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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Questioning More: RT, Outward-Facing Propaganda, and the Post-West World Order	30
Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel	26
Political Polarization and Political Violence	12
Control over Bodies and Territories: Insurgent Territorial Control and Sexual Violence	12
Trivial Tripwires?: Military Capabilities and Alliance Reassurance	12
Channeling Contraband: How States Shape International Smuggling Routes	10
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	9
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	9
The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI	9
Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland	8
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	8
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies: A Survey of Scholars	8
The Price of Protection: Explaining Success and Failure of US Alliance Burden-Sharing Pressure	8
Partnership in Leadership: Why and How Do Leading Powers Extend Managerial Privileges to Junior Partners?	7
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	7
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	7
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	7
Racial Hierarchy and Jurisdiction in U.S. Status of Forces Agreements	5
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	5
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	5
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	5
Strategies of Extended Deterrence: How States Provide the Security Umbrella	5
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	5
Symbolic Amplification and Suboptimal Weapons Procurement: Explaining Turkey’s S-400 Program	4
Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil–Interstate War Linkage	4

Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	4
Barking Without Biting: Understanding Chinese Media Campaigns During Foreign Policy Disputes	4
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad	4
Perceptions of Leadership Importance: Evidence from the CIA’s President’s Daily Brief	3
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	3
Terror after the Caliphate: The Effect of ISIS Loss of Control over Population Centers on Patterns of Global Terrorism	3
Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	3
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	3
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	3
Conceptualizing Civil War Complexity	3
Desert Shield of the Republic? A Realist Case for Abandoning the Middle East	3
The Effect of Aerial Bombardment on Insurgent Civilian Victimization	3
Who Blinked? Performing Resolve (or Lack Thereof) in Face-to-Face Diplomacy	3
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	2
The Efficacy of Airpower in Counterinsurgency	2
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	2
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	2
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	2
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange	2
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors	2
Social Origins of Modern Terrorism, 1860–1945	2
Knowledge Communities in US Foreign Policy Making: The American China Field and the End of Engagement with the PRC	2
Statement from the New Editor in Chief	2
Rebels against Mines? Legitimacy and Restraint on Landmine Use in the Philippines	2
Women Insurgents, Rebel Organization Structure, and Sustaining the Rebellion: The Case of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party	2
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	2
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	2
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	2
Brazil’s Foreign Policy and Security under Lula and Bolsonaro: Hierarchy, Racialization, and Diplomacy	2
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
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	1
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	1
China and the Logic of Illiberal Hegemony	1
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	1
Patrons and Personnel: The Foreign Determinants of Military Recruitment Policies	1
Was Airpower “Misapplied” in the Vietnam War? Reassessing Signaling in Operation Rolling Thunder	1
Algorithmic Aversion? Experimental Evidence on the Elasticity of Public Attitudes to “Killer Robots”	1
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	1
Accommodative Signaling in Cyberspace and the Role of Risk	1
How Central is Race to International Relations?	1
Will the Drone Always Get Through? Offensive Myths and Defensive Realities	1
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	1
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA	1
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	1
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	1
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	1
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	1
Nuclear Coercion, Crisis Bargaining, and The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict of 1969	1

China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century	1
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	1