OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Interactions 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	31
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	30
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	25
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	17
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	16
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	15
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	13
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	13
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	11
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	9
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	9
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	9
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	8
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	8
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	8
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	7
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	7
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	7
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	7
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	7
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	6
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	6
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	6
Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	6
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	5

Domestic politics and requests for UNESCO’s international assistance program	5
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	5
Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	5
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	5
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	5
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	5
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	5
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	5
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	5
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	4
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	4
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	4
International Interactions best paper award 2022	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	4
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	4
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	4
Can’t Live with Them or Can’t Live without Them? How Varying Roles of Women in Rebel Groups Influence One-Sided Violence	4
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	4
IMF: International Migration Fund	4
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	4
Gender, militaries, and coups during nonviolent uprisings in nondemocracies	3
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
Rights violations and international public opinion	3
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	3
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	3
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	3
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (TOTOS) dataset	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	3
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	3
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	2
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach	2
Introducing REBLEX: A new dataset on rebel leaders in exile	2
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession	2
Beyond Threats: How Allies and Bureaucratic Competition Shape the Initial Development of Military Cyber Capabilities	2
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	2
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	2
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	2
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	2
Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	2
Leader visits and nuclear pursuit	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	2
Blame Games in Cyberspace: How Foreign Cues Shape Public Opinion on Cyber Attribution and Retribution	1

Public opinion and alliance commitments in cybersecurity an attack against all?	1
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
When international meets domestic: The interactive effect of domestic and international election observers	1
The Strong, the Weak, and the Honored: Examining the decline in honored alliances post-1945	1
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	1
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1
Pandemic Pass? Treaty Derogations and Human Rights Practices During COVID-19	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
Correction	1
Making sense of violence in semi-technologized conventional civil war: Evidence from nineteenth-century Japan	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	1
Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	1
Release or Repress? The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Capital Account Openness	1
Local competitive authoritarianism and post-conflict violence. An analysis of the assassination of social leaders in Colombia	1
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	1
The micro-dynamics of conflict and peace: Evidence from Colombia	1
Cyber Conflict & Domestic Audience Costs	1
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	1
Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Learning from betrayal: How do lessons from the past shape future alliance treaty designs?	1
With age comes wisdom: Campaign duration and the countervailing effects of participant diversity	1