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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	50
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	41
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	26
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	22
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	18
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	13
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	13
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	12
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	12
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	10
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	10
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	10
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	8
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	8
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	6
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	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
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	3
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	3
How Central is Race to International Relations?	3
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	2
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	2
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	2
War Debts and the Repayment Norm	2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust	2
Full-Spectrum Propaganda in the Social Media Era	1
Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
Correction	1
Legitimacy and Hegemony in Late Imperial China	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System	1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1
“Nothing Short of Murder”: How Leaders Can Diminish Military Capacities	1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict	1
Correction	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	1

Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes	1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	1
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions	1