OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies is 1. 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
Digital age: the changes in economy, society, politics	23
Turkish Foreign Policy in the Chaos of War, 1939-1945	18
The Role of Railways in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War	10
Turkey in the Global Economy; Neoliberalism, Global shift and the Making of a Rising Power	8
China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation in a Divided World: Narratives and Scenarios	8
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier	7
Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship	7
The Contribution of the Guaranteed Minimum Income in Alleviating Extreme Poverty in Greece	7
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks	7
Neo-Liberalism, Depopulation and Economic Stagnation in the Balkans	6
The Ottoman Legacy of the Connected Histories of Demographic Engineering: The Case of the Ottoman Greeks of Western Anatolia	6
Review: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı (eds). Berghahn Books. 2020 $179.00/£132.00 / Hb	5
Editorial to the special issue on ”Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean”	5
Cyprus, 1955–1959: The US, Britain and the USSR: Then is Now	5
The Late 19th Century Liberal Islamist Young Turk Movement in Egypt	5
The Complexities of Interreligious Dialogue in the Post-Yugoslav Context	5
Comprehending and Countering Hybrid Warfare Strategies by Utilizing the Principles of Sun Tzu	4
2023 Elections in Turkey within Global Context: Right Wing Populism in the Era of Global Shift	4
‘A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess’ and the Camouflaged Partition of the Island of Cyprus that followed on 16 August 1960: A Review of Achilles C. Emilianides, A Longdraw	4
Multinationals in the Grain Trade: The Louis Dreyfus Company at the Lower Danube, 1889–1948	4
Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872-1912 Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Manage	4
The Foreign Policy of PASOK and the Greek–Turkish Crisis in the Aegean (1981–89)	4
Political and Legal Problems of the Soviet–Yugoslav Military Co-Operation During the World War II: The Case of the 1 ^st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade	4
The Turkish Bourgeoisie at the Foundation of the Republic of Turkey: The Case of the Ship Owners	3
Summitry Diplomacy in Turkey–Africa Relations: Statements, (Non-)Accomplishments and Effectiveness	3

Ontological Insecurity and the Return of the Greek-Turkish Conflicts: Reconfiguring Hagia Sophia as an Ontic Space	3
From Missionary Teacher to Dysfunctional Technician: Teacher Training System in Turkey and Formations of Turkish Modernity	3
German Troops in Afghanistan: Strategic Narratives on German Participation in Resolute Support	3
Social Security in the Balkans—Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria	3
Water, Sewage and Sanitation: Infrastructure Projects and Public Health in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire	3
The Role of Republican and AKP Elites in the Construction and Reconstruction of Turkiye’s Foreign Policy Identity: A Critical Narrative Analysis	3
Syrian Immigrants and Turkish–European Union Migration Deals: Business as Usual	3
The New Challenges of the Western Balkan Banking Industry During Ongoing Global Crisis	3
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies	3
Remaking “Small Business” in Turkey: Critical Assessment of Small Business Politics Under the AKP Rule	3
Islam and Politics in Turkey: Alliance and Disunion Between the Fethullah Gülen Movement and the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	2
The Far-Right Redox Reaction: The Transformation of Populist Radical Right Parties from Marginal ‘Groupuscules’ into Considerable Political Forces	2
Macedonia & Its Questions. Origins, Margins, Ruptures & Continuity	2
The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	2
Which Legitimization for de facto States? The Case of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq	2
Defend the Nation, Crush the People: Desertion and Civil War in Greek Macedonia, 1916–17	2
Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles	2
Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects	2
Politics of Emotions in the Late Ottoman Empire: ‘Our Beloved Crete’	2
The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Major Autocratisers in Europe	2
Post-Pandemic Inflation and Currency Board Arrangements in the Balkans	2
An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations	2
Greece’s (Un)competitive Capitalism and the Economic Crisis: Critical Thoughts Under the Lens of Social Policy Greece’s (un) Competitive Capitalism and the Economic Cr	2
