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

Article	Citations
Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict	69
The Peril of Peaking Powers: Economic Slowdowns and Implications for China's Next Decade	62
Quo Vadis, Russian Deterrence? Strategic Culture and Coercion Innovations	40
Summaries	39
Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe	28
Keeping Pace with the Times: China's Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning	28
To Agree or Not to Agree: Hawks, Doves, and Regime Type in International Rivalry and Rapprochement	28
Conventional Deterrence of Nuclear Use	20
Lost in Transmission: Bureaucracy, Noise, and Communication in International Politics	19
Correspondence: Debating U.S. Security Assistance	19
Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia	18
The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails	16
Summaries	15
Editors' Note	15
We All Fall Down: The Dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and the End of the Cold War in Eastern Europe	14
Reining in Rebellion: The Decline of Political Violence in South America, 1830–1929	14
Small Satellites, Big Data: Uncovering the Invisible in Maritime Security	13
Summaries	12
Editors' Note	11
Hedging on Hegemony: The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China	11
Reviewers for Volume 46	11
Defending the United States: Revisiting National Missile Defense against North Korea	10
Summaries	9
Decline and Disintegration: National Status Loss and Domestic Conflict in Post-Disaster Spain	9
Soldiers' Dilemma: Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conflict	9

The U.S.-China Military Balance in Space	8
U.S. Space Power and Alliance Dynamics in the Cold War	8
Correspondence: Debating China's Use of Overseas Ports	7
The Meddler's Trap: McKinley, the Philippines, and the Difficulty of Letting Go	7
Stabilizing Civil Wars without Peacekeeping: Evidence from South Asia	7
Narratives and War: Explaining the Length and End of U.S. Military Operations in Afghanistan	5
Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy	5
When Foreign Countries Push the Button	5
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity	5
Prediction and Judgment: Why Artificial Intelligence Increases the Importance of Humans in War	4
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars: Why States Delegate Rebel Support to Conduit Countries	4
Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness	4
Back to Bipolarity: How China's Rise Transformed the Balance of Power	4
Boom, Bling, Backbone, or Blip? The Signaling Inherent in Arms Transfers	4
The U.S.-China Stability-Instability Paradox: Limited War in East Asia	4
What Does China Want?	4
Editors' Note	4
Summaries	3
Foreign Intervention and Internal Displacement: Urban Politics in Postwar Beirut	3
The Path to Atonement: West Germany and Israel after the Holocaust	3
Summaries	3
Reviewers for Volume 48	3
Competing Visions of Restraint	2
The Dynamics of an Entangled Security Dilemma: China's Changing Nuclear Posture	2
Racialization and International Security	2
A Farewell to Arms? Election Results and Lasting Peace after Civil War	2