OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis	24
Populist patterns in post-conflict settlement: leadership discursive strategies in the Serbia-Kosovo status dispute	14
Geopolitical continuity? An analysis of the Turkish Straits and Russian ambitions	13
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case	13
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 1974	12
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy	12
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova	11
Greek parties’ stances on climate change: revisiting Europeanization	10
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms	10
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism	10
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance	10
The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans	9
Nationalizing the multi-ethnic borderlands: state surveillance and security policies in interwar Turkey and Romania	9
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea	9
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections	8
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea: Identifying context-sensitive institutional arrangements	8
Leader’s reaction to exogenous political shocks breaks the path: changes in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership traits after the e-memorandum and AKP closure cases	8
Opposition’s paradox of victory: electoral success and authoritarian retrenchment in Turkey	8
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear	8
Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis	8
A poliheuristic analysis of the Euphrates Shield operation in Syria: towards an extended framework	8
Securitization of gender as a modus operandi of populism: anti-gender discourses on the Istanbul Convention in the context of AKP’s illiberal transformation	8
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe	8
The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy	8
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma	7

Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey	7
S400s, sanctions and defiance: explaining Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy and the US response	7
The EU and global climate justice. Normative power caught in normative battles The EU and global climate justice. Normative power caught in normative battles , by Franzi	6
Europeanization and urban transformation in Southeast Europe: introduction	6
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine	6
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe	6
Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path	6
Marine trade and analysis of the ports in the Black Sea economic cooperation region	6
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies	6
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system	5
Everyday boundaries, borders and post-conflict societies	5
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as indicator of regime type: contemporary Serbian – Turkish relations	5
Roma rights in Turkey: De- europeanization as a form of contestation	5
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level	5
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship	5
Political agency in antagonistic contexts: Turkey and the politics of disaster	5
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia	5
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections	4
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion: a quest for ‘better democracy’?	4
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in Northern Cyprus	4
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives	4
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?	4
Contesting the EU? China’s engagement with Türkiye and the Western Balkans	4
Turkish-American strategic partnership: isTurkeystill a faithful ally?	4
Securitization and digital diplomacy: Zelenskyy’s ‘security-tweet’ during the Russia-Ukraine war	4
Turkey’s public–private partnership experience: a political economy perspective	4
Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider	4
Characterization of workers’ specific summer holiday practices in the Yugoslav socialist socio-economic context	4
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study	4
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate	4
Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China	3
The establishment of the Ukrainian diaspora in Turkey through migrant associations: ‘We feel as part of the diaspora from now on.’	3
Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’	3
Beyond conflict and coexistence: cosmopolitanism and inter-communal relations in late Ottoman cities	3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development	3
Aviation diplomacy: Qatar Airways in the South Caucasus	3
Far from the inner sanctum of Europe due to the legacies of the past: the use of analogy in the discourse on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans	3
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)	3
Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan	3
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy	3
Personalization of the electoral system and political parties: lessons from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Correction	3
Reconstruction of the ‘regional power’ role during the pandemic: Turkey’s COVID-19 diplomacy towards the balkans	3
The long-term effects of war exposure on generalized trust and risk attitudes: evidence from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power	3
Religion, patriarchy and female employment in Turkey: the case of faith-based organizations	3
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization: the AKP case of Turkey	3
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment	3
Being small in a large club: unpacking Armenia’s actorness in the Eurasian Economic Union	2
The Politics of a Disillusioned Europe: East Central Europe After the Fall of Communism	2

Populist foreign policy: cases of Argentina, Colombia, Türkiye, and Venezuela	2
Volatile party systems and electoral reforms: a comparative analysis of Lithuanian and Turkish reforms	2
Counter-terrorism in the age of hard power: reassessing Turkey’s policy against the PKK	2
