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

Article	Citations
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	26
Correction	25
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	24
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	22
How Is Peace Made?	19
Correction	15
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	15
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	14
Parallel Worlds: the Theory and Practice of ‘Ownership’ in Women, Peace and Security	14
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	14
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	12
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	11
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	10
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	10
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	9
Engaging Reluctant Citizens: Parent States and Legitimacy during Critical Junctures	9
Introducing Space for Peace	9
Everyday Peace Formation from Below in Rural Georgia	8
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	8
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	8
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	8
Combat Legitimacy and Robust Peace Operations: Calibrating Military Protection of Civilians	8

Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	8
When a State Seeks a Nation and a Nation Seeks a State – EU Accession in the Foreign Policies of Montenegro and Serbia	7
Correction	7
Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	7
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	7
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	6
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	6
Flying Under the Ethnic Radar: Subdued Identities of Serbs Amidst Croatian Statebuilding	6
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	6
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	5
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	5
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	5
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	5
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	5
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	5
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	4
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	4
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	4
‘We Don't Want Another Observer Mission’: The East African Force and the Politics of Deployment in the DRC	4
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	4
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	4
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	4
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	4
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	4
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	4
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	3
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	3
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	3
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	3
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	3
Classification and Compensation. How the Conflict Type Shapes Reparations in Post-War Justice	3
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	3
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes	3
Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions	3
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	3
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	3
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	3
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	3
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	3
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities	2
War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	2
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	2
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	2
Adverse Incorporation and Local Economies of Peace	2
The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists	2
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	2
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	2
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	2

Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	2
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	2
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	2
Blackouts, Whitelists, and ‘Terrorist Others’: The Role of Socio-technical Imaginaries in Myanmar	2
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	2
Correction	2
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
Testing the Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus: Evaluating European Union Local Engagement in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh	2
Sustaining Legitimacy of Unrecognized Statehood: How Turkish Cypriot Elites Cope with Internal and External Challenges	2
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	2