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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The War in Ukraine and Global Nuclear Order	35
A Brutal Examination: Russian Military Capability in Light of the Ukraine War	34
Lessons of the SolarWinds Hack	26
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	24
Finland, Sweden and NATO Membership	21
The Ukraine Crisis: Why and What Now?	20
Europe Can Defend Itself	16
Ditch the NPT	12
Using Force to Protect Civilians in UN Peacekeeping	12
Afghanistan and the Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding	12
Digital Coloniser? China and Artificial Intelligence in Africa	12
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	11
Israel’s Right-wing Populists: The European Connection	11
Politics by Default: China and the Global Governance of African Debt	11
The Sino-Russian Relationship and the West	10
Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism	9
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Military Scenarios and Outcomes	8
What the India–Russia Defence Partnership Means for US Policy	8
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	7
Disarming Arguments: Public Opinion and Nuclear Abolition	7
The Contested Origin of SARS-CoV-2	7
Japan’s Grand Strategy: The Abe Era and Its Aftermath	7
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	6
Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine and the European Dream	5
Ukraine’s Strategy of Attrition	5

NATO’s Next Strategic Concept: Prioritise or Perish	5
Germany and Russia: Farewell to Ostpolitik?	5
War and Peace: Reaffirming the Distinction	5
Russia’s Arctic Designs and NATO	4
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	4
The Iran Nuclear Deal and Sanctions Relief: Implications for US Policy	4
Ukraine: The Shock of Recognition	4
The Guns of Europe: Defence-industrial Challenges in a Time of War	4
Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal: A Verdict on the Limits of American Power	4
UK Defence Policy After Ukraine: Revisiting the Integrated Review	4
Getting Restraint Right: Liberal Internationalism and American Foreign Policy	4
Community and COVID-19: Japan, Sweden and Uruguay	4
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	4
What Putin Fights For	4
The Consequences of Generative AI for Democracy, Governance and War	4
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence	4
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	4
Putin's Strategic Failure	4
Russia’s Deceptive Nuclear Policy	3
Russia’s Demise as an Energy Superpower	3
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	3
Xi Jinping’s Third Term	3
Fraught Relations: Saudi Ambitions and American Anger	3
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Durability of Deterrence	3
The Crisis of Liberalism and the Western Alliance	3
Why Have Chinese Diplomats Become So Aggressive?	3
Competing with the BRI: The West’s Uphill Task	3
Endings and Surprises of the Russia–Ukraine War	3
Trump’s Insurrection and America’s Year of Living Dangerously	3
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	3
In Reply: To Repeat, Europe Can Defend Itself	3
A Useful Failure: Macron's Overture to Russia	3
Vindicating Realist Internationalism	3
Quiet Engagement with the Taliban	3
Towards a Quantum Internet: Post-pandemic Cyber Security in a Post-digital World	3
Europe Can Afford the Cost of Autonomy	3
Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran	3
Zeitenwende One Year On	3
Getting China Right	3
An Afghan Tragedy: The Pashtuns, the Taliban and the State	3
Belarus and Russian Policy: Patterns of the Past, Dilemmas of the Present	2
Alliances and Nuclear Risk: Strengthening US Extended Deterrence	2
Europe Cannot Defend Itself: The Challenge of Pooling Military Power	2
What Kind of NATO Allies Will Finland and Sweden Be?	2
Euro-Atlantic Security and the China Nexus	2
About European Sovereignty	2
Strategic Unpredictability: Assessing the Doctrine from Nixon to Putin	2
The Economic Consequences of Xi Jinping	2
Truman Redux? Biden’s National Security Strategy	2
Dilemmas of Aiding Ukraine	2

Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2
Republican Politics and Policy After Trump	2
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	2
National Security and Climate Change: The Attention It Deserves?	2
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	2
China Looks at the Korean Peninsula: The ‘Two Transitions’	2
Europe’s Defence Requires Offence	2
UN Peacekeeping After the Pandemic: An Increased Role for Intelligence	2
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	2
Negotiating with North Korea … Again	2
Joe Biden’s Post-transatlantic Moment	2
Why Global Order Needs Disorder	2
America and the Illiberal Order After Trump	2
War and Arms Control: When to Pursue Cooperation	2
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	2
Europe’s Fragile Unity	2
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	1
Hard Lessons from South Sudan	1
The AUKUS Anvil: Promise and Peril	1
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	1
US–China Relations in the Shadow of Spengler	1
Russia, the Global South and the Mechanics of the Nuclear Order	1
Houthis in the Footsteps of Hizbullah	1
More than Decorative, Less than Decisive: Russian A2/AD Capabilities and NATO	1
Strengthening the US Partnership with the Syrian Democratic Forces	1
The US and South Korea: The Trouble with Nuclear Assurance	1
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	1
Hope Deferred: Russia from 1991 to 2021	1
The Crowded Red Sea	1
Australia’s Archipelagic Deterrence	1
How the War Has Changed Russia	1
The Wagner Revolt: Implications for Russia, Lessons for the West	1
Asia’s Ukraine Problem	1
Manoeuvre Versus Attrition in US Military Operations	1
A New Concert? Diplomacy for a Chaotic World	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Ukraine: The Balance of Resources and the Balance of Resolve	1
Europe Without America	1
How the al-Qaeda–Taliban Alliance Survived	1
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	1
The War on Terror Has Not Yet Failed: A Net Assessment After 20 Years	1
Argentina’s Foreign Policy Under Milei: Limited Disruption?	1
Did the US Intelligence Community Lose Iran?	1
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	1
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	1
Response: Keep the NPT	1
The Sino-American World Conflict	1
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Future of International Order	1
Culture and War	1
The Geopolitics of EU Enlargement: From Club to Commons	1
The Geopolitics of Greenflation	1
Israel and the Iran Nuclear Deal: The Best of Bad Options	1
Reforming Ukraine’s Security Sector	1
The Perspective from Pyongyang: Limits of Compromise	1
SALT 50 Years On: Strategic Theory and Arms Control	1
Resolving the Dilemma of UNSC Reform	1
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	1