Security Studies

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans41
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists38
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony21
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations18
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice15
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence14
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply12
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism11
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework11
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization10
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–20189
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development9
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring9
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions8
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race8
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”8
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits8
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 19167
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications7
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia7
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators7
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse6
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense6
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations5
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy5
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises5
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction4
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities4
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply3
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark3
The Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange3
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–19703
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine3
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise2
Heterogeneous Effects of Civil Wars on Social Trust2
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler2
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances2
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies2
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order2
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story2
How Central is Race to International Relations?2
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply2
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order2
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace2
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers1
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply1
State Formation, Warfare, and the Bronze Age State System1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade1
Fears of Revolution and International Cooperation:The Concert of Europe and the Transformation of European Politics1
Introduction: Waltzian Theory and the Return of Power Politics1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought1
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept1
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups1
War Debts and the Repayment Norm1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply1
Public Support for Power Grabs after Civil Conflict1
China’s Global Maritime Access: Alternatives to Overseas Military Bases in the Twenty-First Century1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response1
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange1
Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad1
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange1
Racial Bias and Public Support for US Drone Strikes1
Correction1
Who Is Getting Nuked? Nuclear Taboo, Adversary Types, and Atomic Dispositions1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia1
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