OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Security Studies 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	66
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	26
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	15
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	13
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting	12
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	11
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	11
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	11
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	10
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	9
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	9
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	9
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	9
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy	7
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	6
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	6
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	6
Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5

Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	4
Credible Surrogates: Outsourcing US Foreign Policy Appeals	4
Minding the Commitment Gap: Alliance Reassurance and the Image of the Imperial Presidency	4
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Explaining Command Style	2
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
How Central is Race to International Relations?	2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	2
Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	2
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
The Role of Law in Global Nuclear Politics: Opacity, Deflection, and Potential	1
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	1
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1
Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
How Does International Recognition of Governments Shape Post-Electoral Conflicts of Legitimacy?	1
Stealth Change: How the United States and the United Kingdom Embraced International Humanitarian Limits on Nuclear Use	1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Political Polarization and Political Violence	1
Full-Spectrum Propaganda in the Social Media Era	1
Strategy in the New Missile Age	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
Introduction: Law, Ethics, and Nuclear Weapons	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	1
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1

Neorealism Out of the Comfort Zone: Haudenosaunee’s Adaptation to European Conquest	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
Legitimacy and Hegemony in Late Imperial China	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1