OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Survival 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	44
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	41
Environment and Resources	35
Russia and Eurasia	23
The US Navy and the Western PacificU.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat, Brent Droste Sadler. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2023. $39.	22
Russia and Eurasia	17
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	14
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	12
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
How the War Has Changed Russia	12
Noteworthy	12
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	11
Politics and International Relations	11
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	11
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	11
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	9
Culture and Society	8
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	8
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	8
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	7
The Fleet in Being: An Alternative US Strategy	7
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	7
Noteworthy	7
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	7
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	6

Russia and Eurasia	6
Europe’s Fragile Unity	6
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	6
Ana Montes: An (Almost) Perfect SpyCode Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy – and the Sister She Betrayed, Jim Popkin. New York: Hanover Square Press, 2023. $27.99. 3	6
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	5
NATO’s Next Strategic Concept: Prioritise or Perish	5
Understanding Russia: Personalist Autocracy Versus Historical Continuity	5
Ukraine vs Gaza	5
Noteworthy	5
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	5
Deterrence and Arms Control	5
Brief Notices	4
Middle East	4
More than Decorative, Less than Decisive: Russian A2/AD Capabilities and NATO	4
War with China	4
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	4
The Choice for Sanctions	4
The Battle for the Internet	4
Culture and Society	4
United States	4
Ukraine’s IT Army	4
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	3
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	3
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	3
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
Environment and Resources	3
Politics and International Relations	3
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	3
United States	3
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence	3
Economy	3
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	3
Brief Notices	3
South Asia	3
Preventing Nuclear War	3
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
Changing the Way We Think About EuropeThe Origins of European Integration: The Pre-history of Today’s European Union, 1937–1951Mathieu Segers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.£22.99. 244 p	3
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	2
Africa	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	2
America’s Architectural Challenge in Southeast Asia	2
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’	2
What Putin Fights For	2

Noteworthy	2
The Rise of Economic Nationalism EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China: The End of Naivety Joachim Schild and Dirk Schmidt. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.£130	2
Using Force to Protect Civilians in UN Peacekeeping	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Enabling US Security Cooperation	2
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	2
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	2
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	2
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Brief Notices	1
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	1
Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	1
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	1
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	1
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	1
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
Brief Notices	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	1
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	1
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	1
Response: Keep the NPT	1
Middle East	1
Noteworthy	1
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	1
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	1
Brief Notices	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
Noteworthy	1
Getting China Right	1
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	1
Noteworthy	1
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
Noteworthy	1