OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of International Relations and Development is 5. 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
Staying alive: how international organisations struggle to remain relevant policy players	10
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
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers	9
The Ukrainian subject, hierarchies of knowledge production and the everyday: An autoethnographic narrative	8
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
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’: beyond Ottoman patrimonialism	7
Autonomy and international organisations	7
A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques	7
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

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
Twinning and development: a genealogy of depoliticisation	5
‘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