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

Article	Citations
Environment and Resources	54
Cyber Security and Emerging Technologies	47
Russia and Eurasia	43
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.	28
Russia and Eurasia	25
Forever Bound? Japan’s Road to Self-defence and the US Alliance	21
The Loop Is Broken: Why Autonomous-warfare Policy Must Reckon with Human Performance	17
Calibrating the EU’s Trade Dependency	14
Politics and International Relations	13
From Quad to Quint? Vietnam’s Strategic Potential	13
Noteworthy	13
Detect and Engage: A New American Way of War	12
With Trump’s Return, the Transatlantic ‘Great Debate’ Resumes	11
A Shield for Europe: Reviving the European Defence Community	11
Finance, Strategy and European Autonomy	10
Whither Wagner? The Consequences of Prigozhin’s Mutiny and Demise	9
How the War Has Changed Russia	9
War, Conflict and the Military	9
United States	9
The War Within: Gaza, Netanyahu and Israel’s Security Services	9
Culture and Society	9
NATO Facing China: Responses and Adaptations	8
Two Cheers for Biden’s Ukraine Policy	8
The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler	8
With the Fall of Assad, Can Syria Rise?	8

The Energy Transition, Protectionism and Transatlantic Relations	8
Germany’s Strategic Reorientations, Present and Past	8
Russia and Eurasia	7
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
Deterrence and Arms Control	6
The Meaning of ‘Strategic’ in US National-security Policy	6
Ukraine vs Gaza	6
The Battle for the Internet	5
South Asia	5
United States	5
Brief Notices	5
Assessing Proliferation Risks in the Middle East	5
Preventing Nuclear War	5
In the Shadow of Ukraine: India’s Choices and Challenges	5
The Black Sea in the Shadow of War	5
War with China	5
Europe’s Fragile Unity	5
The Choice for Sanctions	5
Europe’s Security Crisis: The Case for ‘Active Pessimism’	5
Ukraine’s IT Army	5
America’s Defence of Its Partners in the Middle East	5
Middle East	5
Divisions of Labour: Security Cooperation Between Japan, South Korea and the United States	5
United States	4
How to Think About State Sponsorship of Terrorism	4
Reading Clausewitz: On War for 21st-century Practitioners	4
Geopolitical Forecasting and Actionable Intelligence	4
Brief Notices	4
Rethinking Arms Control with a Nuclear North Korea	4
Environment and Resources	4
Noteworthy	3
What Putin Fights For	3
The Kurdish Predicament in US–Turkiye Relations	3
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	3
Time Is Short: Ukraine, Taiwan and the Echoes of 1941	3
The Primitivisation of Major Warfare	3
Forum: Towards a European Nuclear Deterrent	3
The Resilience Requirement: Responding to China’s Rise as a Technology Power	3
Challenging Nuclear Bromides	3
Applying History: Gaza and the Twentieth Century	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
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine: Three Lessons for a Post-war Order	3
Africa	3
The Death of Nasrallah and the Fate of Lebanon	3
Protecting US Interests in Afghanistan	2
The Crowded Red Sea	2
Israel and the Palestinians: The Day After	2
Indo-Pacific Dilemmas: The Like-minded and the Non-aligned	2
Britain in the Pacific: Staying the Course?	2
India and US FONOPs: Oceans Apart	2

Kissinger and Monnet: Realpolitik and Interdependence in World Affairs	2
Counter-terrorism and Intelligence	2
Getting China Right	2
Russia and Eurasia	2
Towards Nuclear Stewardship with China	2
The Risk and Reward of Preventive Strikes Against Iran	2
The United States vs Brazil: Tariffs and Punishment	2
Connecting Intelligence and Policy	2
America’s ‘Ungoverning’ in Global Context	2
Four Circles: Comprehending the China Challenge	2
Ukraine in NATO: Beyond the ‘Irreversible Path’	2
South Korea's Aircraft-carrier Debate	2
Europe’s China Problem: How Not to Feed Beijing’s Military–Civil Fusion	2
Noteworthy	2
Oppenheimer: The Man, the Movie and Nuclear DreadOppenheimer (American film), Christopher Nolan, director and writer. Distributed by Universal Pictures, 2023.	2
Israel’s Perilous Revisionism	2
China and America: How Xi Jinping Has Changed the Game	2
Brief Notices	2
The Cyber Dimension of the Russia–Ukraine War	2
Noteworthy	2
The War in Ukraine and the European Central Bank	2
Brief Notices	2
Asia-Pacific	1
Noteworthy	1
Latin America	1
Forum: European Nuclear Deterrence and Donald Trump	1
Can the US and China Forge a Cold Peace?	1
China’s Legal Diplomacy	1
An Iraq Syndrome?	1
Asia-Pacific	1
Asia-Pacific	1
The US in the Middle East: Stupid or Merely Fallible?	1
The Geopolitics of Governance	1
America Needs a Realistic Ukraine Debate	1
Putin’s Ideological State	1
Switzerland’s Neutrality Crisis	1
Sadie’s People	1
Ireland’s Future: United, European and in NATO	1
Castroism in Crisis	1
Brief Notices	1
Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Risks: What’s New and What Matters	1
The Weakness of Indispensable Leaders	1
Culture and War	1
The Coup that Wasn’t: Jimmy Carter and Iran	1
Alliance of Revisionists: A New Era for the Transatlantic Relationship	1
Noteworthy	1
War, Conflict and the Military	1
The Zeitenwende at Work: Germany’s National Security Strategy	1
Brief Notices	1
Ersatz Intelligence	1
Correction	1
NATO’s New Members and the Baltic Strategic Balance	1
A Fragile Convergence: The US–Japan–South Korea Camp David Summit	1
Israel at War, One Year On	1
The Green Transition and European Industry	1
The Renegade Within: NATO’s American Dilemma	1
Noteworthy	1
Noteworthy	1
Russia and Eurasia	1
Brief Notices	1
Middle East	1
Harnessing the Power of Cyber Defence	1
Ukraine’s Fate and Europe’s Future: A View from Sweden	1
Secret Intelligence and Public Diplomacy in the Ukraine War	1
Cause for Relief? US Strategic Policies in Trump’s Second Term	1
Europe Without America	1
Noteworthy	1