OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Security is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back	43
Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19	32
The Subversive Trilemma: Why Cyber Operations Fall Short of Expectations	28
PRC Assertiveness in the South China Sea: Measuring Continuity and Change, 1970–2015	27
Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War	26
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity	24
Why Drones Have Not Revolutionized War: The Enduring Hider-Finder Competition in Air Warfare	24
Conventional Counterforce Dilemmas: South Korea's Deterrence Strategy and Stability on the Korean Peninsula	15
Rise or Recede? How Climate Disasters Affect Armed Conflict Intensity	13
White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States	12
Noncombat Participation in Rebellion: A Gendered Typology	12
Pier Competitor: China's Power Position in Global Ports	11
Soldiers' Dilemma: Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conflict	11
The Rule of Law and the Role of Strategy in U.S. Nuclear Doctrine	9
Then What? Assessing the Military Implications of Chinese Control of Taiwan	9
Insurgent Armies: Military Obedience and State Formation after Rebel Victory	9
Elite Competition, Social Movements, and Election Violence in Nigeria	9
Caught Red-Handed: How States Wield Proof to Coerce Wrongdoers	9
“Wars without Gun Smoke”: Global Supply Chains, Power Transitions, and Economic Statecraft	7
How Much Risk Should the United States Run in the South China Sea?	7
The Dynamics of an Entangled Security Dilemma: China's Changing Nuclear Posture	7
To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States	7
Why Rebels Stop Fighting: Organizational Decline and Desertion in Colombia's Insurgency	7
The United States and the NATO Non-extension Assurances of 1990: New Light on an Old Problem?	7
When Do Ideological Enemies Ally?	6

Defending the United States: Revisiting National Missile Defense against North Korea	6
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	6
Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers	6
Water and Warfare: The Evolution and Operation of the Water Taboo	6
Wartime Commercial Policy and Trade between Enemies	5
Assessing China-U.S. Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation	5
The Belligerent Bear: Russia, Status Orders, and War	5
Strategic Substitution: China's Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age	5
Collective Resilience: Deterring China's Weaponization of Economic Interdependence	4
Racialization and International Security	4
Narratives and War: Explaining the Length and End of U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan	3
Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness	3
Arms Control as Wedge Strategy: How Arms Limitation Deals Divide Alliances	3
The Path to Atonement: West Germany and Israel after the Holocaust	3
Racism, Stereotypes, and War	3
The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship	3
The Case for Campaign Analysis: A Method for Studying Military Operations	3
Decline and Disintegration: National Status Loss and Domestic Conflict in Post-Disaster Spain	3
Small Satellites, Big Data: Uncovering the Invisible in Maritime Security	3
The Power of Putin in Russian Foreign Policy	2
The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in China's International Crises	2
Nowhere to Hide? Global Policing and the Politics of Extradition	2
The Nuclear Balance Is What States Make of It	2
When Foreign Countries Push the Button	2
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars: Why States Delegate Rebel Support to Conduit Countries	2