OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
More than monoliths: The gendered dynamics of support for torture in the United States	19
Morally opposed? A theory of public attitudes and emerging military technologies	14
Undivine intervention: How social networks mediate the relationship between religious repression and political violence	14
The duration of political imprisonment: Evidence from China	10
Does a patron state's hardline posture reassure the public in an allied state?	9
Depoliticizing rebels: Government use of civilian trials during armed conflict	9
Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes	9
Politically active dyads revisited: An update through 2014	8
A certain gamble: Institutional change, leader turnover, and their effect on rivalry termination	8
From participation to provision: How civil society secures procedural rights through peace negotiations	7
Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type	6
Rebel network theory: The case of Moro Islamic Liberation Front	6
Punishment and blame: How core beliefs affect support for the use of force in a nuclear crisis	6
The die is cast? The origins of territorial claims & their escalation to military hostilities	6
When do leader backgrounds matter? Evidence from the President’s Daily Brief	6
Measuring state security relationships: The security position score	6
Remittances, terrorism, and democracy	5
Rainfall shocks and state repression: How rainfall shocks incentivize governments to commit human rights abuses	5
Crisis bargaining, domestic politics and Russia's invasion of Ukraine	5
Unique offerings: Ideological competition and rebel governance	5
Life after exile: Introducing a new dataset on post-exile fate	5
The limits of shame: UN shaming, NGO repression, and women's protests	5
Environmental pressures and pro-government militias: Evidence from the Philippines	4
Aid targeting in post-conflict Nepal	4
The conditions for war and peace in interstate crises: An Introduction to this special issue	4

Nuclear weapons and interstate conflict behavior: The moderating influence of civil–military relations	4
If we cooperate together, we intervene together: Defense cooperation agreements and support to conflict parties	4
Double standard: Chinese public opinion on the Hong Kong protests	4
Judicial independence and refugee flights	4
Treaty legalization, security interests, and ratification of multilateral disarmament treaties	4
Hurting or healing? How conflict exposure and trauma (do not) shape support for truth commissions	4
Securing guarantees: How nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments	4
Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy	4
Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war	3
Female combatants and rebel group behaviour: Evidence from Nepal	3
Financial contributions to United Nations peacekeeping, 1990–2010: A new dataset	3
Assessing border walls’ varied impacts on terrorist group diffusion	3
Exogenous factors and the crisis bargaining process	3
Introducing the new diplomatic visits with France dataset, 1950–2020	3
Rebel institutions and negotiated peace	3
Using committee amendments to improve estimates of state foreign policy preferences	3
Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background	3
Endogenous military strategy and crisis bargaining	3
Radicalizing alone: Are “lone wolves” idiosyncratic, political entrepreneurs or aggrieved avengers?	3
Regional approaches to conflict prevention: The effectiveness of rhetorical and diplomatic tools	3
Aid for non-aggression	2
Measuring Chinese economic sanctions 1949–2020: Introducing the China TIES dataset	2
Relative political capacity: A dataset to evaluate the performance of nations, 1960–2018	2
Hitting back or holding back in cyberspace: Experimental evidence regarding Americans’ responses to cyberattacks	2
Beyond body counts: Vietnam war ground combat data	2
How exposure to wartime violence shapes conflict resolution preferences	2
Rugged terrain, forest coverage, and insurgency in Myanmar	2
How leader's type shapes the effect of nuclear latency on dispute involvement	2
Peacekeeping operations and shadow economy growth in host countries	2
Why gendered quantification trends are a problem: Post-traumatic growth arguments and the civil war malestream	2
The implementation of truth commission recommendations: Exploring the ‘beyond words’ database for Latin America	2
Beyond deterrence: Uncertain stability in the nuclear era	2
The harsh face of the empire by invitation: Coups in the US world order	2
`{peacesciencer}`: An R package for quantitative peace science research	2
How reciprocal cooperation between international rivals shapes threat perceptions: Evidence from inter-Korean rapprochement in 2018	2
Talking bodies: Hostage concessions in civil war	2
Delegative peacebuilding: Explaining post-conflict selective violence	2
Ethnic preferences, domestic audiences and military coalition formation	2
The problem with accidental war	2
The human cost of war: An experimental study of Taiwanese attitudes towards war casualties	2
Why incumbents perpetrate election violence during civil war	2
External intelligence assistance and the recipient government’s violence against civilians	1
Do non-UN peacekeeping operations work in conjunction with UN peacekeeping troops to reduce civilian casualties?	1
Human rights organizations and transitional justice agenda-setting: Evidence from peace agreement provisions	1
To sanction or not to sanction: Public attitudes on sanctioning human rights violations	1
Sticking it out: Instability, regime type, and personnel withdrawals from UN peacekeeping operations	1
Airpower and territorial control: Unpacking the NATO intervention in Libya	1
The scars of violence and repression on founding elections: Evidence from Spain	1
Ripe moments for terror attacks: Opportunity benefits–reputation tradeoff	1
International virtue signaling: How female combatants shape state support for armed rebellion	1

The asymmetry of war support: Evidence from private donations to Ukraine	1
Strategic partnerships in alliance politics: Introducing the Global Strategic Partnership dataset	1
Alliances, state preferences, and trade networks: The impact of United States sanctions on dual-use trade	1
A game of domestic imperatives: Audience costs and conflict avoidance	1
Trust, cooperation, and the tradeoffs of reciprocity	1
Lethal aid and human security: The effects of US security assistance on civilian harm in low- and middle-income countries	1
Creating (with) community: The value of collaboration in peace Science	1
Violence, co-optation, and postwar voting in Guatemala	1
States living in glasshouses …: Why fighting domestic insurgency changes how countries vote in the UN human rights council	1
Introduction to special issue: New research on leaders and peace science	1
School of influence: Human rights challenges in US foreign military training	1
A paradox of ethnic politics? Minority language recognition and political trust in an authoritarian setting	1
Attention beyond the battlefield: Voters’ responses to foreign military investments	1