OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Contemporary European Studies is 3. 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
The symbolic representation of the ‘People’ and the ‘Homeland’ in Spanish left populism: an opportunity for feminist politics?	21
The differential impact of EU attitudes on voting behaviour in the European parliamentary elections 2019	20
Power beyond borders? Analysing formal and informal tools of the European Parliament in EU enlargement policy	16
The rising fear of terrorism and the emergence of a European security governance space: citizen perceptions and EU counterterrorism cooperation	16
Small EU member states and Brexit: introduction	15
“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance	13
European transnationalism between successes and shortcomings: threats, strategies and actors under the microscope	12
A small state finding its way in the EU: Croatia and its approach to Brexit	12
Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective	12
Radicalism, identity construction and emotionality in social movements: #BogaziciDireniyor and the challenge to authoritarianism	12
Same rights different outcomes? Decomposition of differences in over-qualification among mobile EU workers	11
Political drivers of Muslim youth radicalisation in France: religious radicalism as a response to nativism	11
Homelands and dictators: migration, memory, and belonging between Southeastern Europe and Chile	10
The EU as a weak and authoritative traitor: signs of post-socialist ressentiment and populist rhetoric in online civic anti-European discourses	10
Bringing Erasmus home: the European universities initiative as an example of ‘Everyday Europeanhood’	10
Non-recognizing the Other? Discursive deligitimation of the EAEU by the EU	10
The role of (rule of law) conditionality in MFF 2021-2027 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget	9
Framing the Eastern Partnership in the European Union’s and Russia’s institutional discourse	9
EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies	8
Tracing Jewish family history in a post-Holocaust world	8
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism: Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain and Denmark	8
Mapping citizens, voters, and parties’ preferences on European solidarity across EU member states	8
Is the rule of law really a European concern? Mediatized rule of law conflicts and the contestation of the independence of the judiciary in France and Italy	8
Measuring Czech Armed Forces’ resilience to hybrid interference	8
Policing protest: the post-democratic state and the figure of black insurrection	8

Immigration policy and right-wing populism in Western Europe	7
Covid-19 and the collective securitisation of schengen: an analysis of EU and national responses to border control	7
Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches	7
Perceptions, images and emotions towards the European Union (EU) in Latin America: between admiration and resentment	7
Transnational diffusion and far-right latent social movements: unveiling the survival of anti-immigration mobilisation in Portugal	7
Sensing, imagining, doing Europe : Europeanisation in the boundary work of welcome cultures	6
Substantiating EU citizenship: an unintended route to anti-establishment support	6
Europe between Russia’s self and others: continuity and transformation in Russia’s perceptions of the European Union	6
Integration or exclusion? Assimilation of non-Irish nationals into the Irish labour market	6
Public opinion about Finland joining NATO: analysing Twitter posts by performing natural language processing	6
The art of securitising. Orbán’s handling of the European refugee crisis	6
The “green wave” in the EU Twittersphere during the May 2019 election campaign	6
Pax Transatlantica; America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era	6
Sanitary segregation imposed by Big Brother – a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Grzegorz Braun’s radical anti-vaccine rhetoric	6
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union	6
Need a little love? Go South: patterns of trust across EU member states	6
Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia	5
The rise and fall of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: ‘open strategic autonomy’ in action	5
The role of European and national identity and threat perceptions in attitudes towards immigrants	5
Divided Towns, Integration and Cross-border Cooperation. The Cases of Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Słubice/Frankfurt (Oder)	5
All roads lead to Rome? Analysing the electoral performance of populist radical left parties in Europe (2008-2018): a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	5
Conflict conditionality in the Western Balkans: its conceptualization, evolution, and nature	5
Introduction: social movements and radicalisation in Europe	5
Change in the Baltic Sea region: geopolitics, identity, and the Russian negative integration factor	5
Conflicting dynamics of public attitudes toward austerity: evidence from Europe (2010–2011)	5
International development policies in Central and Eastern Europe since EU accession: increasing divergence?	5
Coping, struggling, or just getting by? Brexit and its implications for Czech and Slovak security and defence policies	5
Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland	5
Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe	5
Ontological (In)security in theRassemblement National’sdystopian narrative of the EU	5
Ukraine and the willingness to fight for one’s country	4
European identity and European political parties	4
Roles and ideologies in foreign policy: the Czech positions on the EU migration crisis	4
Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space	4
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy	4
Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU Citizens in post-Brexit Literature and Culture	4
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	4
European political narratives in higher education: towards an ever-stronger politicisation?	4
China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: a hidden threat to European security logic?	4
EU regional trade agreements. An instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states	4
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	4
Does the EU message impact public attitudes toward the death penalty in EU membership-aspiring countries? Lessons from Albania	4
Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)	4
EUPD performance in Latin America: Assessing the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	4
Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU	4
Europe and the decline of social democracy in Britain: from Attlee to Brexit	4
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe	4
History of the Adriatic: a sea and its civilisation	4
The European Union agenda in Erdogan’s argumentative discourse: an analysis of the ideational sources and interactive functions of political reasoning	4
The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?	3

Spain as the EU’s ‘champion’ in Latin America: elites, government trustworthiness, and free trade	3
EU and US Foreign economic policy responses to China, the end of naivety	3
Negotiations in the Council of the EU under a new institutional setting: the case of the asylum policy	3
Between constraint co-production and real co-creation of public services: citizen involvement as public service innovation. Lessons from Poland	3
Globalizing regionalism and international relations	3
Eastern enlargement 2.0? EU enlargement discourses in the European Parliament before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine	3
Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia	3
Between policy issues and values: the public discourse of constrained presidents in Western Europe	3
Debating irregular migration in the European Parliament: a ‘parliament without a public’ or the voice of the people?	3
Framing collective identities in Swedish and Spanish left-leaning parties’ intra-party education	3
French attitude to Ukraine’s EU membership: from indifference through securitisation to alternatives	3
(Pro)-Russian (dis)information in Moldova: eroding vertical trust in Sandu and the PAS government?	3
Choosing among the chosen? Electoral lists and party primaries in Europe	3
A reluctant European? The Czech Republic’s EU membership experience read through the EU Council Presidency	3
Still a great power? Russia’s status dilemmas post-Ukraine war	3
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020	3
Alternative science, alternative experts, alternative politics. The roots of pseudoscientific beliefs in Western Europe	3
Brexit coping strategies of the Baltic states	3
Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus	3
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests’ cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups	3
Post-peasant progressivism as a kind of populism	3
Global perspectives on European Union public diplomacy: an introduction	3
The Limits of Party Unionism: Far-Right Projects of Trade Union Building in Belgium, France, and Germany	3
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change	3
The Jean Monnet action and the EU public diplomacy in India	3
Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey	3