OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Review is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
War without Boots	57
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	44
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	35
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	33
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	28
The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	26
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	20
Wither the Trade Regime?	19
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	19
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	19
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	17
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	17
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	16
The International Origins of Unconsolidated Sovereignty	15
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	15
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	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
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	12
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	11
How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity	11
Peacebuilding with “Chinese Characteristics”? Insights from China's Engagement in Myanmar's Peace Process	11
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	11

European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	10
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	10
Rethinking US Hegemony and Its Challenges	10
Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	9
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	9
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	9
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked: A Methodology for Cyber Deterrence Research	8
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	8
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	8
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	8
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	8
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	8
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
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	7
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	7
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	6
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	6
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	6
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	6
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	6
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	6
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	6
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	5
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	5
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	5
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	5
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	4
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	4
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	4
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	4
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security	4
FORUM: Stripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR	4
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	4
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	4
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony: Searching for Africa in Chinese Theories of IR	4
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	4
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	4
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	4
Socializing Warlord Democrats: Analyzing Violent Discursive Practices in Post-Civil War Politics	4