OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is 2. 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
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	55
Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo: Contested Statehood and the EU	23
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	20
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	18
The Value of Further Education in Security Sector Reform: Autoethnographic Reflections from Palestine, Lebanon, and Georgia	18
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	17
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	16
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	15
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	15
Devolution or Decapitation? Decentralization During Conflict in Ukraine	15
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	14
Civil Sanctuary: Clearly Marked Spaces of Civility in Divided Urban Settings	13
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	12
Correction	11
The Failure of the Social Contract in Iraq: Iraqi Perspectives	11
Correction	11
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice: An Interdisciplinary Framing	10
Secessionist Conflicts: Unresolved Legacies of United Nations Trusteeship	10
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	10
Space for Peace: A Research Agenda	10
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	9
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	9
What Truth? How Civil Society Organisations Shape the Knowledge Production of Truth Commissions	9
The Politics of Space and Relationality: Localization and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Uganda	8
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	8

Inclusion in the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A ‘History of the Present’	8
Decolonial Politics: State, Statelessness, and Coexistence in Peace	8
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	8
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	7
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	7
Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003–2021)	7
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	7
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	7
Security Force Assistance to The Gambia Following the 2017 Political Transition: A Recipe for Further Fragmentation?	7
A Queer Response to ‘the Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect'	6
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	5
Applying Principal-Agent Theory to Security Force Assistance: The Atypical Case of Post-2015 Tunisia	5
How Many Turns Make a Revolution? Whither the ‘Dialogue of the Deaf’ Between Peacebuilding Scholars and Practitioners	5
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	5
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	5
When a State Seeks a Nation and a Nation Seeks a State – EU Accession in the Foreign Policies of Montenegro and Serbia	5
Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa	5
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	5
Correction	5
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	5
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	5
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	5
Social Media, Stereotypes, and the Acknowledgement of War Crimes	5
On Statehood and Sovereignty: Towards a Critical Appraisal of State Formation and International Statebuilding	4
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	4
Perceptions of Peace Operations in Mozambique: Help or Hindrance to Negotiating a New Social Contract?	4
Colombia’s Program to Substitute Crops Used for Illegal Purposes: Its Impact on Security and Development	4
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	4
Conflict Disruption: Reassessing the Peaceandconflict System	4
Perpetual Peacebuilding: A New Paradigm to Move Beyond the Linearity of Liberal Peacebuilding	4
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	3
Counterframing Truth? Interactions in Art and Justice in Post-Conflict Cambodia	3
Analysing (In)formal Relations and Networks in Security Force Assistance: The Case of Niger	3
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya	3
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	3
Canada’s Ontological Transition? Learning from Indigenous-Led Interactions with Truth and Reconciliation	3
Women and the War on Drugs: A Decolonial Feminist Reading of Coca Growers’ Everyday Experiences	3
Untold Stories: Ex-Combatant Silences in Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission	2
Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces	2
Correction	2
Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process	2
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	2
With or Without the State: Moral Divergence and the Question of Trust in Security Assemblages in Burkina Faso	2
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	2
Protecting Women from Violence in the United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites, South Sudan?	2
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	2
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	2
Reluctant to Protect? The Role of Moral Reputation in Joining Military Coalitions	2
In the Name of Peace or Self-Interest? States’ Intentions in Peacekeeping Operations and Impacts on the Effectiveness of Troop Contributions	2
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	2

You Cannot Improve What You Do Not Measure – The Gendered Dimensions of UN PKO Data	2
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	2
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	2
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Collective Conflict Management: Peacekeeping and Beyond	2
Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis	2
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	2
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	2