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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Diplomatic Goodwill. Neutrality as a Status Quo in Southern African Freshwater Governance	38
Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”	27
Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse	25
Lessons from the Viral Body Politic: Borders and the Possibilities of a More-than-Human Worldmaking	18
Policing the Enforcers: The Governmentality of Immigration Controls	16
Civilizational Politics at the Commonwealth Games: Identity, Coloniality and LGBTIQ+ Inclusion	15
Violence as a Constitutive of States	15
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	14
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	14
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	13
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	13
Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture	12
The Most Denounced, the Least Punished: Ruling Elites, Illegalisms, and Anti-Money Laundering	12
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	10
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	9
How Best to Be Egyptian? The “Honorable Citizen” and the Making of the Counter-revolutionary Subject	8
Curated Power: The Performative Politics of (Industry) Events	8
Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City	8
Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality	8
Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway	8
“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest	8

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations	8
Soviet Active Measures and the Second Cold War: Security, Truth, and the Politics of Self	8
Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims	7
Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion	7
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	7
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters	6
Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia	6
“In the End, History Repeats Itself.” Entangled Continuities and Changes in Discrimination Experiences and Resilience Strategies amongst Migrant Roma in Germany	6
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	6
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”	5
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan	5
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies	4
Walking the International	4
Correction to: Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	4
“Citizenship Cheaters” before the Law: Reading Fraud-Based Denaturalization in Norway through Lenses of Exceptionalism	4
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars: Learning and Unlearning the Coloniality of IR in the Context of Global North Academia	4
Struggle, Exit, “Resilience”—or How Precarious Workers Cope with Late Neoliberalism. Individual and Collective Agency of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Spain	4
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine	3
Reconceptualizing the Nation in Sanctuary Practices: Toward a Progressive, Relational National Politics?	3
Economic Sanctions, Racial Capitalism, and the Crisis of the International Order	3
Correction to: Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape	3
Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald	3
Political Visual Literacy	3
Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic	3
The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity	3
Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy	3
Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials	3
The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26	3
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Surveillance and Affect in the War on Terror	3
From the Myth ofSelf-Governmentto the Rise ofHoloptism: Another Genealogy of Liberal Governmentality	3
(Dis)possessive Borders, (Dis)possessed Bodies: Race and Property at the Postcolonial European Borders	3
Unmastering Research: Positionality and Intercorporeal Vulnerability in International Studies	2
Preserving Law and Order: How Institutions Implementing International Norms on Refugee Protection Can Restrict Asylum Outcomes	2
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation	2
“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics	2
Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom	2
Correction to: Curating Vraca Memorial Park: Activism, Counter-Memory, and Counter-Politics	2
Military Atrocity, National Identity, and Warrior Masculinity on Trial	2
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics: Pride, Globalization, and Geo-Temporality in Uganda and Serbia	2
Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees after Russia’s 2022 Invasion	2
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars: De-Territorializing the Global IR Debate	2
Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates	2
International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste	2
Machine Learning and the Platformization of the Military: A Study of Google's Machine Learning Platform TensorFlow	2
Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border	2
Tasting Tears at the Sharjah Biennial: The International Political Economy of Postcolonial and Decolonial Art	1
Above Reproach: Rawls, Cavell, and Emersonian Conversation as a New Model for Democratic Counter-Radicalisation Policy	1
Communicating through Protocols: The Case of Diplomatic Credential Ceremonies	1

“Protecting” Rights of Smuggled Migrants in the Context of State-Enforced Immobility: Legal Borderwork in Senegal	1
Benchmarking and Provenance: The Politics of Data Trust in EU Internal Security	1
Liquid Legitimacy: Lessons on Military Violence from the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank	1
Who Owns a Deadly Virus? Viral Sovereignty, Global Health Emergencies, and the Matrix of the International	1
When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth	1
Whiteness as Epistemological Orientation in International Climate Change Discourses	1
Editorial: Acknowledging Peer Review Excellence for 2021	1
Humanization, Dehumanization, and Spectacularization: The Semiotics of UNICEF’s Unfairy Tales	1
Infodemic, Ignorance, or Imagination? The Problem of Misinformation in Health Emergencies	1
Tracing Diplomatic Tutelage: (Post)colonial Pedagogies and the Training of African Diplomats	1
Seeing Islamophobia in Black: Contesting Imperial Logics in the Anti-Racist Moment	1
International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror: A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War	1
Justice “to Come”? Decolonial Deconstruction, from Postmodern Policymaking to the Black Horizon	1
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Embodiment, Relationality, and Power	1
Terrain of Contestation: Complicating the Role of Aid in Border Diplomacy between Europe and Morocco	1
Perceiving and Controlling Maritime Flows. Technology, Kinopolitics, and the Governmentalization of Vision	1
Late Modern War and theGeos	1