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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	35
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	29
Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock	20
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	14
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	12
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	11
The Alliance Is Talking: Introducing the NATO Secretary General Document (NATO-SGD) Corpus	10
Relative BATNAs and the duration of international negotiations: The case of trade	9
When reintegration of ex-combatants turns deadly: The state’s role in preventing post-conflict homicides	8
To punish or to reward? The effect of sanction threats on public opinion	8
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	7
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	7
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	7
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	7
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	7
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	6
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	6
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	6
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	6
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	5
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	5
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	5
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	5
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	5
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	5

The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	5
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	5
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	4
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	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
IMF: International Migration Fund	4
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	4
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	4
What lurks beneath the tip of the iceberg? Exploring the “missingness” problem in cyber events data	4
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	4
International Interactions best paper award 2022	4
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	4
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	4
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	3
Gender, militaries, and coups during nonviolent uprisings in nondemocracies	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	3
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	3
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	3
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	3
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
From ice to fire: A quantitative analysis of violent thawings in non-international frozen conflicts	3
Is it all the same? Repression of the media and civil society organizations as determinants of anti-government opposition	3
Climate Harshness, Opportunity, and Environmental Violence	3
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	3
Rights violations and international public opinion	2
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2
Leader visits and nuclear pursuit	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
Introducing the tracking of terrorist organization splintering (TOTOS) dataset	2
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	2
Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics	2
Introducing REBLEX: A new dataset on rebel leaders in exile	2
Learning from betrayal: How do lessons from the past shape future alliance treaty designs?	2
Quantifying women’s rights naming and shaming: A novel text-as-data approach	2
Bolts from the blue: How technological novelty impacts crisis decision-making	2
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	2
Hegemonic shocks and patterns of secession	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
When international meets domestic: The interactive effect of domestic and international election observers	2
Release or Repress? The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Capital Account Openness	1
A network analysis of naming and shaming in the universal periodic review	1
A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1

Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Beyond Threats: How Allies and Bureaucratic Competition Shape the Initial Development of Military Cyber Capabilities	1
The Strong, the Weak, and the Honored: Examining the decline in honored alliances post-1945	1
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	1
Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	1
With age comes wisdom: Campaign duration and the countervailing effects of participant diversity	1
Pay to play? Voluntary contributions and national representation in international organizations	1
Correction	1
How women promote peace: Gender composition, duration, and frames in conflict resolution	1
Taking time seriously: Predicting conflict fatalities using temporal fusion transformers	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
Women Suicide Terrorism: The Strategic and Tactical Logic of Civilian Killings	1
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	1
Making sense of violence in semi-technologized conventional civil war: Evidence from nineteenth-century Japan	1