OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	41
Contributing to Peace	26
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	22
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	21
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	21
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries	20
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	20
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	19
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery	19
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data	19
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	17
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	17
Leader Similarity and International Sanctions	16
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	16
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	16
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	15
Does Deplatforming Work?	15
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	15
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	15
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	14
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	14
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	13
Intrastate Conflict, War Finance, and the Expropriation of Foreign Firms	12
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	12
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	12

The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression	12
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad	12
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	12
On Nuclear Superiority and National Security	12
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys	12
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings	11
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism	11
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico	11
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots	11
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula	11
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence	11
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic	10
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries	10
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors	10
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War	10
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations	10
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?	10
Economic Decoupling as a Readiness Signaling Device	10
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia	10
Unfulfilled Aspirations: Autonomy, Regional Boundaries, and Self-Determination Conflicts	9
Religiosity, Political Tolerance, and Willingness to Reconcile in Post-conflict Contexts: Evidence From Colombia	9
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency	9
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq	9
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions	9
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence	9
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa	9
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19	9
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities	9
Violence as a Condition: Structure, Composition, and the Use of Lethal Force	8
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	8
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	8
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	8
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	8
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	8
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	7
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	7
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity	7
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	7
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China	7
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	7
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	7
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	7
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”	7
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	7
The Soviet Legacy and the Global South’s Reactions to Russian Invasion of Ukraine in the UN General Assembly	7
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India	7
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences	7
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification	7
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	7
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions	7

Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	7
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization	7
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology	7
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks	6
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	6
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism	6
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka	6
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition	6
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing	6
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War	6
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance	6
The Impact of Terrorism on Democratic Support in Africa	6
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors	6
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship	6
The Bombing of Hospitals and Rebel Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria	6
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence	6