OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	60
War without Boots	47
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	40
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	35
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	31
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	28
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	22
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	21
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	21
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	19
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	19
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	18
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	17
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	17
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	15
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	14
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	14
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	14
Calculations in Small Circles: Factors Influencing Russian Foreign Policy-Making	14
Ceasefire Violations: Why They Occur and How They Relate to Strategic Decision-Making Processes	13
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	12
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	12
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	11

European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	11
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	10
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	10
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	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
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	9
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	9
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	9
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	8
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	8
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	7
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	7
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	7
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	6
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	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	6
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	5
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	5