OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Strategic Studies is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Hearts and Minds’? British Counter-Insurgency from Malaya to Iraq	75
Abandoned at the Palace: Why the Tunisian Military Defected from the Ben Ali Regime in January 2011	46
When speed kills: Lethal autonomous weapon systems, deterrence and stability	38
The Chinese Defense Economy's Long March from Imitation to Innovation	37
Emerging technologies and strategic stability in peacetime, crisis, and war	29
The capability/vulnerability paradox and military revolutions: Implications for computing, cyber, and the onset of war	28
From Moscow with coercion: Russian deterrence theory and strategic culture	24
Emerging technology and intra-war escalation risks: Evidence from the Cold War, implications for today	24
Fancy bears and digital trolls: Cyber strategy with a Russian twist	23
How does the offense-defense balance scale?	23
Coercive diplomacy and the Donbas: Explaining Russian strategy in Eastern Ukraine	20
Asymmetric arms control and strategic stability: Scenarios for limiting hypersonic glide vehicles	19
The Futility of Force? Strategic Lessons for Dealing with Unconventional Armed Groups from the UN’s War on Haiti’s Gangs	16
Dual-use distinguishability: How 3D-printing shapes the security dilemma for nuclear programs	15
The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972: From policing to counter‐terror	15
Asymmetry of Values, Indigenous Forces, and Incumbent Success in Counterinsurgency: Evidence from Chechnya	15
How durable is the nuclear weapons taboo?	14
The concept of logistics derived from Clausewitz: All that is required so that the fighting force can be taken as a given	14
US cyber deterrence: Practice guiding theory	14
Japan’s Emerging Trajectory as a ‘Cyber Power’: From Securitization to Militarization of Cyberspace	12
Nuclear opportunism: A theory of how states use nuclear weapons in international politics	11
Strategy in theory; strategy in practice	11
Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Modern Wars – A Reply to Jones and Smith	11
Learning ‘Under Fire’: Israel’s improvised military adaptation to Hamas tunnel warfare	10
From one exceptionalism to another: France’s strategic relations with the United States and the United Kingdom in the post-Cold War era	10

Insights from a Database of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Militants	10
Robust and affordable security: Some lessons from the Second‐Ranking powers during the cold war	10
‘A Time of War’: contextual and organisational dimensions in the construction of combat motivation in the IDF	9
From Versailles to Geneva: The many forms of interwar disarmament	9
Lessons from Iraq and Bosnia on the Theory and Practice of No-fly Zones	9
Escalation in Irregular War: Using Strategic Theory to Examine from First Principles	9
Can Limited Intervention Work? Lessons from Britain’s Success Story in Sierra Leone	8
Signals of strength: Capability demonstrations and perceptions of military power	8
‘A mob of stragglers and cowards’: Desertion from the union and confederate armies, 1861–65	8
The State of UN Peacekeeping: Lessons from Congo	8
Nodal defence: the changing structure of U.S. alliance systems in Europe and East Asia	7
Beyond the Double Game: Lessons from Pakistan’s Approach to Islamist Militancy	7
Building the Somali National Army: Anatomy of a failure, 2008–2018	7
Countering Insurgents through Distributed Operations: Insights from Malaya 1948–1960	7
Analysing coalition warfare from an intra-alliance politics perspective: The Normandy Campaign 1944	7
Theory of strategic culture: An analytical framework for Russian cyber threat perception	6
Extended deterrence and assurance in an emerging technology environment	6
Counterinsurgency as armed reform: The political history of the Malayan Emergency	6
NATO 1949 and NATO 2000: From collective defense toward collective security	6
Civil-military relations and human security in a post-dictatorship	6
China’s Search for a ‘Strategic Air Force’	6
Meeting the China challenge: Some insights from scenario‐based planning	5
Civil–military relations and organisational preferences regarding the use of the military in Chinese foreign policy: insights from the debate on MOOTW	5
A Second Nuclear Revolution: From Nuclear Primacy to Post-Existential Deterrence	5
Visions of the Enemy from the Field and from Abroad: Revisiting CIA and Military Expectations of the Tet Offensive	5
From management crisis to crisis management? Japan’s post-2012 institutional reforms and Sino-Japanese crisis (In)stability	5
From ‘uralbomber’ to ‘amerikabomber’: The Luftwaffe and strategic bombing	5
From the sea to outer space: The command of space as the foundation of spacepower theory	5
Blood and robots: How remotely piloted vehicles and related technologies affect the politics of violence	5
In the balance: External troop support and rebel fragmentation in the Second Congo War	5