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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
War without Boots	66
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	55
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	43
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	39
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	33
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	32
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	26
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	25
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	25
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	17
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	17
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	16
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	16
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	16
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	15
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	14
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	14
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	14
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	13
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	13
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	12
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	12

Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	12
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	11
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	11
Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges	11
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	10
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	10
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	10
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	8
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	8
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	8
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	8
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	8
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	7
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	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
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	7
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	6
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	5
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	4
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	4
Rethinking Intersections of Crime and Terrorism: Insights from Political Economies of Violence	4

Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
How Should States Think?	3
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	3
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	3
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	3
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
Another Geopolitics? International Relations and the Boundaries of World Order	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	2
The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	2
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	1
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	1
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	1
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	1
Evaluating and Defending Religious Freedom	1
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	1
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	1