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

Article	Citations
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	23
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	21
How moral foundations shape public approval of nuclear, chemical, and conventional strikes: new evidence from experimental surveys	19
Success of economic sanctions threats: coercion, information and commitment	13
Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics	13
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	11
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	11
Should I stay or should I go? The decision to flee or stay home during civil war	10
Making trains from boxcars: studying conflict and conflict management interdependencies	9
Labor rights in comparative perspective: The WorkR dataset	9
Conflict and cooperation with trade partners	9
Local competitive authoritarianism and post-conflict violence. An analysis of the assassination of social leaders in Colombia	8
Conflict forecasting with event data and spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks	8
Regime type and co-sponsorship in the UN General Assembly	8
Deprivation, instability, and propensity to attack: how urbanization influences terrorism	7
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	7
Dictators, personalized security forces, and coups	6
Combatant rank and socialization to norms of restraint: examining the Australian and Philippine armies	6
The colonial roots of structural coup-proofing	6
A price for peace: troop contributing countries’ responses to peacekeeper fatalities	6
Land use and the incidence of forced displacement	5
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	5
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	5
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	5
Signaling restraint: international engagement and rebel groups’ commitment to international law	5

High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	5
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	5
Rivalry, ethnicity, and asylum admissions worldwide	5
Race to the bottom: Spatial aggregation and event data	4
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	4
Peaceful dyads: A territorial perspective	4
Forecasting conflict using a diverse machine-learning ensemble: Ensemble averaging with multiple tree-based algorithms and variance promoting data configurations	4
Risk preferences, uncertainty, and war	4
Covid-19 insecurities and migration aspirations	4
Rebel recruitment and retention in civil conflict	4
Rebel command and control, time, and rebel group splits	4
A shape-based approach to conflict forecasting	4
Government ideology and bailout conditionality in the European financial crisis	4
Introduction: promoting restraint in war	4
The role of governmental weapons procurements in forecasting monthly fatalities in intrastate conflicts: A semiparametric hierarchical hurdle model	4
Women in uniform: the opening of combat roles in state militaries	4
Categorization in international organizations	3
Will you still love me tomorrow? Partisan electoral interventions, foreign policy compliance, and voting in the UN	3
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	3
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	3
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	3
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	3
Mutual gain or resource drain? Attitudes toward international financial assistance during the early COVID-19 pandemic	3
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	3
Political turnover, regime type, and investment behavior	3
Complementary mediation: Exploring mediator composition in civil wars	3
Norms, non-combatants’ agency and restraint in jihadi violence in northern Mali	3
The (still) mysterious case of agricultural protectionism	3
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	3
Crowding out the field: External Support to Insurgents and the Intensity of Inter-rebel Fighting in Civil Wars	3
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	3
Forecasting change in conflict fatalities with dynamic elastic net	3
The International Committee of the Red Cross and support for civilian self-protection in Colombia	3
The populist radical right and military intervention: A coincidence analysis of military deployment votes	2
Predicting (de-)escalation of sub-national violence using gradient boosting: Does it work?	2
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	2
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	2
Conflict management trajectories: theory and evidence	2
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	2
IMF: International Migration Fund	2
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	2
Plausible deniability? An investigation of government and government-outsourced violence in refugee hosting areas	2
Predicting political violence using a state-space model	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	2
Costly signaling in autocracy	2
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	2
Human trafficking indicators: A new dataset	2
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	2
Racing to the Bottom? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Labor Rights	2

Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	2
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	2
Competing authorities and norms of restraint: governing community-embedded armed groups in South Sudan	2
Oil discovery, oil production, and coups d’état	1
Banditry or business? Rebel labor markets and state economic intervention	1
Military in the cabinet and defense spending of civilian governments	1
Willful ignorance in international coercion	1
Documenting energy flows between states: The Global Energy Relations Dataset (GERD), 1978–2014	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	1
Constraints and military coordination: How ICTs shape the intensity of rebel violence	1
The Strong, the Weak, and the Honored: Examining the decline in honored alliances post-1945	1
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	1
Where You Sit Matters: The Power of Brokers in Diplomatic Networks & Interstate Conflict	1
Rewards versus Sanctions in International Relations: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bluffing	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Does female ratio balancing influence the efficacy of peacekeeping units? Exploring the impact of female peacekeepers on post-conflict outcomes and behavior	1
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	1
Strategic Samaritanism: how armed conflict affects aid receipts	1
When the levee breaks: A forecasting model of violent and nonviolent dissent	1
Helping without hurting: ameliorating the negative effects of humanitarian assistance on civil wars through mediation	1
Sexual violence along ethnic lines? Revisiting rebel-civilian ethnic ties and wartime sexual violence	1
Shock Persistence and the Study of Armed Conflict: Empirical Biases and Some Remedies	1
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	1
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	1
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	1
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	1
Reputation or interaction: What determines cooperation on economic sanctions?	1
The issues are the issue: Intangible salience and war duration	1
Hard choices, soft targets: Terror proscription and strategic targeting decisions of FTO	1
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	1
Sanctions and target public opinion: Experimental evidence from Turkey	1
Democratizing the dispute: democratization and the history of conflict management	1
Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	1
Power and innovative capacity: Explaining variation in intellectual property rights regulation across trade agreements	1
Only Friends Can Betray You: International Rivalry and Domestic Politics	1
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	1
The micro-dynamics of conflict and peace: Evidence from Colombia	1