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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel Successor Parties and Their Electoral Performance in the Balkans	33
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	22
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	15
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	14
Balancing Identity: The Sino-Soviet Split, Ontological Security, and North Korean Foreign Policy	13
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	12
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	11
Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization	10
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	9
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	9
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	8
Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime? Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring	8
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	8
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	8
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Oil and War: An Exchange	7
Norm Diffusion through US Military Training in Tunisia	7
US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security	7
Rethinking Pathways of Transnational Jihad: Evidence from Lebanese ISIS Recruits	6
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	5
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	5
Cyber Arms Transfer: Meaning, Limits, and Implications	5
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	5

Off the Menu: Post-1945 Norms and the End of War Declarations	5
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	5
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	5
Cyber Operations, Accommodative Signaling, and the De-Escalation of International Crises	5
Market Size and the Political Economy of European Defense	5
Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Budget Breaker? The Financial Cost of US Military Alliances	4
The Psychology of Overt and Covert Intervention	4
The Decline in Declarations of War: An Exchange	3
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	3
A Reputation versus Prioritization Trade-Off: Unpacking Allied Perceptions of US Extended Deterrence in Distant Regions	3
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	2
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Progressivism and Grand Strategy: An Exchange – The Author Replies	2
Partnership in Leadership: Why and How Do Leading Powers Extend Managerial Privileges to Junior Partners?	2
Cyber Signaling: Deeper Case Research Tells a Different Story	2
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	2
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering: Insincere Leaders, Framing, and Exploitation of Popular Grievances	2
Toward a Decolonial Cybersecurity: Interrogating the Racial-Epistemic Hierarchies That Constitute Cybersecurity Expertise	2
Competing Visions for US Grand Strategy in Cyberspace	2
How Central is Race to International Relations?	2
Minilateralism and Backlash in the Nuclear Security Summit: The Consequences of Nuclear Governance outside the IAEA	2
Logic of Choice: China’s Binding Strategies toward North Korea, 1965–1970	2
Patrons and Personnel: The Foreign Determinants of Military Recruitment Policies	2
Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland	2
Insurgent Recruitment Practices and Combat Effectiveness in Civil War: The Black September Conflict in Jordan	2
Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept	1
Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Co-Optation at the Creation: Leaders, Elite Consensus, and Postwar International Order	1
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order	1
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors	1
Naval Power, Merchant Fleets, and the Impact of Conflict on Trade	1
Imperial Relations? Hierarchy and Contemporary Base Politics	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
Estimating Alliance Costs: An Exchange	1
Tripwires and Alliance Reassurance: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Left of Liberal Internationalism: Grand Strategies within Progressive Foreign Policy Thought	1
Unpacking Russia’s Cyber-Incident Response	1
China and Hegemony: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	1
Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil–Interstate War Linkage	1
Lethal Targeting and Adaptation Failure in Terrorist Groups	1
Volk Theory: Prejudice, Racism, and German Foreign Policy Before and Under Hitler	1
Make Us Great Again: The Causes of Declinism in Major Powers	1
Reassurance and Deterrence in Asia	1

Nuclear Coercion, Crisis Bargaining, and The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict of 1969	1
Can Cyberattacks Reassure? Half Measures as a De-Escalation Strategy	1
From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and International Politics	1