stratification and the fragmentation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime complex	2
The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine	2
Balkan subjects in intervention literature: the politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction	2
How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war	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
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
Regaining cohesion: a study of discursive preconditions for mobilization in the Russia-Ukraine war	2
Resistance as resilience: negotiating gendered contours in conflict and trauma	2
Mothers’ grief and love in war and resistance: visuals, aesthetics and storytelling	2
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	2
The consolidation dilemma in European order transformation: theorising endogenous pathways to the contestation of liberalism	2