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

Article	Citations
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	58
Russia and Eurasia	20
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.	18
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	16
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance	16
Russia and Eurasia	16
Politics and International Relations	15
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	15
Noteworthy	13
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	11
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	11
United States	10
War, Conflict and the Military	10
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	10
United States	9
The War Within: Gaza, Netanyahu and Israel’s Security Services	9
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	9
Culture and Society	9
Svalbard’s Deterrence Gap	8
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	8
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	7
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	6
How the War Has Changed Russia	6
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	6

Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	6
Reconceptualising Strategic Depth in the Middle East	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	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
Russia and Eurasia	5
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	5
Deterrence and Arms Control	5
The Politics of Endurance: Iran and the Limits of Coercion	5
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	5
The Second Death of Arms Control	4
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	4
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	4
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	4
United States	4
Ukraine vs Gaza	4
Brief Notices	4
South Asia	4
War with China	4
Noteworthy	4
Middle East	4
The Choice for Sanctions	4
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	4
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	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
Tacit Coercion and Its Dilemmas: Russia and the West	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
Environment and Resources	3
Ukraine’s IT Army	3
The Battle for the Internet	3
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
Noteworthy	3
Africa	3
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	3
Preventing Nuclear War	3
United States	3
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
The Radicals’ Dilemma After Civil Wars: Evidence from Syria	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	3
Noteworthy	3
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	3
A European Way of War Without the United States	3
The United States vs Brazil: Tariffs and Punishment	2
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	2
Noteworthy	2
Noteworthy	2
America’s ‘Ungoverning’ in Global Context	2
Weaponising AI: The New Cyber Attack Surface	2
Europe’s Strategic-imagination Deficit	2
Getting China Right	2

The Risk and Reward of Preventive Strikes Against Iran	2
The Crowded Red Sea	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
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Brief Notices	2
Deterrence, Arms Control and Nuclear History	2
The Green Transition and European Industry	2
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	2
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	2
Brief Notices	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	2
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	2
Noteworthy	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	2
Israel’s Perilous Revisionism	2
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	2
Taking Leave: NATO’s Command Structure Amid US Disengagement	2
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	2
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	2
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	2
Latin America	2
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	2
The Sahel Coup Belt and the Return of Praetorianism	1
Critical Minerals and Geo-economic Peril	1
Humans Versus Slaughterbots	1
Noteworthy	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
Unpalatable Options: Confronting the Houthis	1
Israel at War, One Year On	1
Alliance of Revisionists: A New Era for the Transatlantic Relationship	1
Europe Without America	1
The US in the Middle East: Stupid or Merely Fallible?	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Noteworthy	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
Brief Notices	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
A Fragile Convergence: The US–Japan–South Korea Camp David Summit	1
Cause for Relief? US Strategic Policies in Trump’s Second Term	1
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Durability of Deterrence	1
From the Archives: Return to Greenland	1
Latin America	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
America Needs a Realistic Ukraine Debate	1
Brief Notices	1
Switzerland’s Neutrality Crisis	1
The War Against Iran	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
Latin America	1
Sadie’s People	1
Middle East	1
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Brief Notices	1
The Renegade Within: NATO’s American Dilemma	1
Correction	1
The Maritime Logic of the Melian Dialogue: Deterrence in the Western Pacific	1
The Guns of Europe: Defence-industrial Challenges in a Time of War	1
The Atlantic Alliance: Diverging Interests, Converging Policies	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Intelligence, Strategy and Governance in the Twenty-first Century	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Ireland’s Future: United, European and in NATO	1
Angela Merkel: A Status Quo Leader in a Revisionist Era	1
Noteworthy	1
After Stunde Null : Reflections on Germany, Italy and Europe	1
Noteworthy	1
War, Conflict and the Military	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Ukraine’s Fate and Europe’s Future: A View from Sweden	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
The Geopolitics of Governance	1
What Thucydides Could Really Teach Trump	1