OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Interactions 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 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
Utilitarianism or cosmopolitanism? A study of education’s impact on individual attitudes toward foreign countries	12
Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming	12
Are foreign firms good for the environment? FDI and protected areas	11
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	9
Are many sets of eyes better than one? Evaluating multiple databases of armed actors in Colombia	9
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	7
The Incentives of Leaders in International Organizations: Evidence from the UN General Assembly	7
The formation of attitudes toward immigration in Colombia	6
International human rights recommendations at home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)	6
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Precolonial Legacy of Centralized States	6
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
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
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
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
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
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