OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Strategic Studies is 3. 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
Coercion by military assistance: A two-level strategy	42
Deterrence asymmetry and strategic stability in Europe	37
A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy	29
Current Russian perspectives on strategic stability and deterrence through the prism of strategic culture	16
From the editors	15
From the editors	14
From the editors	14
Hear no evil, see no evil: Why the United States gets net assessment wrong	13
When competition becomes contagious: Strategic arms racing spillovers, alliance politics, and the Sino-American nuclear competition	12
Battlefield knowledge and barracks reality: Learning practices within the Netherlands Army	12
The evolution of China’s ballistic missile defense	12
A one-way attack drone revolution? Affordable mass precision in modern conflict	12
Strategic studies and cyber warfare	12
Introduction	11
On military restoration: How militaries recover from battlefield surprise	11
The quest for asymmetric advantages in a multi-domain environment	10
Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture	10
What contributions do anti-insurgent militias produce during armed conflict? Exploring the capabilities of anti-insurgent militias in Colombia and the Philippines	9
Evolving towards military innovation: AI and the Australian Army	9
From the editors	8
History is written by the losers: Strategy and grand strategy in the aftermath of war	7
From the editors	7
Did the Bush Administration mean well?	6
The transatlantic basis of war and peace, 1914–1917	6
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft	6

Evolution of the Argentina Ministry of Defense since 1983: Organizations, norms, and personnel	6
‘Like-minded and like-acting.’ Central Europe, the West, and the overlooked factor of the Warsaw Pact’s demise	6
From the editors	6
Explaining the 2003 Iraq war (again) - Gore-war vs. Gore-peace revisited	6
Tracking mobile missiles	6
The weakest link: The vulnerability of U.S. and allied global information networks in the nuclear age	6
Anticipatory governance and new weapons of war: Lessons from the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons	6
How small states break oil sanctions: Israel’s oil import strategy in the 1970s	5
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war	5
What does NATO do for you? Advancing the debate on NATO’s endurance and enlargement	5
The strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons: A framework for analysis	5
Building engines for war: Air-cooled radial aircraft engine production in Britain and America in World War II	5
Is the decline of war a delusion? The long peace phenomenon and the modernization peace – the explanation that refutes or subsumes all others	5
The effectiveness of coercive intelligence disclosure: The case of Israel and the German scientists in Egypt	4
Unpacking the varying strategic logics of total defence	4
When tanks tank and bombs bomb: Understanding failure in military innovation	4
Reply to Frank Harvey – what counterfactuals cannot do	4
Re-examining the introduction of 280 mm Cannons and Honest John Rockets into Korea, January 1958	4
The intelligence intellectuals: Social scientists and the making of the CIA	4
The end of MAD? Technological innovation and the future of nuclear retaliatory capabilities	4
From the editors	3
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7	3
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject	3
New technology, old strategy: Cyberspace and the international politics of African agency	3
Ceci n’est pas une nuke? The impact of emerging militarised technologies on strategic stability	3
Rethinking Gore-War: Counterfactuals and the 2003 Iraq War	3
The genesis of the first strategic stealth bomber: Understanding the interactions between strategy, bureaucracy, politics, and technology	3
The deterrence-provocation continuum in the context of Russian strategic culture: Hypersensitivity, holism-conspiracism, and sacred great power status	3
Awe for strategic effect: Hardly worth the trouble	3
Trust but verify: Satellite reconnaissance, secrecy and arms control during the Cold War	3
Understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine: Political, eschatological and cataclysmic dimensions	3
Is India underbalancing China?	3
Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare	3
How the United States lost the “forever war”	3
Norway, deterrence, reassurance and strategic stability in Europe	3