OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Political Sociology 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 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
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health	14
“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty	14
Constructing the “North African Problem” in France (1920–1956): A Colonial Genealogy of Migration Security Practices	13
Unfit to Bounce Back: On the Martial Politics of Resilience in WWI-Weimar Germany and Austerity Britain	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
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs	11
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland	11
Critique of Ontological Militarism	10
It Just Feels Right. Visuality and Emotion Norms in Right-Wing Populist Storytelling	10
Sounds of (In)Security: Listening Otherwise to Everyday Governance	10
What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?	9
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
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
Infrastructures and Capitalist World Ordering	7
Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic	7
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
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy	6
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
Reflections on IPS in Translation	5
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