OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Conflict Management and Peace Science is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Undivine intervention: How social networks mediate the relationship between religious repression and political violence	19
More than monoliths: The gendered dynamics of support for torture in the United States	13
Morally opposed? A theory of public attitudes and emerging military technologies	11
Measuring state security relationships: The security position score	9
Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes	9
From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations	9
Does a patron state's hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?	9
Politically active dyads revisited: An update through 2014	9
Depoliticizing rebels: Government use of civilian trials during armed conflict	9
Economic development and revolutions. A cross-national investigation	8
Punishment and blame: How core beliefs affect support for the use of force in a nuclear crisis	8
When do leader backgrounds matter? Evidence from the President’s Daily Brief	8
The die is cast? The origins of territorial claims & their escalation to military hostilities	8
The limits of shame: UN shaming, NGO repression, and women's protests	7
Rebel network theory: The case of Moro Islamic Liberation Front	7
Do ethno-territorial rebels tolerate political competition? Power- and preference-based explanations	7
Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance	6
Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type	6
Protest without influence? A meso-level analysis of women's inclusion in civil resistance movements	6
Crisis bargaining, domestic politics and Russia's invasion of Ukraine	6
Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy	5
Remittances, terrorism, and democracy	5
Rainfall shocks and state repression: How rainfall shocks incentivize governments to commit human rights abuses	5
Life after exile: Introducing a new dataset on post-exile fate	5
Nuclear weapons and interstate conflict behavior: The moderating influence of civil–military relations	5

The conditions for war and peace in interstate crises: An Introduction to this special issue	4
If we cooperate together, we intervene together: Defense cooperation agreements and support to conflict parties	4
Introducing the new diplomatic visits with France dataset, 1950–2020	4
Rebel institutions and negotiated peace	4
Regional approaches to conflict prevention: The effectiveness of rhetorical and diplomatic tools	4
Securing guarantees: How nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments	4
Double standard: Chinese public opinion on the Hong Kong protests	4
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions	4
Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war	4
Endogenous military strategy and crisis bargaining	4
Exogenous factors and the crisis bargaining process	4
Treaty legalization, security interests, and ratification of multilateral disarmament treaties	4
Environmental pressures and pro-government militias: Evidence from the Philippines	4
Aid targeting in post-conflict Nepal	4
Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background	4
Price of nationalism: Evidence from cross-border shopping in Cyprus	4
The problem with accidental war	3
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream	3
Relative political capacity: A dataset to evaluate the performance of nations, 1960–2018	3
The human cost of war: An experimental study of Taiwanese attitudes towards war casualties	3
Market power politics, critical minerals, and conflict: Presidential address at the 2025 annual meeting of the peace science society, international	3
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation	3
Beyond deterrence: Uncertain stability in the nuclear era	3
Beyond body counts: Vietnam war ground combat data	3
Delegative peacebuilding: Explaining post-conflict selective violence	3
Assessing border walls’ varied impacts on terrorist group diffusion	3
Radicalizing alone: Are “lone wolves” idiosyncratic, political entrepreneurs or aggrieved avengers?	3
The implementation of truth commission recommendations: Exploring the ‘beyond words’ database for Latin America	3
Either with us or against us: The threat of rebel group fragmentation to demobilized rebels	3
Storms, floods, landslides and elections in India's growing metropolises: Hotbeds for political protest?	3
Aid for non-aggression	3
Using committee amendments to improve estimates of state foreign policy preferences	3
Hitting back or holding back in cyberspace: Experimental evidence regarding Americans’ responses to cyberattacks	3
How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement	2
Talking bodies: Hostage concessions in civil war	2
External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians	2
Do non-UN peacekeeping operations work in conjunction with UN peacekeeping troops to reduce civilian casualties?	2
Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries	2
Attention beyond the battlefield: Voters’ responses to foreign military investments	2
The harsh face of the empire by invitation: Coups in the US world order	2
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war	2
Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset	2
Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions	2
Ripe moments for terror attacks: Opportunity benefits–reputation tradeoff	2
The asymmetry of war support: Evidence from private donations to Ukraine	2
Rugged terrain, forest coverage, and insurgency in Myanmar	2
How reciprocal cooperation between international rivals shapes threat perceptions: Evidence from inter-Korean rapprochement in 2018	2
How exposure to wartime violence shapes conflict resolution preferences	2
Peacekeeping operations and shadow economy growth in host countries	2
Creating (with) community: The value of collaboration in peace Science	2

International virtue signaling: How female combatants shape state support for armed rebellion