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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From Affirmative to Assertive Patriots: Nationalism in Xi Jinping’s China	14
Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown: Are Sanctions Really to Blame?	13
Democratic Deterrence: How to Dissuade Hybrid Interference	12
The Geopolitics of the Rare-Metals Race	12
Middle Power Diplomacy in an Age of US-China Tensions	11
Complicating China’s Rise: Rural Underemployment	10
Bipolarity is Back: Why It Matters	9
Japan’s New Economic Statecraft	8
US-China Crossroads Ahead: Perils and Opportunities for Biden	7
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability	7
The Case for Maintaining Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait	6
Have We Passed the Peak of Sino-Russian Rapprochement?	6
So, Is Russia Fascist Now? Labels and Policy Implications	6
The Trump Effect: China’s New Thoughts on the United States	5
A Grand Strategy of Democratic Solidarity	5
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	5
Between Guilt and Responsibility: The Legacy of Spheres in Germany	5
How South Korea Can Contribute to the Defense of Taiwan	4
Russia in the Era of Great Power Competition	4
America's Role in a Post-American Middle East	4
NATO’s China Role: Defending Cyber and Outer Space	4
Revitalizing Transatlantic Relations: NATO 2030 and Beyond	4
The Real Challenge of China’s Nuclear Modernization	4
India’s A La Carte Minilateralism: AUKUS and the Quad	4
Lessons in Sanctions-Proofing from Russia	4

Cooperation under Asymmetry? The Future of US-China Nuclear Relations	3
Legal, but Lethal: The Law of Armed Conflict and US Nuclear Strategy	3
Getting ASEAN Right in US Indo-Pacific Strategy	3
China’s Economic Statecraft: Lessons Learned from Ukraine	3
China’s Potential Lessons from Ukraine for Conflict over Taiwan	3
European Strategic Autonomy: The Path to a Geopolitical Europe	3
Bangladesh and the Rohingya Crisis: The Need for a Long-Term Strategy	3
Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine	3
Why the United States Is Losing—And Russia and Iran Are Winning	3
The Ibn Khaldûn Trap and Great Power Competition with China	3
Vulnerable US Alliances in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear Implications	3
Tokyo’s Taiwan Conundrum: What Can Japan Do to Prevent War?	3
The COVID-19 Effect: US-China Narratives and Realities	3
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	2
Discolored Revolutions: Information Warfare in Russia’s Grand Strategy	2
China: Revolutionary or Revisionist?	2
A Model Alliance? The Strategic Logic of US-Australia Cooperation	2
The Rocky Future of the US-Israeli Special Relationship	2
A Military Drawdown in Germany? US Force Posture in Europe from Trump to Biden	2
Ukraine’s Implications for Indo-Pacific Alignment	2
Taking US Foreign Policy for the Middle Class Seriously	2
The Road Not Yet Taken: Regionalizing US Policy Toward Russia	2
How Autocrats Manipulate Online Information: Putin’s and Xi’s Playbooks	2
Kishida the Accelerator: Japan's Defense Evolution After Abe	2
The End of Inhibition? Why US Nonproliferation Policy Is Becoming Less Effective	2
How Putin’s Regime Survivalism Drives Russian Aggression	2
Will Europe Defend Taiwan?	2
Mind the Gaps: Reading South Korea’s Emergent Proliferation Strategy	2
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	2
Orienting the 2021 Nuclear Posture Review	2
How to Defend Taiwan: Leading with Economic Warfare	1
India, Russia and the Ukraine Crisis	1
A Call to Arms: Kim Jong Un and the Tactical Bomb	1
Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	1
Putting the Trans-Pacific Partnership Back on the Table	1
De-Risking Is Not Enough: Tech Denial Toward China Is Needed	1
A Potential Conflict over Taiwan: A View from India	1
Lessons Learned from Afghanistan: The First Political Order	1
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	1
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	1
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	1
The War in Ukraine and Eurasia’s New Imperial Moment	1
Sino-Russian Splits: Divergences in Autocratic Coercion	1
Maritime Coalitions and Deterrence: Beware the Melian Choice	1
How to Distance Russia from China	1
Is Non-Nuclearization Sustainable? Explaining South Korea’s Strategic Choices	1
Updating Dollar Diplomacy: Leading on Digital Currency Standards	1
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	1
North Korea’s Strategically Ambiguous Nuclear Posture	1
Reducing Nuclear Salience: How to Reassure Northeast Asian Allies	1

The Case Against Nuclear Sharing in East Asia	1
Can South Korea Trust the United States?	1
All About Access: Solving America’s Force Posture Puzzle	1
A New Concert for Europe: Security and Order After the War	1
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	1