OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Studies Review 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
War without Boots	57
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	44
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	35
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	33
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	28
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	26
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	20
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	19
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	17
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	17
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	16
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	15
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	15
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	14
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	14
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	13
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	12
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	11
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	11
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	11
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	11

Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges	10
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	10
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	9
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	9
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	9
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	8
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	8
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	8
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	8
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	8
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	8
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	7
Christopher Clary, the Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia, OUP, 2022 and Surinder Mohan, Complex Rivalry: The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict, University of Michigan Press,	7
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	7
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	6
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3

Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	3
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	3
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	3
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	3
How Should States Think?	3
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	3
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Global Problems, Global Actions?	2
Another Geopolitics? International Relations and the Boundaries of World Order	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	2
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	2
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	1
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	1
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	1
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Evaluating and Defending Religious Freedom	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	1
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	1
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	1
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	1
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	1
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	1
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	1
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	1