OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contributing to Peace	42
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	39
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	25
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	24
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	24
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	18
Does Deplatforming Work?	17
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	15
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	14
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	14
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	13
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	13
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	12
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	12
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	12
Measuring Human Rights Abuse from Access to Information Requests	12
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	12
Sanctions and Third-party Compliance with US Foreign Policy Preferences: An Analysis of Dual-use Trade	12
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	12
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	12
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	11
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism	11
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	11
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	11

The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression	11
The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban	10
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	10
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings	10
Indirect Governance at War: Delegation and Orchestration in Rebel Support	10
The Meddling American Voter? How Norms, Interests, and Great Power Rivalries Affect U.S. Public Support for Partisan Electoral Interventions Abroad	10
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors	10
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots	10
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys	10
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence	10
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?	10
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico	9
The Dual Effect of COVID-19 on Intergroup Conflict in the Korean Peninsula	9
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia	9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War	9
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries	9
Terrorism and Political Tolerance toward “Fellow Travelers”	9
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	8
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities	8
Restitution or Retribution? Detainee Payments and Insurgent Violence	8
Citizens in Peace Processes	8
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency	8
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa	8
Sanctions-Busting, Material Power, and Institutional Support for Economic Sanctions	8
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19	8
Painful Words: The Effect of Battlefield Activity on Conflict Negotiation Behavior	8
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic	8
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Perils of Impunity	7
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	7
Due Process and Accountability Under Transitional Justice: Evidence from Mosul, Iraq	7
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	7
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	7
Wartime Sexual Violence, Social Stigmatization and Humanitarian Aid: Survey Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	7
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences	7
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	7
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	6
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	6
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	6
Commitment to the “National” in Post-Conflict Countries: Public and Private Security Provision in Lebanon	6
Armed Conflicts With Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State: The Role of Repression and State Capacity	6
Does Language Foster Reconciliation? Evidence From the Former Yugoslavia	6
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset	6
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology	6
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	6
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	6
Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	6
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	5
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors	5
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	5
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	5

Corrigendum to Sticks and Stones? Connecting Insurgent Propaganda with Violent Outcomes	5
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism	4
Rebels with a Cause: Does Ideology Make Armed Conflicts Longer and Bloodier?	4
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism	4
Looking Like a Winner: Leader Narcissism and War Duration	4
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization	4
Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia	4
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing	4
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance	4
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination	4
Civil War Settlements, Perceived Agreement Fairness, and Trust in Political Authorities: Investigating the Influence of Power Sharing on Public Opinion in Divided Societies	4
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War	4
Terrorism Works, for its Supporters	4
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China	4
Secessionism and Wartime Sexual Violence	4
The Interwar Period International Trade in Arms: A New Dataset	4
Thinking about the distant future promotes the prospects of peace: A construal-level perspective on intergroup conflict resolution	4
Divergent Perceptions of Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: Insights from Sri Lanka	4
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks	4
Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence From the Spanish Civil War	4
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition	4
Armies and Influence: Elite Experience and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy	4
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	4
Deterrence and Restraint: Do Joint Military Exercises Escalate Conflict?	4