OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Turkey, the EU and the Middle East: foreign policy cooperation and the Arab uprisings	17
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	17
Brexit and Malta’s coping strategies: diverging shelters	17
Handbook of human mobility and migration	15
Challenges to energy policy in the context of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict. An overview of the case of Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey	13
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	13
Democratic decay and authoritarian resurgence	13
Russia and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals	12
Europe and the decline of social democracy in Britain: from Attlee to Brexit	12
Migration and populism in Bulgaria	10
Invasion of Ukraine: Frames and sentiments in Zelensky’s Twitter communication	10
Generational differences in the identification of Europeans: the role of the great recession	10
Mass housing: modern architecture and state power: a global history	9
EU’s ‘Eastern discontents’ – when ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ politicisation collide – the case of Romania in the future of Europe debate	9
The global actorness of the EU seen from the Korean media and elites: a capability-expectations gap or an expectations deficit?	9
Institutional quality convergence in the Euro area countries: a note and further evidence	8
Depoliticising the people: post-normative power Europe in the women-led protests in Belarus	8
European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times	8
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	8
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	7
Myth of the near future? Assessing the European Green Deal’s potential to become a political myth for the European Union	7
Brexit and the EU Settlement Scheme: Continuity and rupture with the European Union	6
No school of hard knocks: education policies and ideologies of Slovak far-right parties	6
Europeanization as a hegemonic process: the counter-hegemonic coal phase-out struggle in Turkey	6
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	6

Brexit and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in comparison: EU principles and practices of governing the neighbourhood	6
EU socio- economic governance in central and Eastern Europe: the European semester and national employment policies	6
Contesting cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, crisis and borders	6
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	6
The comparative politics of immigration: policy choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland and the USA	6
An unhealthy relationship? The reputational risks of Europe’s health focused public diplomacy in Africa	5
Partial democratization and healthcare reforms in a hybrid regime: the case of Georgia	5
Experience of economic hardship and right-wing political orientation hinder climate concern among European young people	5
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	5
A divorce of convenience: exploring radical right populist parties’ position on Putin’s Russia within the context of the Ukrainian war. A social media perspective	5
Antiestablishment populism in Bulgaria: mainstreaming in the digital era	5
Ontological insecurity and securitization dynamics: the co-constitution of borders between Italy and the EU after the refugee crisis of 2015	5
Black garden aflame: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Soviet and Russian press	5
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain	5
The paradox of inclusion: future engagement or disengagement between the EU and Turkey in the context of the Green Deal	5
Unemployment as fertile ground for electoral support of the radical left: evidence from the european regions in the first two decades of the 21st century	5
The sense of nations for cooperation. How threat perception and ideology influence counterterrorism cooperation between EU members	5
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	5
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation	5
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	5
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	4
Beyond anger: the populist radical right on TikTok	4
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	4
Germany’s benchmark status in the Eurozone	4
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland	4
When do football fans tend to acquire a more Europeanised mind-set? The impact of participation in European club competitions	4
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	4
Repressing the Protests through Law, Police and Discourse: the Example of the Yellow Vests’ Movement in France	4
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe	4
The ‘pure polish people’ vs the ‘European elite’ – how do populism and Euroscepticism interact in Polish politics?	4
Normalizing far right party rhetoric: the impact of media populist frames and coverage on the electoral prospects of far-right parties in the case of Cyprus	4
The political construction of the ‘citizen turn’ in the EU: disintermediation and depoliticisation in the Conference on the Future of Europe	4
Disrupting European politics? Rhetorical analysis of MEP Manon Aubry’s politicising strategies in Twitter	4
Abuses of the past by the Italian far right: a first assessment of the Meloni government	4
FortressEurope integrating through division: an actantial narrative analysis	3
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope	3
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	3
Grand strategy in 10 words: a guide to great power politics in the 21^st century	3
A thorough look into the state-market divide: depoliticisation of privatisation in post-crisis Greece	3
Becoming more and more European: nationhood, Europe, and same-Sex sexualities in the life stories of Lithuanian LGBQ people	3
Does left populism short-circuit itself? Podemos in the labyrinths of cultural elitism and radical leftism	3
Facts, values and the policy world	3
Translating the complexity of EU differentiation: a comparative analysis of news coverage in Germany, Denmark, and the UK	3
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	3
The War in Ukraine’s Donbass – Origins, Context, and the Future	3
The EU as a partner of ILO in trade negotiations. Explaining labour reform in Vietnam	3
National identity in Serbia : the Vojvodina and a multi-ethnic community in the Balkans	3
Georgia’s external frontier on Russia sedimented and unmalleable: engagement politics and the impact of the three-tier warfare	3
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	3
An inquiry into the causes and economic consequences of contemporary populism in the central and Eastern European countries	3

Europeanization of citizens vis-á-vis regional politicians: the case of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Euregio Maas-Rhine	3
Coming to terms with the European refugee crisis	3
Illiberal spectatorship – the disfigurement of citizenship in Hungary and Poland	3
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without: the rule of law and refugee crises	3
EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine , by Federico F	3
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	3
Human rights approach in selected European municipal strategies of international relations	3
Political advice: past, present and future	3
Central Europe thirty years after the fall of communism. A return to the margins?	3
Has Erdoğan made Turkey a ‘subject’ in the Middle East and North Africa ?	3
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	3
The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict , edited by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and Karolina Pał	3
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	3
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	3
May the lord protect our country: ethnic relations as a moderator between religiosity and radical right vote	3
Faces of populism in central and south-eastern europe	3
Publishers Note	2
Poland as an emigration and an immigration country – dynamics of change from the local and individual perspective	2
Historical preparation and ideological legitimisation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: a critical discourse	2
How the traumatic past influences the vote of the populist radical right parties in Germany, Poland, and Spain	2
Building legitimacy: why the populist radical right engages in grassroots activism at the local level	2
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	2
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	2
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	2
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	2
Ukraine: remedial secession and Russian aggression	2
Europe’s evolving role in us grand strategy, indispensable or insufferable?	2
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile	2
Fundamental right or political value? The evolution of ‘freedom of religion or belief’ in the European Union’s legitimation and public action	2
The (changing) concept of democracy in (transforming) European populist radical right discourses: the case of Polish Law and Justice	2
Security for the small: materializing securitization in Finland and Norway	2
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe	2
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	2
Actors and Sites for Knowledge Production on Radicalisation in Europe and Beyond	2
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	2
Ambiguous identities in crisis-ridden Greece: ‘us’ and/against ‘Europe’	2
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	2
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	2
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	2
Through the looking glass? Lessons from party Europeanisation in Denmark	2
Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian movement	2