OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Security Studies is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Intelligence Network of T. E. Lawrence	70
Searching For Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice	29
China and the Limits of Hypothetical Hegemony	17
Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other	16
Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting	16
Racism by Designation: Making Sense of Western States’ Nondesignation of White Supremacists as Terrorists	12
How Peacekeepers Fight: Assessing Combat Effectiveness in United Nations Peace Operations	12
Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory	12
Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism	11
Is Multi-Method Research More Convincing Than Single-Method Research? An Analysis of International Relations Journal Articles, 1980–2018	11
Drones and Offensive Advantage: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	10
What Enables or Constrains Mass Expulsion? A New Decision-Making Framework	10
Introducing the Special Issue on “Race and Security”	9
Birds of a Feather? Probing Cross-National Variation in Nuclear Inhibitions	9
Military Regimes and Resistance to Nuclear Weapons Development	8
Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy	8
Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race	7
Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil	7
International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique	7
How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators	7
How Women Shape the Course of War: Women’s Suffrage and the Election of 1916	7
Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse	6
Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States	6
Ex-Rebel Leaders and Strategies of Regime Survival in Côte d’Ivoire	6
Madman or Mad Genius? The International Benefits and Domestic Costs of the Madman Strategy	5

Three Approaches to the Study of Race and International Relations	5
Minding the Commitment Gap: Alliance Reassurance and the Image of the Imperial Presidency	5
Allies as Armaments: Explaining the Specialization of State Military Capabilities	4
Credible Surrogates: Outsourcing US Foreign Policy Appeals	4
Immunity Outsourcing in Atlantic Conquest and Extraction	4
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons	4
Masculinist Actionism: Gender and Strategic Change in US Cyber Strategy	4
Unscorable at 12: Technically Correct, but Misses the Mark	3
The Sense of Power and Foreign Policy Hawkishness: An Exchange – The Author Replies	3
Reassurance and Deterrence after Russia’s War against Ukraine	3
Hawks Become Us: The Sense of Power and Militant Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes	3
Cyber Operations and Signaling: An Exchange – The Authors Reply	3
Revisiting the Effectiveness of Nuclear Compellent Threats	3
Explaining Command Style	3