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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	23
Explaining the Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Peace Operations: AU-EU Cooperation in the Central African Republic	23
The City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace	19
Evaluating the Pitfalls of External Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003–2021)	18
What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries	18
Correction	17
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland: Existential Anxieties in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice	15
From Negative to Positive Peace: How Norms Relate to Different Peace Dimensions	15
Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi	14
Practices of Intervention: Assembling Security Force Assistance in Lebanon	13
Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa	13
A Key Success Factor: Elucidating the Meaning of Legitimacy for UN Peacekeepers	12
Undoing the Liberal versus Illiberal Peacebuilding Dichotomy	12
Introducing Space for Peace	10
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan	10
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance	10
Responding to Child Soldiering: When the Presence of Child Soldiers Attracts Mediation from Democratic Regimes	9
Post-military Futures: Plans and Failure of the Peace Operations’ Infrastructure Handover in Darfur	9
The Palliative Role of Reparations in Reconciling Societies with the Past: Redressing Victims or Consolidating the State?	9
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies	9
Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process	8
The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites	8
Not the ‘Fairest Norm of Them All’ but Still Needed: On Hobson and Criticism of the Responsibility to Protect	8
Regional Integration Alongside Securitisation? The Statebuilding Ambitions of ECOWAS States in Migration Cooperation	8

Sequencing a Peace Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia: Ambiguity, Hybridity and Agency	7
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
Flying Under the Ethnic Radar: Subdued Identities of Serbs Amidst Croatian Statebuilding	7
Assessing the Universality of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights	6
Subverting Peace: The Origins and Legacies of de-Ba’athification in Iraq	6
The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations	6
Constructing the Local in Madagascar: Resistance and Politics of Scale	6
Peace in Plural: Towards Decolonial and Feminist Approaches to Peace	6
Considering Statebuilding, Publishing Statebuilding – On Being an Editor in a Changing Field	6
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction	6
Humanitarian Shapeshifting: Navigation, Brokerage and Access in Eastern DR Congo	6
Transitional Justice and Inclusiveness: Where Does Disability Fit In?	6
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans	5
Power Peace: The Resolution of the Syrian Conflict in a Post-Liberal Era of Peacemaking	5
Security Force Assistance to Fragile States: A Framework of Analysis	5
Variations of Peace in Colombia	5
The Politics of Normative Intervention and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon	5
Challenging Becomings: Gender Dynamics in the Syrian Medical-Humanitarian Response	5
Challenging the ‘Here’ and ‘There’ of Peace and Conflict Research: Migrants’ Encounters with Streams of Violence and Streams of Peace	5
When David meets Goliath. Inclusive Multi-track Peacemaking amidst Geopolitical Competition for Syria	5
Multitrack Diplomacy and Inclusion: Is Patchworked Peacemaking Really a Way Forward?	5
A World Without Alternatives: R2P Meets TINA	4
Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe	4
Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After war	4
Beyond Peace Versus Justice: Demobilisation, Reintegration, and Transitional Justice in Liberia	4
Local Turn in Knowledge Production About Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Balkan Peace Index	4
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-Making: Transitional Justice, Publicness and Parliamentary Questions in the Croatian Parliament	4
The European Union’s Security Intervention in the Indo-Pacific: Between Multilateralism and Mercantile Interests	4
The Aesthetics of Peace: Complexity, Speculation, and Unknowing in Creative Peacebuilding Research	3
Classification and Compensation. How the Conflict Type Shapes Reparations in Post-War Justice	3
Peacemaking as Statebuilding: Colombia’s 2016 Agreement in a Comparative Perspective	3
Disrupting the Transitional Justice Circuit: Everyday Transformative Gender Justice in Colombia	3
Norms and Peace in a Turbulent World	3
The Moral Untouchability of the Responsibility to Protect	3
Memorialising Violence amid Transition: Pedagogical Expectations in Colombia’s Memory Sites	3
International Recognition Meets Areas of Limited Statehood: Practices and Effects on Hybrid Actors in Post-2011 Libya	3
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration: Iraq’s Security Sector from the US Invasion to the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Listening to the Stories People Tell: Poetry as Knowledge Disruption on the Lebanese Civil War	3
Making Space for Indigenous Approaches in the Southwest Pacific? The Spatial Politics of Peace Scholarship and Practice	2
Invoking ‘the Customary’ in the Formalization of Land Reform in Liberia and Sierra Leone	2
Correction	2
Victim-Centred Peacemaking: The Colombian Experience	2
Making Peace, Fighting Battles in Colombia: An Annotated Interview with Juanita Goebertus	2
Careless Talk Costs Lives: The Causes and Effects of Marginalising Peacebuilding Practitioners with Caring Responsibilities	2
(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali	2
Correction	2
Europeans from the Start? Slovenia and Croatia Between State-building, National Identity and the European Union	2
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings	2
Everyday Protection: Learning from United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites	2

War, Ontology and Bodies: Beyond Human-Centred Approaches	2
R2P in Uncertainty: A Response to Hobson	2
Tackling Terrorism in Africa: US Remote Interventionism and the Fight against Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab in Kenya	2
Statebuilding and the Modernisation of Welfare Governance in Russia	2
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations	2
‘Pactantes y no pactadas’: Gender Mainstreaming and the Political Ceiling of Colombian Women's Role in the Havana Dialogues	2