OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Washington Quarterly is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Remote Sanctions-Busting: A Post-COVID New Normal?	23
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War	22
Embedded Nationalism in a Fragmented World: Lula’s Brazil	14
Germany’s Nuclear Aspirations and Strategic Compromise	13
India-US Relations: Pakistan Re-emerges in Trump 2.0	12
Social Media Influencers and Diplomacy’s Evolution	11
French Nuclear Ambiguity at a Crossroads	10
Protecting Undersea Cables and South Korea’s Role	10
Russia’s Foreign Policy After the Ukrainian Crisis	10
Will Putin Stop at Ukraine? That’s the Wrong Question	10
Who Was Afraid of Russia? The Forgotten Evidence of the 1990s	9
History’s Revenge: NATO’s Nuclear-Conventional Debate Returns	9
Surprising Stability in the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Since 2012	9
The Geopolitics of Energy after the Invasion of Ukraine	9
The Devil’s in the Differences: Ukraine and a Taiwan Contingency	9
Thinking the Unthinkable: South Korea as a US Nuclear Ally?	8
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance	7
Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam	7
Can the Iron Dome Be Transmuted into a Golden Dome?	7
A Fragile Equilibrium: Incentivizing Pakistan’s Regional Recalibration	6
Eyes Wide Open: Strategic Elite Views of South Korea’s Nuclear Options	6
The Ideology Barriers to Anti-China Coalitions	6
Recalibrating the Five Eyes Alliance	6
How to End a Military Intervention	5
Ukraine and the End of Peacemaking	5

A Finely Fractured Consensus: American Motivations for Rules-Based Order	5
Japan’s Taiwan Policy: Strategic Shift or Tactical Adaptation?	5
Anticipating Europe’s Nuclear Futures	5
Managing the Dilemmas of Alliance Burden Sharing	4
Japan’s Nuclear Balance: Deterrence and Disarmament	4
The Real US Energy Security Problem—And How to Fix It	4
Reshaping Strategic Flexibility in the ROK-US Alliance	3
Bidenomics in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Implications	3
The Next Chapter in US Nuclear Policy	3
Adapting NATO to Great-Power Competition	3
Still Getting Asia Wrong: No “Contain China” Coalition Exists	3
Can Armed Statebuilding Succeed in Ukraine, Gaza or Taiwan?	3
Limited Leverage: Nuclear Latency in South Korea’s Alliance Bargaining	3
The Cassandra Trap: How Beijing Could Come to Doubt Its Own Digital Oracles	3
Curbing China’s Resilience to US Coercive Economic Statecraft	3
Enduring Constraints on China’s Influence in Southeast Asia	3
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability	3
Modernizing US Indian Ocean Strategy	3
Nuclear Risks Rise as Great-Power Conflict Goes On	3
Backstopping Ukraine’s Long-Term Security: An Alternative to NATO Membership	3
The Elusive Indo-Pacific Coalition: Why Geography Matters	3