OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Theory is 0. 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
How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder	24
Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’	17
Failing the state self: on the politics of state shame	12
Our place in the universe: Alexander Wendt and quantum mechanics	10
The spectre of statelessness	9
Preface	9
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia's opposition to Kosovo's membership in UNESCO	9
International criminalization and the historical emergence of international crimes	8
The many faces of sovereignty	7
Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency	7
The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity	7
INT volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
‘The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies: scientific methodologies and their implications	6
Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation	6
INT volume 14 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile	6
Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity	6
Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology	5
Global international relations and the essentialism trap	5
The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security	5
Weighing responsibilities: the allocation of fair refugee quotas	5
Quo Vadis?On the role of just peacewithinjust war	4
Contesting clusters: a study of norm weaving in Pacific climate mobilities policies	4
The tripartite structure of critical international theory	4
The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45	3

The strange fate of the morphed ‘rump materialism’: a comment on the vagaries of social science as seen through Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science	3
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics	3
Global at birth: a relational sociology of disciplinary knowledge in IR and the case of India	3
The scope of accountability of international organisations: the relevance of power, institutional structure, and salience	3
Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment	2
Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception	1
Post-truth politics and neoliberal competition: the social sources of dogmatic cynicism	1
INT volume 15 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Non-aggression pacts: context and explanation	1
Otherwise than quantum	1
Rethinking democracy in global network governance: norm polysemy, pluralism, and agonistic engagement	1
Confirming, suturing and transforming international recognition: the case of world heritage	1
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance	1
Strategic culture as a meaning-making system: towards a social semiotic account of multimodal cultural constraints in international relations	1
The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling	1
A new philosophy for international legal skepticism?	0
E. H. Carr and Alfred Zimmern: utopia, reality, and the twenty years’ crisis	0
Are international organizations agents in their own right? A plural subject perspective	0
Stay off my field: policing boundaries in human rights and democracy promotion	0
John Stuart Mill on the Suez Canal and the limits of self-defence	0
Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility	0
INT volume 14 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management	0
What kind of power can citizens exercise beyond the state? Globalizing democracy through representative claim-making	0
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part I: burdens of proof and uncomfortable facts	0
Kenneth Waltz's Kantian moral philosophy: ‘the virtues of anarchy’ reconsidered	0
Globalizing the international: Bull's metaphysics of order	0
The perils of technocratic power: central bank discretion and the end of Bretton Woods revisited	0
On the right to diplomacy: historicizing and theorizing delegation and exclusion at the United Nations	0
A combinatorial theory of institutional invention – ERRATUM	0
Response section	0
‘Getting Asia right’: de-essentializing China's hegemony in historical Asia	0
Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection	0
Property and international relations: lessons from Locke on anarchy and sovereignty	0
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	0
Weak sovereignty and interstate war	0
Limitations of hypocrisy as a strategy of critique in international politics	0
Indigenous political theory, metaphysical revolt, and the decolonial rearticulation of political ordering	0
Empire and insurgency: the politics of truth in Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology	0
INT volume 13 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
International society as an ontological security provider: a framework for analysis	0
A combinatorial theory of institutional invention	0
Rethinking ‘middle powers’ as a category of practice: stratification, ambiguity, and power	0
Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part II: critics in the PITs	0
Law and politics from the sea	0
Towards a minimal conception of Transitional Justice	0
The United Nations of IR: power, knowledge, and empire in Global IR debates	0
Alexander Wendt, Quantum mind and social science: unifying physical and social ontology	0
Negotiating racial subjection: analysing Black and Indigenous resistance from within colonial orders	0
The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia	0

INT volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Theorizing the history of women's international thinking at the ‘end of international theory’	0
‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function: comments on Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science	0
Threats to state survival as emergencies in international law	0
Is anyone a middle power? The case for historicization	0