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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	47
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	42
Environment and Resources	38
Russia and Eurasia	27
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.	24
Russia and Eurasia	19
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	18
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance	15
Noteworthy	12
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	11
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	11
How the War Has Changed Russia	11
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	10
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	9
Politics and International Relations	9
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	8
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	8
The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	8
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	7
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	7
Culture and Society	7
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	7
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	7
Russia and Eurasia	7
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	7

Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	7
Deterrence and Arms Control	6
NATO’s Next Strategic Concept: Prioritise or Perish	6
Ukraine vs Gaza	5
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	5
War with China	5
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	5
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	5
Understanding Russia: Personalist Autocracy Versus Historical Continuity	5
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	4
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	4
Ukraine’s IT Army	4
Brief Notices	4
United States	4
Preventing Nuclear War	4
The Battle for the Internet	4
US Counter-terrorism: Moving Beyond Global Counter-insurgency to Strongpoint Defence	4
Middle East	4
The Choice for Sanctions	4
South Asia	4
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	4
Brief Notices	4
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	4
More than Decorative, Less than Decisive: Russian A2/AD Capabilities and NATO	4
Environment and Resources	3
What Putin Fights For	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	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
America’s Architectural Challenge in Southeast Asia	3
United States	3
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’	3
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	3
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
Noteworthy	3
Noteworthy	3
Economy	3
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
Russia and Eurasia	2
Middle East	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	2
Africa	2
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	2
Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2

Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	2
Brief Notices	2
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	2
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	2
Israel’s Perilous Revisionism	2
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	2
Noteworthy	2
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	2
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	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
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	2
Noteworthy	2
Noteworthy	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Israel at War, One Year On	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
Colombia’s River of Life and Death	1
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	1
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	1
Brief Notices	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Correction	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Sadie’s People	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Noteworthy	1
Getting China Right	1
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	1
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	1
Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Brief Notices	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	1
Europe Without America	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
Culture and War	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	1
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	1
America’s ‘Ungoverning’ in Global Context	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1
Noteworthy	1