OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Washington Quarterly 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	20
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War	19
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	13
India-US Relations: Pakistan Re-emerges in Trump 2.0	11
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	11
Taiwan: What Could, Should and Will Australia Do?	11
Will Putin Stop at Ukraine? That’s the Wrong Question	10
Russia’s Foreign Policy After the Ukrainian Crisis	10
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	9
Who Was Afraid of Russia? The Forgotten Evidence of the 1990s	9
Surprising Stability in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Since 2012	9
Protecting Undersea Cables and South Korea’s Role	9
The Devil’s in the Differences: Ukraine and a Taiwan Contingency	8
Can the Iron Dome Be Transmuted into a Golden Dome?	8
History’s Revenge: NATO’s Nuclear-Conventional Debate Returns	8
Transforming the Industrial Heartlands: a Transatlantic Initiative	8
Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam	7
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	7
Recalibrating the Five Eyes Alliance	7
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance	7
A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	6
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	6
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	6
How to End a Military Intervention	5
Ukraine and the End of Peacemaking	5

Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	5
Japan’s Taiwan Policy: Strategic Shift or Tactical Adaptation?	5
Japan’s Nuclear Balance: Deterrence and Disarmament	5
The Real US Energy Security Problem—And How to Fix It	4
Modernizing US Indian Ocean Strategy	4
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	4
Can Armed Statebuilding Succeed in Ukraine, Gaza or Taiwan?	4
Sino-Russian Splits: Divergences in Autocratic Coercion	3
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	3
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	3
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	3
Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications	3
Nuclear Risks Rise as Great-Power Conflict Goes On	3
Enduring Constraints on China’s Influence in Southeast Asia	3
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	3
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability	3
Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	3
The Next Chapter in US Nuclear Policy	3
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	3
The Real Challenge of China’s Nuclear Modernization	2
A Neglected Region? The Strategic Value of the South Atlantic	2
When Actions Match Words: Japan’s National Security Strategy at One Year	2
China’s Strategic Calculus: It’s Not Just About Economics	2
How Putin’s Regime Survivalism Drives Russian Aggression	2
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Belarus? Motivations and Consequences	2
The Return of Crisis Diplomacy: Ukraine, Taiwan and Beyond	2
China’s US-Driven Middle East Strategy	2
A Potential Conflict over Taiwan: A View from India	2
Tokyo’s Taiwan Conundrum: What Can Japan Do to Prevent War?	2
Back to the Future: A Tripartite Framework for Resolving the Palestinian Issue	2
Recalibrating Arms Control for Emerging Technologies	2
Emerging Technologies and Southern Asian Nuclear Deterrence	2
Economic Self-Reliance in a Leaderless World	2
A New Concert for Europe: Security and Order After the War	2
Is There an American Way of War? Why the Answer Must Be No	2
Starving Russia’s War Economy	2
China’s America Policy: Back to the Future	2
Merging Development and Diplomacy: What Might the US Learn?	2
Russia’s Drive for AI: Do Deeds Match the Words?	1
On Targeted Killing and Warfare	1
Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine	1
Small Modular Reactors: The Coming Wave of Nuclear Energy Competition	1
America’s Advantages: Contending with China’s Tech Rise	1
Defending Taiwan: But … What Are the Costs?	1
Iran’s Strategic Crossroads: Options Beyond the Axis?	1
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy	1
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space	1
Kishida the Accelerator: Japan's Defense Evolution After Abe	1
Does Ideology Explain Chinese Policy Today?	1
Are Proxy Wars Coming Back?	1

Six Options for Israel in Gaza	1
The End of Inhibition? Why US Nonproliferation Policy Is Becoming Less Effective	1
A US Strategy for Advancing EU Enlargement	1
The Elusive Consensus: Diverging US Views on Competition against China	1
Considering a US-Supported Self-Defense Option for Taiwan	1
Emerging Tech and the Israel-Iran Nuclear Relationship	1
Upsetting the Balance: Why Russia Chose Hamas over Israel	1
How Putin Tore Up His Playbook for Victory	1
European Strategic Autonomy: The Path to a Geopolitical Europe	1
Climate Change Could Rupture Sino-Russian Relations	1
Beijing’s Banking Balloon: China’s Core Economic Challenge in the New Era	1