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
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	21
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	21
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	19
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	19
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	18
Wither the Trade Regime?	18
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	17
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	17
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	15
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
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	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
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	11
“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
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	10
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	10
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	9
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
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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