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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Fallacies of Democratic State-Building	63
Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars	51
Why Do We—or Don’t We—Fight?	49
Practices of (De)Legitimation in World Politics	39
War without Boots	35
Practices of Policy Orientation: A Study of the Heterogeneous Field of Democracy Promotion Research	31
Teaching and Researching Human Rights in Hostile US Spaces	26
Correction to: International Studies and Struggles for Inclusion	25
Regionalism and the Politics of Identity in Russia	25
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue	23
Wither the Trade Regime?	21
Feminist Commitments Towards a Horizontal Women, Peace, and Security Critical Learning Community	19
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda	17
The Climate Challenge for International Studies	16
Intermediation between International Society and World Society: The Pope and the UN Secretary-General on “the Figure of the Refugee”	16
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity	15
Can Men Do Feminist Fieldwork and Research?	15
Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire	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	14
How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?	12
“Eliding Joy” No More: Bringing Joy Back to Human Rights	12
European Regional International Society and the Political Economy of the Global Sugar Regime	12
COVID-19 and Gendered Risk: A Case Study of Yemeni Women Peacebuilders	11

Tracking Climate Securitization: Framings of Climate Security by Civil and Defense Ministries	11
Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay	11
“The More, the Merrier”: Three Ways of Case Universe Extension—Reflections on Bringing Shia into Islamism Studies	11
Collective Memory and Problems of Scale in International Relations	10
Contested Facts: The Politics and Practice of International Fact-Finding Missions	10
Talk from the Top: Leadership and Self-Legitimation in International Organizations	10
The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya	10
Who’s Afraid of the Bomb?: The Euromissiles Crisis and Nuclear Weapons in Europe, Past and Present	10
Issues and Strategies in a Managed Rivalry	9
NGOs and States: Exploring National Diversity and Global Liberalism	9
Systemism and International Relations: How a Graphic Method Can Enhance Communication	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
Activists in International Courts: Theorizing the Roles of Rights Activists between International Human Rights Courts, States, and Societies	8
Civilian Agency in Civil War? Militia Formation and Diffusion in Mozambique	8
Why States Arm and Why, Sometimes, They Do So Together	8
Conditions in Which Small States Improve Their Influence	8
What Is Christendom to Us? Making Better Sense of Christianity in Global Politics	7
Fake News and Gendered Public Labor: Burundian Peace Activists Combat COVID-19 Disinformation	7
Revolt and Rule: Learning about Governance from Rebel Groups	7
Correction to: Reassembling the Social in the Study of Religion and International Relations	7
The Concept of Anxiety in Ontological Security Studies	7
Exposure to Violence as Explanatory Variable: Meaning, Measurement, and Theoretical Implications of Different Indicators	7
Review of Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance	6
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security	6
Global Crisis and the Liberal International Order: Critical Nodes in a Totality	6
Classified and Secret: Understanding the Literature on Diversity in the Intelligence Sector	6
A New Model of “Taboo”: Disgust, Stigmatization, and Fetishization	6
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest	6
Is the Public Backlash against Globalization a Backlash against Legalization and Judicialization?	6
The Forum: Global Challenges to Democracy? Perspectives on Democratic Backsliding	5
Women Peacebuilders at the Forefront of COVID-19: Documenting Feminist Approaches to Reducing Impacts of Crises	5
Collective Memory, Contestations, and Global Politics	5
From Confrontation to Cooperation: Describing Non-State Armed Group–UN Interactions in Peace Operations	5
The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and Realism in Latin America	5
The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide	5
Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence	5
Forum: New Perspectives on Transnational Non-State Actors—A Forum Honoring the Work of Thomas Risse	5