OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Sociology is 1. 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
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	37
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	26
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	24
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	18
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	14
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	14
Violence as a Constitutive of States	14
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	13
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	13
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	13
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	12
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	12
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	10
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	10
Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture	10
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	9
Critique of Ontological Militarism	9
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	8
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	8
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	8
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	8
Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations	8
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	8

Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	7
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	7
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	7
Contributors	6
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	6
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims	6
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	5
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	5
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise: The “Special Committee on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry”	5
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	4
“In the End, History Repeats Itself.” Entangled Continuities and Changes in Discrimination Experiences and Resilience Strategies amongst Migrant Roma in Germany	4
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	4
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	4
Reflections on IPS in Translation	4
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	3
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
Economic Sanctions, Racial Capitalism, and the Crisis of the International Order	3
The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26	3
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	3
Political Visual Literacy	3
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	3
Walking the International	3
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	3
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	3
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?	3
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	2
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	2
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	2
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	2
Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies	2
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	2
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	2
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Surveillance and Affect in the War on Terror	2
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	2
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	2
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation	2
Visual Appropriation: A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International	2
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	1
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	1
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	1
Late Modern War and theGeos	1
“Protecting” Rights of Smuggled Migrants in the Context of State-Enforced Immobility: Legal Borderwork in Senegal	1
Liquid Legitimacy: Lessons on Military Violence from the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank	1
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	1
“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics	1
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	1
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy	1

Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2021	1
When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth	1
Infodemic, Ignorance, or Imagination? The Problem of Misinformation in Health Emergencies	1
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	1
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	1
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	1
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	1
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats	1
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Embodiment, Relationality, and Power	1
Humanization, Dehumanization, and Spectacularization: The Semiotics of UNICEF’s Unfairy Tales	1
Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates	1
Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion	1