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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	67
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	56
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	53
War without Boots	39
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	36
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	34
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	30
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	27
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	25
Wither the Trade Regime?	24
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	22
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	20
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	20
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	18
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	16
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	16
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	15
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	15
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	14
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	13
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	13
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	12
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	12
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	12

Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	12
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	12
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	11
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	10
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	10
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	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
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	10
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	9
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	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
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	7
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	7
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	6
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	6
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	5
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	5
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	4
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4
Here for the Right Reasons: The Selection of Women as Peace Delegates	4
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	4
How Should States Think?	4
Local Knowledges in International Peacebuilding: Acquisition, Filtering, and Systematic Bias	4
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	4
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	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
Sustaining Capitalism and Democracy: Lessons from Global Competition Policy	3
Global Problems, Global Actions?	3

Book Review of the New Atlantic Order	3
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	3
Cooperation, Contestation, and Context: The Study of International Relations and the War in Ukraine	3
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	3
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	3
Governments and Markets in the Digital Age	3
Ideological Enemies and Alliances	3
Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights	3
Origins and Patterns of Informal Organizations for International Governance	3
“Better than Objectivity:” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement	3
Introducing Organizational (Dis)Entanglements: How Scholarship on Regime Complexity and Power Dynamics Helps Make Sense of International Order-Making	3
Academic Freedom and the Discipline of International Relations	3
The Banality of White Supremacy in World Politics	2
The Green Backlash against Economic Globalization	2
The Methodological Machinery of Wargaming: A Path toward Discovering Wargaming’s Epistemological Foundations	2
Rediscovering Epistemic Coalitions Twenty Years Later: Using the International Olympic Committee to Build toward A Literature on Epistemic Institutionalism	2
Review of Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights	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
Postcards from the Pandemic: Women, Intersectionality, and Gendered Risks in the Global COVID-19 Pandemic	2
New Directions in the Study of Populism in International Relations	2
Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions	2
Emotions in the Frontline. Notes on Interpretive Research in Conflict Areas	2
IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis	2
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times	2
Career Pressures and Organizational Evil: A Novel Perspective on the Study of Organized Violence	2
The Implications of Surveillance Capitalism for Addressing Real Struggles	2
WhatsApp with Diplomatic Practices in Geneva? Diplomats, Digital Technologies, and Adaptation in Practice	2
Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Trust: The Gendered Nature of Back-Channel Peace Negotiations	2
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	1
Negotiating Positionality as a Student and Researcher in Africa: Understanding How Seniority and Race Mediate Elite Interviews in African Social Contexts	1
A “Best of Both Worlds”? Characterizations of Metropolitan Relationships by Non-Self-Governing Territory Representatives	1
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	1
Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism	1
Why Rivalries Endure	1
International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	1
The Challenges of Multilateralism	1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	1
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	1
Understanding the Limits of Transnational NGO Power: Forms, Norms, and the Architecture	1
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	1
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	1
Economic Lawfare: The Logic and Dynamics of Using Law to Exercise Economic Power	1
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	1
Correction to: The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	1
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	1
Forum: Challenges to Scholarship and Policy During Crises	1
Lateral Relations in World Politics: Rethinking Interactions and Change among Fields, Systems, and Sectors	1
Why Do Military Officers Condone Sexual Violence? A General Theory of Commander Tolerance	1
The Middle East and North Africa in Political Science Scholarship: Analyzing Publication Patterns in Leading Journals, 1990–2019	1
The Evolution of Databases in the Age of Targeted Sanctions	1
The Past, Present, and Future(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy	1