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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Peacemakers or Iron Ladies? A Cross-National Study of Gender and International Conflict	21
Questioning More: RT, Outward-Facing Propaganda, and the Post-West World Order	20
Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel	18
The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict	12
Channeling Contraband: How States Shape International Smuggling Routes	9
The Influence of Sea Power on Politics: Domain- and Platform-Specific Attributes of Material Capabilities	9
Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence	9
The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI	8
Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age	7
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	7
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	7
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	6
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	6
Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology	6
Trivial Tripwires?: Military Capabilities and Alliance Reassurance	6
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	6
The Price of Protection: Explaining Success and Failure of US Alliance Burden-Sharing Pressure	5
The Blind Men and the Elephant: Comparing the Study of International Security Across Journals	5
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	5
Partnership in Leadership: Why and How Do Leading Powers Extend Managerial Privileges to Junior Partners?	5
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	5
Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland	5
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars	5
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	4
Strategies of Extended Deterrence: How States Provide the Security Umbrella	3

Primacy and Punishment: US Grand Strategy, Maritime Power, and Military Options to Manage Decline	3
The Obama Administration and Syrian Chemical Weapons: Deterrence, Compellence, and the Limits of the “Resolve plus Bombs” Formula	3
Clashes at Sea: Explaining the Onset, Militarization, and Resolution of Diplomatic Maritime Claims	3
Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil–Interstate War Linkage	3
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	3
The Effect of Aerial Bombardment on Insurgent Civilian Victimization	3
Conceptualizing Civil War Complexity	3
Nationalism, Threat, and Support for External Intervention: Evidence from Iraq	3
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	3
Perceptions of Leadership Importance: Evidence from the CIA’s President’s Daily Brief	2
The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition	2
Desert Shield of the Republic? A Realist Case for Abandoning the Middle East	2
Statement from the New Editor in Chief	2
Terror after the Caliphate: The Effect of ISIS Loss of Control over Population Centers on Patterns of Global Terrorism	2
Racial Hierarchy and Jurisdiction in U.S. Status of Forces Agreements	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great-Power Competition	2
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	2
Social Origins of Modern Terrorism, 1860–1945	2
All-In or All-Out: Why Insularity Pushes and Pulls American Grand Strategy to Extremes	2
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	2
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	2
Women Insurgents, Rebel Organization Structure, and Sustaining the Rebellion: The Case of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party	2
Strategic Intelligence and International Crisis Behavior	2
The Efficacy of Airpower in Counterinsurgency	2
The Durability of a Unipolar System: Lessons from East Asian History	2
Explaining Divergent Trends in Coups and Mutinies: The End of the Cold War and the Role of Military Agency	2
Rebels against Mines? Legitimacy and Restraint on Landmine Use in the Philippines	2
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors	2
Who Blinked? Performing Resolve (or Lack Thereof) in Face-to-Face Diplomacy	2
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Political Polarization and Political Violence	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
Knowledge Communities in US Foreign Policy Making: The American China Field and the End of Engagement with the PRC	1
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	1
Algorithmic Aversion? Experimental Evidence on the Elasticity of Public Attitudes to “Killer Robots”	1
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	1
Symbolic Amplification and Suboptimal Weapons Procurement: Explaining Turkey’s S-400 Program	1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
Realist Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Security Institutions	1
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	1
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	1
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	1
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	1
Barking Without Biting: Understanding Chinese Media Campaigns During Foreign Policy Disputes	1
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	1
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	1
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	1
To Buy a War but Sell the Peace? Mercenaries and Post-Civil War Stability	1

You're in the Army Now: The Politics of Cohesion During Military Integration in Sierra Leone	1
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	1