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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies	23
Introduction: promoting restraint in war	21
A price for peace: troop contributing countries’ responses to peacekeeper fatalities	14
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	12
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	12
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	11
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	9
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	9
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	7
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	7
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	6
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	6
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	6
Domestic Support for Foreign Aid: Development Firms and Support for Foreign Aid in the US Congress	5
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	5
Populism, Party Ideology, and Economic Expropriations	5
The Power of Boilerplate: Bilateralism, Plurilateralism, and the International Tax System	5
American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions	5
Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies	5
Troop-providers' ideational commitment to UN peacekeeping and effectiveness	5
Unpacking Urban (Dis)Continuities of Postwar Violence	5
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and votes in favor of Russia in the UN General Assembly	5
Do birds of a feather deter better? Cultural affinity and alliance deterrence	5
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	4
Repression and backlash protests: Why leader arrests backfire	4

Why do states contribute to the global refugee governance? Fiscal burden-sharing in the post-2011 Syrian refugee crisis	4
Compliant or defiant? Economic sanctions and United Nations General Assembly voting by target countries	4
Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?	4
Getting to yes: The role of creditor coordination in debt restructuring negotiations	4
Sexual violence in the shadows: Private military contractors and the perpetration of sexual violence	4
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	4
Western diplomacy and state access to capital	4
Domestic politics and requests for UNESCO’s international assistance program	4
Sanctions, aid, and voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly	3
International Interactions best paper award 2022	3
Democratic Erosion, Partisanship, and Election Observers: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	3
IMF: International Migration Fund	3
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	3
Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support	3
U.S. Military Training, External Support, and Security Defections during Nonviolent Resistance	3
Bombs and Banners: Battlefield Dynamics and Armed Groups’ Use of Nonviolent Tactics in Civil War	3
Can’t Live with Them or Can’t Live without Them? How Varying Roles of Women in Rebel Groups Influence One-Sided Violence	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
Corrupting the Battlefield: How Corruption Influences Belligerents’ Battlefield Performance	3
The Political Settlements Dataset: Power Configurations and Political Blocs in the Global South, 1946-2018	3
Speaking of civilians: Automated text analysis of the United Nations’ framing of complex humanitarian emergencies	3
Recurrent neural networks for conflict forecasting	3
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons	3
Peaceful dyads: A territorial perspective	3
Understanding the effect of madman leaders on economic sanctions	3
Shifting sands: How change-point and community detection can enrich our understanding of international politics	2
Agents of peace or enablers of violence? The proximal effects of mediators in international disputes	2
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	2
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	2
UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict	2
Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data	2
Not All Stationary Bandits are the Same: Ethnicity, Insurgency Goals, and Welfare Service Provision	2
Corruption among government security forces and sexual violence against civilians	2
Banditry or business? Rebel labor markets and state economic intervention	2
Nothing Compares? Investigating the Cost of Food as a Driver of Urban Unrest	2
Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict	2
The International Committee of the Red Cross and support for civilian self-protection in Colombia	2
International Interactions best paper award 2020	2
The Three R’s of CEDAW Commitment: Ratification, Reservation, and Rejection	2
Answering the Call: Why Aid Allies in Cyber Conflict?	2
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	2
Control, dispute, and concentration of land during civil war: Evidence from Colombia	2
Human trafficking indicators: A new dataset	2
Dangerous Development: The Effect of Offshore Fossil-Fuel Discovery and Production on Maritime Diplomatic Conflict	2
Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates	2
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	2
Significant Incidents against Americans Abroad: Introducing a New Dataset	1
Making sense of violence in semi-technologized conventional civil war: Evidence from nineteenth-century Japan	1
Competing authorities and norms of restraint: governing community-embedded armed groups in South Sudan	1

Citizen Responses to Donor-Centeredness in the US-China Public Diplomacy Competition	1
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	1
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	1
Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence	1
Release or Repress? The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Capital Account Openness	1
The Invisible Impact of Conflict: A Study of Terrorism, Regime Type, and the Shadow Economy	1
Tracing the Footsteps of Peace: Examining the Locations of UN Peacekeeping Patrols ¹	1
Is terrorism deadlier in democracies?	1
Correction	1
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	1
Direction Augmentation in the Evaluation of Armed Conflict Predictions	1
High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory	1
Predicting escalating and de-escalating violence in Africa using Markov models	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
“Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands	1
Do Safety Expectations Affect the Location Strategies of Large Service Delivery INGOs?	1
Peaceful Conflict Resolution through Densely Gender-Equal International Organizations	1
Boon, bane, or business as usual: Perceptions of the economic consequences of peacekeeping withdrawal from Liberia	1
The logic of sexual violence by state security forces in civil wars	1
Pleasing the Buyer: Human Rights Experts from Exporting Countries and Praise of Importing Countries	1
Political protests and the diversionary use of media: Evidence from China	1