OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of War & Society is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish Ex-Servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932	6
Paying the Debts of the ‘Economy of Sacrifice’: Military Charities as Brokers in Veteran Care, 1919–1929	2
Drafting dissent: queer subversion of the GI underground press	1
Ideology as social practice: childhood and the politics of everyday in the Vietnam war	1
‘Sons go wrong without fathers’: Australian children and absent serviceman fathers in the Second World War	1
Inherited Sovereignty: ‘ Uti Possidetis Juri s’ and the Falklands/Malvinas dispute	1
Prostitution and the control of sexuality in the sixteenth century Spanish army	1
Boko Haram’s ‘playground’: Exploring the role of fun among children associated with armed groups in Nigeria	1
Framing War Disability through Masculinity: The Disabled Soldiers of the First World War in Portugal	1
War dead, trauma, and care: the differential reintegration of Vietnamese former combatants	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Hiroshima +75: building peace in Japan and beyond	1
Trenches on Latin American Screens and Football Fields: cultural and Sporting Life in Tacna and Arica (Chile) during the First World War	1
Money and the Regularisation of African Soldiers in the Early Phase of Italian Colonialism in Eritrea	1
The WARFUN taboo	1
The South African Native Labour Corps ‘Somewhere in France’: First World War photography, racial hierarchies and combatant status	1
War as a game: the pleasurable and playful aspects of the Italian Arditi ’s military experiences in the First World War	1
More than memories in black and white: visual practices and fascist colonialism in the Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935 − 41	0
Memorialisation of the Turkish War of Independence: Monuments, narratives and commemoration at the battlegrounds of Dumlupınar	0
The Founding of War & Society: A Personal Reminiscence	0
Soldiers, civilians, and supply: lessons from Sevastopol	0
Processing violence: the continuum between fear, doubt, and joy among German soldiers in Afghanistan	0
Correction	0
Two Perceptions of Süleyman’s ‘Magnificent’ Navy during the Later Italian Wars	0
The German Naval Intelligence Network in East Asia and Australia before the First World War	0
Chinese military history research in the past forty years	0

‘If you make the people run away, you will starve’: the military significance of refugees during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)	0
Hiroshima’s ongoing peacebuilding and beyond: how does this local initiative seek to extend to world peace?	0
Religion and Nationalism: Reform of Lamaism in Inner Mongolia by the Japanese	0
Sea routes, intelligence agents, and the social dynamics of the Sino-Korean maritime frontier during the Ming-Manchu conflict	0
Correction	0
Introduction: remobilisation within Porous polities: ex-combatants’ claims-making in post-colonial Indonesia, Vietnam and Mozambique	0
Biowarfare against the Nazis: the ethics, efficacy and consequences of a forgotten operation by the Czech resistance in the Second World War	0
The bishop’s ‘fine tact’: the ambiguity, ambivalence, and relationality of Catholic peacebuilding from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Flores, Indonesia during the Asia-Pacific War	0
Military welfare history: what is it and why should it be considered?	0
‘The grey everyday of guard duty’: tracing military boredom in field reports of Swedish military chaplains 1940–45	0
Coda: the experience of war beyond exceptionalism	0
Matters of culture and military structure: Australia’s army and the land forces of the British Commonwealth and the United States in the Second World War	0
The creation of the Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish press: indoctrination for fighting?	0
Renamobilised: former combatants and an armed opposition party in Mozambique	0
‘Playing war’: Norwegian soldiers’ experiences of fun and responsibility in Afghanistan	0
Under Allied command: the challenges of Greek army mobilisation in the First World War (June 1917–September 1918)	0
‘Barking up the pension tree’? Psychoneurosis and the Far Eastern Prisoners of War	0
‘Luchamos Por Honor’^#: Augusto C. Sandino’s Pursuit of Honour	0
Editor’s Note	0
Military welfare history in the classroom: converting research passions into lesson plans	0
The Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster	0
‘Cupid and the Anzacs’: law, marriage and divorce in First World War Australia	0
Between militia and retinue: the conscription of peasant-soldiers in early modern Transylvania (1541–71)	0
Fulda Gap: A board game, West German society, and a battle that never happened, 1975–85	0
The Botswana Defence Force’s Policy of Arms Procurement in the Late Cold War Period and beyond	0
International analysis of battlefield performance in the Austro-Prussian War, 1866–1870	0
Military mobilisation of the Nationalist coup leaders during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): the correlation between killing and recruitment	0
The Imperial Transformation of a Russian-Occupied Ottoman City during the First World War	0
Cultural mobilisation as a transnational phenomenon in the South African War of 1899–1902: a case study of Russian adolescents	0
Context matters: rescuing allied civilians interned in the japanese-controlled areas of China, 1944–1947	0
