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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	63
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	51
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	49
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	39
War without Boots	35
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	31
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	26
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	25
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	25
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	23
Wither the Trade Regime?	21
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	19
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	16
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	16
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	15
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	15
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	14
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	14
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	14
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	14
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	12
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	12
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	12
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	11

“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	11
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	11
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	10
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	10
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	10
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	10
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
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,	9
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	9
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	8
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	7
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	5
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	4
How Should States Think?	4
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	4
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3

Global Problems, Global Actions?	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	3
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	3
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	2
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	1
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	1
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	1
Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	1
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	1
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Correction to: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	1
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	1
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	1
Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism	1