OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Erosion of economic institutions in the age of democratic backsliding: an analysis of the Turkish case	30
Evaluating the advances and challenges in Turkey’s defence industry: a comparative analysis	19
The 2023 Turkish election: a tale of two campaigns and the duel of populisms	10
The Greek military dictatorship: Revisiting a troubled past 1967 – 1974	10
The way out of a crisis? the role of cities in Europeanization: a study of Thessaloniki city diplomacy	10
Europeanisation of spatial planning. The Western Balkans between innovation and resistance	8
The montreux convention: a key for understanding the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea	8
On the footsteps of parents? Migration experience and aspirations of university students in Moldova	8
Natural resource governance in the Bulgarian Black Sea: Identifying context-sensitive institutional arrangements	8
Turkish parliamentary debates about the international recognition of the Armenian genocide: development and variations in the official denialism	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
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear	6
Nationalizing the multi-ethnic borderlands: state surveillance and security policies in interwar Turkey and Romania	6
Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections	6
The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans	6
The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe	5
Elections and partisanship: analyzing the results of the 2023 general elections in Turkey	5
Memorial essay Feroz Ahmad’s contribution to Turkish studies	5
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	5
Intertwined narratives of urban modernization and Europeanization in the Balkans: a feminist analysis	5
The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy	5
Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation	5
Before and after 2014: Russo-Ukrainian conflict and its impact on European identity discourses in Ukraine	5
S400s, sanctions and defiance: explaining Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy and the US response	5
The United States and Greek-Turkish relations: the guardian’s dilemma	5

Marine trade and analysis of the ports in the Black Sea economic cooperation region	5
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	5
Sovereignty suspended: building the so-called state	4
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as indicator of regime type: contemporary Serbian – Turkish relations	4
Changing perceptions of Turkish armed forces: taking stock of partisanship	4
Right-wing populism in Turkey and the 2023 elections	4
Eurosceptic games in the EU candidate states: the case of Georgia	4
Everyday boundaries, borders and post-conflict societies	4
New democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal?	4
Turkish-American strategic partnership: isTurkeystill a faithful ally?	4
The origins of the youth’s political trust in Southeastern Europe	4
Notice of duplicate publication: Revisiting the authoritarian pattern in Turkey: transition to presidential system	4
Turkey’s public–private partnership experience: a political economy perspective	4
Decoding the impact of covid-19 on everyday life practices of Syrian refugees: an investigation at the neighbourhood level	4
Characterization of workers’ specific summer holiday practices in the Yugoslav socialist socio-economic context	3
‘Pockets of efficiency’ in a low capacity state: dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania	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
Turkey’s energy diplomacy and instrumentalization of hard power	3
Turkey’s military cooperation network through bilateral relations: the transition from military support recipient to provider	3
The ‘ascendance’ of deism in Turkey: Context, drivers and debate	3
Reconstruction of the ‘regional power’ role during the pandemic: Turkey’s COVID-19 diplomacy towards the balkans	3
Crisis and reform in Greece: a theoretical discussion on the domestic policy environment	3
Assessing Greece’s transition to digital diplomacy: insights from Twitter/X (2021–2022)	3
Chechen diaspora members as foreign fighters in Syria and Ukraine: a diachronic study	3
Policy diffusion in unlikely places: between emulation and coercion in northern Cyprus	3
Building russkiy mir online – Russia´s competing narratives	3
Turkey’s engagement in international education as an emerging donor country: action, rationale and potential future development	3
Beyond conflict and coexistence: cosmopolitanism and inter-communal relations in late Ottoman cities	3
The long-term effects of war exposure on generalized trust and risk attitudes: evidence from post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
The Nexus between intelligence and foreign policy in the Turkish context: strategic implications of the MIT’s transformation	2
Peace and security in the Western Balkans: a local perspective	2
Debating the hard power turn in Turkish foreign policy	2
Turkey in-between the EU and China: from Europeanization to cooperation with China	2
Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan	2
Governance crises and resilience of authoritarian populism: 2023 Turkish elections from the perspective of Hirschman’s ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’	2
When Fake News and Personal Experience Contradict: Limits to Post-Truth in Turkey	2
Party change and cleavage shifting in the global South: the case of Ecevit’s CHP in Turkey	2
A discourse analysis approach to the concept of the blue economy in Montenegro	2
Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents’ health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece	2
The establishment of the Ukrainian diaspora in Turkey through migrant associations: ‘We feel as part of the diaspora from now on.’	2
Being small in a large club: unpacking Armenia’s actorness in the Eurasian Economic Union	2
Local Commemorations, False Heroes, and Hijacked Memories: Post-Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing Politics of Memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska (RS)	2
Believing and belonging? Religious salience and politicality of young Bosnian Muslims in the time of Islamophobia	2
Understanding Cypriot youth views on peace: bottom-up experiences of everyday peace	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
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	2
‘Undivided’ city in a divided society: explaining the peaceful coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo	2
Involvement of the Gulf Cooperation Council States in Kosovo: development assistance, soft power, and neofundamentalism	2
Venizelos: the making of a Greek statesman, 1864-1914	2

Diaspora politics and religious diplomacy in Turkey and Morocco