Conscription in the first modern Ottoman army in the context of state and society relations	0
Grand Narratives: Decolonisation and Its Wars	0
The making and taming of the veteran in 1950s Indonesia	0
Entertainment and fun in the service of survival: Theatre of the People’s Liberation in the battles of Neretva and Sutjeska	0
The nationalisation of war, the rise of psychology, and the creation of ‘spy fever’ in the British press	0
Agencies, temporalities, and spatialities in Hiroshima’s post-war reconstruction: a case of reflexive peacebuilding in the Anthropocene?	0
Domestic dimensions of a transnational problem: social welfare for veterans in Greece (1912–1940)	0
The Chinese diaspora in Chile and the solidarity movement to the homeland during the Second Sino-Japanese War	0
‘Enormous torment’: the First World War in Southern Kurdistan	0
The British Film Campaign in Spain During the First World War (1914–1918)	0
Guère franco-française : the nationalist right, civil war discourse and the 2021 tribunes des militaires	0
Moving and staying: wartime escapes in three connected colonies in South China, 1937–1945	0
Introduction to the special issue: war and fun: exploring the plurality of experiences and emotional articulations of warfare and soldiering	0
Of ‘Master’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ and Their Discontents: Early Modern European Military History	0
‘The Defenders, Protectors and Builders of Our State’: The Colonial Legacy of Union Civil War Commemorations in Kansas, 1870s–1910s	0
Grand Narratives and Gendered Wars and Societies	0
‘Now you see what we are up against’: bedouin and borderlands in the photography of John Bagot Glubb, 1930–1939	0
African Military Historiography	0
‘The fumes of treason darkened the skies of our homeland’: rebellion and suppression in the Turkish War of Independence	0
A Chinese military history: comparison, critique, and methodology ¹	0

Soldiers of a forgotten empire: American memory and the battle for Filipino veterans’ benefits	0
Gamblers in war: gambling crimes and social turmoil in wartime Shanghai (1937–40)	0
The league of curators: museums, internationalism, and war in 1930s Europe	0
Towards a Nanjing narrative of the Second World War in China: Navigating the stigma of an unspeakable past	0
Understanding the complexity of the ‘blood tax’: the Spanish conscription system	0
War Jokes and Humour in Besieged Sarajevo, Bosnia–Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995	0
Introduction: Photography, colonialism, and war: five exposures	0
Race and the History of the Modern US Military¹	0
Current Historiography on Eastern Europe during the First World War: A Review^*	0
Injured fighters: traumatisation and contention in post-colonial states	0
Picturing Africa and documenting war: soldiers’ photographs from East Africa, 1914–19	0
An American Civil War Master Narrative: Explaining Confederate Defeat	0
Colonial snapshots: roll film photography and imperial self-positioning in the Philippine–American War	0
War, Peace, and Narratives of European History since 1914	0
General Louis Botha’s Role in the South African War, 1899–1902	0
Anomalies in Collective Victimhood in Post-War Japan: ‘Hiroshima’ As a Victimisation Symbol for the Collective National Memory of War	0
Australian military historiography	0
Complaints and care for maritime prisoners of war in England during the Nine Years War, 1689–97	0
Forty Years On: Master Narratives and US Military History	0
The Soviet Union during the interwar period: military aid to China and Spain (1936–1941)	0
Wartime soldiers, civilian relations: Zimbabwean soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo war 1998–2002	0
Standard-bearers of internationalism? The politics and memory of Cuban International Brigade veterans of the Spanish Civil War	0
The balloon post during the siege of Paris, 1870–71	0
Activities of Borno Traditional Political and Religious Leaders in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970	0
Pacifying the Pindaris: Warfare and state building by the British in India, 1750–1830	0
A tale of two military missions: The Germans in the Ottoman Empire and the Americans in the Republic of Turkey	0
Women in Command: The Matildine War of 1141	0
Master narratives in military history: Europe 1789 to 1900	0
Turning a Disaster into Regenerative Strength: Hiroshima’s Strategy for Societal Peace in the Anthropocene	0
Revisiting British–India’s Military Historiography	0
Surviving Crisis: The Napoleonic Upheavals and the ‘Time of the French’ as Cultural Trauma in Prussia, 1806–1812	0
‘Keeping the wheels turning’: oil preparedness schemes as an economic defence strategy in Cold War Sweden	0
A place for laughs in Hell. Martínez de León’s cartoons: republican humour in the Spanish Civil War	0
From Great Captains to Common Grognards: research opportunities in Napoleonic military history	0
Evolving Grand Narratives: A Forty-Year Perspective	0
Metanarratives in Asian Military History	0
After the people were gone: rewilding Kočevje in the wake of the expulsion of Slovenia’s Gottscheer Germans, 1941-present	0
Economic War, Russia, and the Problem of the Post-War World in 1918	0
Peace, Politics, and Piety: Catholic Pilgrimage in Wartime Europe, 1939–1945	0
Reconstructing Hiroshima as a peace memorial city: local agency and identity-making in peacebuilding	0
Operation Buckshot: Churchill’s Forgotten Offensive against Rommel, March-May 1942	0