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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fifty Shades of Deprivation: Disaggregating Types of Economic Disadvantage in Studies of Terrorism	59
Complexity and Dissonance: Islamic Law States and the International Order	50
Good Timing: The New Temporal Turn in International Relations Theory	39
Consequences of Economic Sanctions: The State of the Art and Paths Forward	39
Colonial Law as Structural Injustice: Reactivating a Justice Agenda	31
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	30
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	24
Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare	24
What Do We Know about How Armed Conflict Affects Social Cohesion? A Review of the Empirical Literature	23
Patchwork of Counterterrorism: Analyzing European Types of Cooperation in Sahel	17
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	17
Correction to Review: Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare	17
IR and Relational Cosmology: Attainments and the Limits of Entanglement Fetishism	16
War without Boots	15
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	15
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	14
Peace with Adjectives: Conceptual Fragmentation or Conceptual Innovation?	13
Contesting Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions: The Case of the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic	13
Challenges to a Global IR: A View from the Middle East	13
Winning? The Politics of Victory in an Era of Endless War	13
Toward a Radical IR: Transformation, Praxis, and Critique in a (Neo)Liberal World Order	12
Diffusion and Decentralized Bargaining in International Organizations: Evidence from Mercosur's Dispute Settlement Mechanism	12
How Should States Think?	12
Reducing and Managing Risk: The Dimensions of Strong Ceasefires in Intra-State Conflict	12
Fifty Shades of Terrorist Credit-Taking: A Review of the Existing Scholarship on Terrorist Credit-Taking	11

The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take Its Development upon Itself	10
Rethinking Tests of the IO Effectiveness Hypothesis: Evidence from Counter-Piracy Efforts in the Global South	10
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	10
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	9
Epistemologies of Domination: Colonial Encounters, Heterology, and Postcolonial Pedagogy	9
Insulating Peace: Managerial Coordination in Durable Security Complexes	9
Conceptualizing the Effects of Polarization for US Foreign Policy Behavior in International Negotiations: Revisiting the Two-Level Game	9
Interpersonal Commitment: The Hidden Power of Face-to-Face Diplomacy	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship	7
The Death of the Democratic Advantage?	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence	7
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	7
The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative Research	7
Nationalism, Populism, and Trade Agreements	7
Global International Relations and Worlding Beyond the West: A Pedagogical Critique	7
Review of Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria	7
Climate Change, Energy Transition, and Constitutional Identity	6
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	6
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda	6
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	5
A Typology of Ontological Insecurity Mechanisms: Russia's Military Engagement in Syria	5
Real Struggles of Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity Are Happening Outside of Academia	5
Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals	5
“Negotiated Coexistence”: Indian and Chinese Engagement in the Global Governance of Peacebuilding	5
Power-Sharing: The Need to Explore the “Who” and the “Where”	5
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	5
Wither the Trade Regime?	5
Opening the Black Box of Transparency: An Analytical Framework for Exploring Causal Pathways from Reporting and Review to State Behavior Change	4
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	4
Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Marginalized Women in Liberia: Resilience and Enduring Challenges	4
Leader Influence in Role Selection Choices: Fulfilling Role Theory's Potential for Foreign Policy Analysis	4
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	4
Neoclassical Realism as a Theory for Correcting Mistakes: What State X Should Do Next Tuesday	4
Book Review of Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency	4
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	4
Legal Limits in Exceptional Times	4
Failing Is Not an Option, It Is the Only Option: Critical Politics as a Time of Contradiction and Failure	4
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	4
Uncertain Readiness: Process Design and Complexity Management in Peace Negotiations	4