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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	78
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	43
War without Boots	42
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	37
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	37
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	31
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	25
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	24
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	22
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	22
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	22
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	22
Review of The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy	21
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	20
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	20
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	17
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	16
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	15
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	15
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	14
Review of Beyond power transitions. The lessons of East Asian history and the future of U.S. —China relations	14
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	14
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	13
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	13
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	13

Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	12
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	12
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	11
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	10
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,	10
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	9
Review of The no-fly zone in US foreign policy: the curious persistence of a flawed instrument	8
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	8
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
Following the Free Officers: Explaining the Politics of Coup Contagion and Containment	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	5
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
New Perspectives on Trust in International Conflicts	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	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	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	3
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	3
Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order	3
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
How Should States Think?	3
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	2

The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	2
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	2
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	2
Review of Indirect rule: the making of US international hierarchy	2
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	2
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	2
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	2
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	2
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	2
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	2
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	2
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	2
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	2
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	2
Beyond the Binary: A New Typology for Evaluating Warning Success and Failure in Strategic Surprise	2
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	2
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	2
Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance	1
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System”	1
Why Rivalries Endure	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
Populist Foreign Policy: Mapping the Developing Research Program on Populism in International Relations	1
The Middle East and North Africa in Political Science Scholarship: Analyzing Publication Patterns in Leading Journals, 1990–2019	1
China's Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”	1
International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
Security Assistance and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Review of Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture	1
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	1
Where Do Women Go? Challenges of COVID-19, Patriarchy, and Militarization in Kashmir	1
The Complex Social Ontology of International Law on War	1
Correction to: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
The Challenges of Multilateralism	1
Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism	1
The Evolution of Databases in the Age of Targeted Sanctions	1
Climate Refugees in India: Seeking Security between Disaster Diplomacy and Strategic Ambiguity	1