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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Is Terrorism Really a Weapon of the Weak? Debunking the Conventional Wisdom	28
“Right-Peopling” the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies, and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1886-2020	25
Of One’s Own Making: Leadership Legitimation Strategy and Human Rights	23
The Determinants of Post-Sanctions Economic Recovery	22
I Still Haven’t Found what I’m Looking for: Predicting Security-Related Incidents and Conflict Fatalities with Google Trends and Wikipedia Data	22
Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries	21
Your Reputation Precedes You: Ceasefires and Cooperative Credibility During Civil Conflict	20
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons: The Effects of Power-Sharing Institutions on Grievances	19
Contributing to Peace	18
Leader Similarity and International Sanctions	17
What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset	17
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
The Economic Coercion Trilemma	16
Does Deplatforming Work?	16
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists?	15
Does Peacekeeping Mitigate the Impact of Aid on Conflict? Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid and Violence Against Civilians	15
Institutional Change as a Response to Unrealized Threats: An Empirical Analysis	13
Alliance Reliability and Dispute Escalation	13
Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements	13
Pathways to Cooperation: A Relational Theory of Rebel Alliance Formation	13
UN Security Council Elections as an Incentive for Compliance	13
Plots, Attacks, and the Measurement of Terrorism	12
Do Proxies Provide Plausible Deniability? Evidence From Experiments on Three Surveys	12
Intrastate Conflict, War Finance, and the Expropriation of Foreign Firms	12

On Nuclear Superiority and National Security	12
Terrorist Attacks and Trust in Institutions: Micro Evidence From Europe	12
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
Lingua Franca as a Hidden Barrier to Conflict Resolution	11
The Power of Cabinet Appointments in Autocracies: Elite Cooptation and Anti-Regime Mass Uprisings	10
Biophysiological Risk-Factors for Political Violence	10
In the Army We Trust: Public Confidence in Global South Militaries	10
Economic Decoupling as a Readiness Signaling Device	10
When Does Security Cooperation Increase Foreign Aid Allocation?	10
Gentrification and Social Unrest: The Blitz, Urban Change and the 2011 London Riots	10
Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico	10
Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic	9
Lockdown and Unrest: Inequality, Restrictions and Protests During COVID-19	9
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations	9
The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War	9
Beyond Outbidding: Armed Group Responses to Transnational Jihadist Competition	9
Contestation, Governance, and the Production of Violence Against Civilians: Coercive Political Order in Rural Colombia	9
Building Partner Capacity: US Aid to Security Sector Actors	9
Unfulfilled Aspirations: Autonomy, Regional Boundaries, and Self-Determination Conflicts	9
When Deterrence Backfires: House Demolitions, Palestinian Radicalization, and Israeli Fatalities	8
Beyond Ransom and Political Concessions? Explaining Changes in Insurgents’ Kidnapping Involvement Versus Event-frequency	8
Peacekeepers Abroad: Analyzing the Subsequent Conflict Prospects for Troops Deploying Nations	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
Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa	8
Leadership Turnover, Domestic Constraints, and International Conflict: Evidence From Ancient China	8
Electoral Integrity, the Concession of Power, and the Disciplining Role of Protests	8
Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention	7
Weapons of the Weak: Technological Change, Guerrilla Firepower, and Counterinsurgency Outcomes	7
Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification	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
Named and Shamed: International Advocacy and Public Support for Repressive Leaders	7
The Determinants of Terrorist Listing	7
Violence as a Condition: Structure, Composition, and the Use of Lethal Force	7
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict: Group Marginalization, Opportunity, and Islamic State Foreign Fighter Mobilization	7
The Double-Edged Sword of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Terrorism	7
Pride and Prejudice: The Dual Effects of “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy” on Domestic and International Audiences	7
Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis	7
The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation	7
Achieving Minimum Deterrence: A New Dyadic Dataset on Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capabilities	7
Erratum to “Disaggregating Defection: Dissent Campaign Strategies and Security Force Disloyalty”	7
Knowing What We Don’t: The Fundamental Problem of Data Quality in Conflict Research—and Methodological Solutions	7
Arctic Shock: Utilizing Climate Change to Test a Theory of Resource Competition	6
Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis	6
Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism	6
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination	6
Explaining Public Demands for Border Militarization	6
The Soviet Legacy and the Global South’s Reactions to Russian Invasion of Ukraine in the UN General Assembly	6

Insurgent Conscription for Capacity and Control: State Violence and Coerced Recruitment in Civil War	6
The Impact of Terrorism on Democratic Support in Africa	6
Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance	6
Just Patronage? Familiarity and the Diplomatic Value of Non-Career Ambassadors	6
Broadcasting Out-Group Repression to the In-Group: Evidence From China	6
Power, Parity, and Place: Why Forgetting the Loss-of-Strength Gradient Misses the Relative Power Relationship	6
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War	6
Responding to Uncertainty: The Importance of Covertness in Support for Retaliation to Cyber and Kinetic Attacks	6
Civil-Military Relations and Domestic Terrorism	6
Shooting From the Hip: The Counterintuitively Intuitive Nature of Deterrence	6
Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence	6
Is Ethnic Violence Self-Perpetuating? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Hindu-Muslim Riots in India	6
From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections	6