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 2021-06-01 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
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	12
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	12

How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	12
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	11
Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges	11
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	11
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 More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	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
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
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	5