Turkish Neutrality in the Second World War and Relations with the Soviet Union	2
Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s	2
Chto Takoe Sovetskaya Diaspora? Is There a Living and Ideologically Sovieticized ‘Soviet Diaspora’?	2
Autonomy and Control in the Gig Economy and Platform Work: Domestic and Home Repair Workers in Turkey	2
Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance	2
Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(1856- 1908)[Hegira, the Religion and the State: The Ottoman Policy of Migration(1856- 1908)] Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(18	2
Turkey-Africa Relations and Turkey’s National Role Conception as the Centre Country: Continuity or a Break with the Past?	2
Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition	2
The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia	2
A “National Congress” for Economic Sovereignty: The Context and Objective of the Economic Congress of Turkey (1923)	1
Marrying the Enemy? Turkish Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Public Debate over Mixed Marriages in the 1940s Turkish Press	1
EU Macro-Regional Strategy in the Adriatic and Ionian Region: A Territorial Perspective on the EU Enlargement Policy	1
The Role of Armed Non-State Actors in Iran’s Syria Strategy: A Case Study of Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun Brigades	1
Russia’s Foreign Policy Actions and the Syrian Civil War in the United Nations Security Council	1
A Contemporary Analysis of Intra-Party Democracy in Turkey’s Political Parties	1
Analyzing the Mutual Geopolitical and Security Complementarity of Iran and Turkey: Border, Energy, and Water	1
Why Decentralization Fails: A Case Study of Turkey	1
The Black Sea-Danube Road as a New Foreign Trade Route Between Turkey and Central Europe (1935–1939)	1
Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence	1
No Strings Attached: Understanding Turkey’s Arms Exports to Africa	1
Multidirectionality(ies) in the Turkish Foreign Policy: Compensatory, Complementary and Reactive Multidirectionality	1
The Evolution of the Political, Social and Economic Life of Cyprus, 1191–1950	1
Review of: “Turkish–Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework”	1
(Exploring) the Impact of Turkey’s Embassies on Trade with sub-Saharan Africa	1
Introduction to the Special Issue “Turkey, Asia, and the EU in a Changing Global Order”	1
A Greening Dragon in the Desert? China’s Role in the Geopolitical Ecology of Decarbonisation in the Eastern Mediterranean	1
Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey	1

Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid	1
Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece	1
The Balkan War in Epirus: Religious Identity and the Continuity of Conflict	1
Turkey’s Political Parties’ Asia Policies: Visions, Contacts, Issues	1
Shifting Sands: Threat Perceptions and Security Among Gulf Cooperation Council Member States	1
The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkey: Some Causes for Concern	1
Encountering the Age of Civility: The Late Ottoman Etiquette Literature (1890–1918)	1
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and an Entrepreneur: Reading Vehbi Koç’s Entrepreneurship in the Ankara-Istanbul Duality	1
Hegemony, Europeanization, and Migration Diplomacy: Case of the EU-Turkey Statement and Action Plan	1
A House of Many Mansions: Perceptions of Lebanese Political and Intellectual Elites toward Iran	1
A Déjà Vu All over Again? Identifying and Explaining ‘Change’ in Turkey’s Asia Policy	1
The New Regime of Free Trade and Transnational Capital in Turkey	1
Turkey in the Global Political Economy: Technological and Economic Integration	1
Cyprus: Korea by Transposition?	1
The Political Economy of Passive Revolution in Albania: The Neoliberal Paradox and Transformation-Democratization Nexus	1
Back to Basics: The Re-Securitization of Cyprus by Turkey After Crans Montana	1
Turkey’s Balancing Act between East and West: A Russian Perspective	1
Exploring the Maritime Nexus in Turkey’s African Agenda	1
The Balkan Route (and Its Afterlife): The New Normal in the European Politics of Migration	1
China and Türkiye’s Strategic Cooperation in the 21 ^st Century: A ‘Complex Role’ Prism	1
Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy	1
Eastern Mediterranean Energy Geopolitics Revisited: Green Economy Instead of Conflict	1
China’s Seaport Investment in the Mediterranean Region and EU’s Interrogative Approach	1
The rise and fall of peacebuilding in the Balkans	1
Transformation of Identity among Slavic Muslim Pomaks in Bulgaria and Georgian Muslim Ajarians in Georgia: A Comparative Analysis	1