OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Conflict Resolution is 5. 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
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data	62
Contributing to Peace	42
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	33
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	26
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries	22
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	17
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery	17
The Effect of Migration on Political Support for Co-ethnics: Evidence From Turkey	16
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	16
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	16
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	15
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	15
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	14
Does Deplatforming Work?	14
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	14
Cohesion Among Whom? Stayees, Displaced, and Returnees in Conflict Contexts	14
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions	14
The Impact of Ideological Ambiguity on Terrorist Organizations	14
Returning Veterans’ Attitudes Toward Democracy: Evidence From a Survey of Ukraine’s ATO Veterans	14
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	13
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	13
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	12
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	12
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	11
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	11

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

Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration	6
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China	5
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks	5
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance	5
Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers	5
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	5
Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War	5
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	5
Coordination and Fair Division in Refugee Responsibility Sharing	5
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	5
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors	5
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition	5
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India	5
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship	5
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization	5
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions	5