Believing and belonging? Religious salience and politicality of young Bosnian Muslims in the time of Islamophobia	2
The Nexus between intelligence and foreign policy in the Turkish context: strategic implications of the MIT’s transformation	2
Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment , by Rita Cal	2
Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents’ health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece	2
‘Undivided’ city in a divided society: explaining the peaceful coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo	2
Diaspora politics and religious diplomacy in Turkey and Morocco	2
Memory makers: the politics of the past in Putin’s Russia	2
From ‘revolution’ to war: deciphering Armenia’s populist foreign policy-making process	2
1821–1831: Transition from pre-modernity to modern society in Greece	2
Narrative interventions in the framework of Manifesta 14 reviving and questioning the murky collective memory in Prishtina	2
Contesting the norm contester: responses to Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention	2
When Fake News and Personal Experience Contradict: Limits to Post-Truth in Turkey	2
Local Commemorations, False Heroes, and Hijacked Memories: Post-Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Politics of Memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska (RS)	2
Party change and cleavage shifting in the global South: the case of Ecevit’s CHP in Turkey	2
Understanding Cypriot youth views on peace: bottom-up experiences of everyday peace	2
Black garden aflame: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Soviet and Russian Press	2
Long after Dayton: a journey through visual representations of war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
The failure of Islamization policies in Turkey: a “Victory” of Secularization Theory?	2
Securitization and authoritarianism: the AKP’s oppression of dissident groups in Turkey	2
A discourse analysis approach to the concept of the blue economy in Montenegro	2
Peace and security in the Western Balkans: a local perspective	2
Involvement of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kosovo: development assistance, soft power, and neofundamentalism	2
Unpacking normative power Europe: European Union’s promotion of climate change norms in Türkiye	2
A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the strategic plans of Istanbul under different political administrations	1
Roma in the history of Montenegro – displacement, marginalization and discrimination	1
Far-Right vigilantes and crime: law and order providers or common criminals? The lessons from Greece, Russia, and Ukraine	1
Complementarity between the EU and NATO in light of the war in Ukraine: an analysis from the perspective of collective securitization theory	1
Love migrants as digital citizens: Turkish-speaking diaspora in Athens	1
LGBTI politics and value change in Ukraine and Turkey	1
Politics of household indebtedness in Turkey	1
“If you can’t beat them – join them”: explaining Milli Görüş movement’s views towards the West	1
Threats and the conservative shift in public opinion: comparative causal mediation analyses from Turkey	1
The perception of volunteering in Türkiye: socio-cultural factors and structural-institutional continuities	1
European Capital of Culture title as a driving force of urban transformation: the case of Novi Sad	1
From protest to governance: political discourse of the Self-Determination Movement in Kosovo — between consociationalism and populism	1
‘Let the black sea unite Us’: the 1967 Soviet-Turkish industrial agreement and Ankara’s cold war rapprochement with Moscow	1
Revisiting the modern infrastructure ideal: present as past in neo-Ottoman Istanbul	1
Nation and state ideology debates in Montenegro: the case of Vukašin Marković	1
Relations between Turkey and Kosovo: factors and dynamics	1
State-building and the recognition of a right to statehood: international involvement in post-1999 Kosovo	1
Suitcase Europeanization: the urban transformation of Northern Greece through the Gastarbeiter migration and return (1960-1981)	1
Engaging minorities under emergency: Turkish modular emergency and the Kurdish case revisited	1
Tracing the development of Kosovar and Albanian identities using urban toponyms	1
Scope, drivers and manifestations of the realist turn in Turkish foreign policy: a case of delayed strategic adjustment	1
Discursive (re)production of social cleavages in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections	1
Revisiting dark pasts: the portrayal of Jewish minority and audience responses to the Netflix series The Club	1
Infrastructure diplomacy and strategic signalling within the Three Seas Initiative	1
Hedging strategy of Turkey in great power competition	1
‘The law comes first?’: the dynamics of victims’ redress in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Emotions in a diaspora’s interpretation of political developments in their place of origin: the case of Australian Armenians from Turkey	1
The meaning of the Western Balkans concept for the EU: genuine inclusion or polite exclusion?	1
Turkey and the EU: waning foreign policy alignment in a changing international context	1
Regime Change in Turkey: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism and Hegemony	1
Trust us, we know what we are doing: institutional trust in Croatia during the COVID-19 crisis	1
The impact of education on improving labour market outcomes in developing countries – evidence from Kosovo	1
NGOization, politicization and polarization of Roma civil society in Turkey	1
Why resist?: opposition to mask-wearing during the Covid-19 pandemic in Greece	1
A difficult change: norm contestation in multiple veto player settings	1
Assessing the determinants of multi-layered dimensions of energy poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina: challenges and pathways forward	1
Population censuses and identity politics in the Republic of Croatia	1
Assessing centralization: on Turkey’s rising personalist regime	1
Economic voting in the 2023 Turkish general election	1
Securitizing the Aegean: de-Europeanizing Greek–Turkish relations	1
Correction	1
Tying loose ends: political parties and individual private funding in Romania	1